Joanna L. Kelley PhD

Joanna is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University. Her research focuses on the genomic basis of adaptation, with a special emphasis on extreme environments. Joanna is a faculty advisor from the College of Arts and Sciences to the to the WSU Spokane Genomics Core. She is affiliated faculty to the WSU Data Analytics BS degree program. She is a member of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE).

Joanna received her AB in Mathematics and Biology from Brown University. She received her PhD in Genome Sciences from University of Washington with advisor Willie Swanson and held postdoctoral positions at University of Chicago in Human Genetics and at Stanford University in the Department of Genetics.