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Maria C.
Rivera
Assistant Professor, VCU Department of Biology
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Office: Life Sciences
Building, Room 220
Office phone: (804) 828-7206
mcrivera@vcu.edu
Dr. Maria C.
Rivera obtained her BS and MS from the University Puerto Rico, Rio
Piedras and her PhD. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
She is a molecular biologist that specializes in computational
evolutionary biology and phylogenetics. The focus of her research is
to understand the origin and diversification of organisms within the
tree of life. This work has been in three main areas: 1) the
evolution of eukaryotes from prokaryotes, 2) the development of
algorithms for genome annotation and comparative genomic analyses,
and 3) the role of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in the evolution
of microbial genomes. |
