Faculty

Rodney J. Dyer
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Missouri-Saint Louis (2002)
rjdyer@vcu.edu
http://dyerlab.bio.vcu.edu

Office room: 349
Office phone: (804) 828-0874

Lab room: 347
Lab phone: (804) 828-0837

Research interests:
Population genetics, biogeography, statistical and mathematical modeling, graph theory, cluster computing. Dr. Rodney Dyer also is currently researching the application of graph-theoretic approaches to understanding population genetic processes; the effects of post-pleistocene range expansion on Sonoran desert flora and associated insect herbivores; connecting phenotype-genotype maps in globally distributed populations of invasive Setaria species; modeling and experimentally testing contemporary patterns of pollen movement in forest ecosystems.

Dr. Rodney Dyer received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri – Saint Louis in 2002. Dyer studies the spatial distribution of intra-specific genetic variation in natural populations. Using ecological and evolutionary modeling techniques, DNA-based genetic markers, and field experiments, Dyer's research seeks to understand the basic question, “What factors influence the movement of genes across a landscape?”