Mohamed A. F. Noor
Professor of Biology
Education
Ph.D., The University of Chicago 1996
B.S., College of William and Mary 1992
Noor, Mohamed A. F. Live Long and Evolve What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Evolution, Genetics, and Life on Other Worlds. Princeton University Press, 2018.
Noor, Mohamed A. F. You're Hired! Now What? Sinauer Associates Incorporated, 2012.
McDermott, S., and M. Noor. “Hybrid Sterility.” In Brenner’s Encyclopedia of Genetics: Second Edition, 579–81, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-374984-0.00752-X. Full Text
Korunes, Katharine L., Russell B. Myers, Ryan Hardy, and Mohamed A. F. Noor. “PseudoBase: A genomic visualization and exploration resource for the Drosophila pseudoobscura subgroup.” Fly, December 15, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/19336934.2020.1864201. Full Text
Samuk, Kieran, Brenda Manzano-Winkler, Kathryn R. Ritz, and Mohamed A. F. Noor. “Natural Selection Shapes Variation in Genome-wide Recombination Rate in Drosophila pseudoobscura.” Current Biology : Cb 30, no. 8 (April 9, 2020): 1517-1528.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.053. Full Text
Korunes, Katharine L., and Mohamed A. F. Noor. “Pervasive gene conversion in chromosomal inversion heterozygotes.” Molecular Ecology 28, no. 6 (March 2019): 1302–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14921. Full Text
Ballinger, Mallory A., and Mohamed A. F. Noor. “Are Lethal Alleles Too Abundant in Humans?” Trends in Genetics : Tig 34, no. 2 (February 2018): 87–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2017.12.013. Full Text
Ravinet, M., R. Faria, R. K. Butlin, J. Galindo, N. Bierne, M. Rafajlović, M. A. F. Noor, B. Mehlig, and A. M. Westram. “Interpreting the genomic landscape of speciation: a road map for finding barriers to gene flow.” Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30, no. 8 (August 2017): 1450–77. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13047. Full Text
Ritz, Kathryn R., Mohamed A. F. Noor, and Nadia D. Singh. “Variation in Recombination Rate: Adaptive or Not?” Trends in Genetics : Tig 33, no. 5 (May 2017): 364–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2017.03.003. Full Text
Manzano-Winkler, Brenda, Alexander J. Hish, Emily K. Aarons, and Mohamed A. F. Noor. “Reproductive interference by male Drosophila subobscura on female D. persimilis: A laboratory experiment.” Ecology and Evolution 7, no. 7 (April 2017): 2268–72. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2855. Full Text
Korunes, Katharine L., and Mohamed A. F. Noor. “Gene conversion and linkage: effects on genome evolution and speciation.” Molecular Ecology 26, no. 1 (January 2017): 351–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13736. Full Text
Mittleman, Briana E., Brenda Manzano-Winkler, Julianne B. Hall, Katharine L. Korunes, and Mohamed A. F. Noor. “The large X-effect on secondary sexual characters and the genetics of variation in sex comb tooth number in Drosophila subobscura.” Ecology and Evolution 7, no. 2 (January 2017): 533–40. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2634. Full Text
Noor, Mohamed A. F. “The (R)Evolution is here!.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 71, no. 1 (January 2017): 4–5. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13131. Full Text
Pages
Selected Grants
Genetics and evolution of lethal alleles in Drosophila awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2021 to 2023
Collaborative Research: Reversing evolution to understand the genetic basis of species divergence awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2021
SG: An experimental test of the role of chromosomal inversions in adaptive evolution awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2020
EAGER: Test for local adaptation of recombination rate awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2019
Fine-scale Recombination, Variation, Divergence, and Codon Bias in Drosophila awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2009 to 2015
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Role of Mating System in Sperm Competition and Protein Evolution in /Agelaius/ Blackbirds awarded by National Science Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator). 2011 to 2014
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Epigenetic Regulation of Meiotic Recombination awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2012 to 2014
Workshop for Graduate Students on Communicating Science awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2012
Genetics of Speciation in Drosophila Pseudoobscura awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2007 to 2012
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Male-mediated effects on female germline recombination rates awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2009 to 2011