Molly Schumer

Schumer completed her Bachelor of Arts in 2009 at Reed College, earning Phi Beta Kappa.{{Cite web|title=REED COLLEGE Renn lab members|url=https://www.reed.edu/biology/professors/srenn/pages/research/Renn_members.html|access-date=2021-01-11|website=www.reed.edu}}{{Cite web|last=alan|title=Alumni News from Reed Magazine, June '11 {{!}} Chemistry News|url=https://blogs.reed.edu/chemistry_news/2012/01/alumni-news-from-reed-magazine-june-11/|access-date=2021-01-11|language=en-US}} She went on to pursue her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University (jointly supervised by Peter Andolfatto and Gil Rosenthal), finishing in February 2016.{{Cite web|last=ORCID|title=Molly Schumer (0000-0002-2075-5668)|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2075-5668|access-date=2021-01-11|website=orcid.org|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Hybrids, Hybrids Everywhere|url=https://hms.harvard.edu/news/hybrids-hybrids-everywhere|access-date=2021-01-11|website=hms.harvard.edu|language=en}}

After her PhD, Schumer worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University with Molly Przeworski before joining the Harvard Society of Fellows in July 2016, where she worked in the lab of David Reich.{{Cite web|title=Dobzhansky Prize|url=https://www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display/2017/7/3/dobzhansky-prize/|access-date=2021-01-11|website=www.evolutionsociety.org|language=en}} She became a Hanna H. Grey Fellow at HHMI in 2017, and was hired for her current assistant professorship at Stanford University in 2019.

Schumer's lab investigates biological hybrids and population genetics. Model organisms used in the lab are primarily fish and include the Gila topminnow, Xiphophorus (swordtail), and Julidochromis.{{Cite web|date=2018-01-12|title=Publications|url=https://schumerlab.com/about/|access-date=2021-01-24|website=Schumer lab|language=en}}

Schumer has authored or co-authored multiple publications that have been cited 100 or more times.{{Cite web|title=Molly Schumer|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=sxvgFxwAAAAJ|access-date=2021-01-24|website=scholar.google.com}} As of January 2021, these include:

• "How common is homoploid hybrid speciation?" Evolution.{{Cite journal|last1=Schumer|first1=Molly|last2=Rosenthal|first2=Gil G.|last3=Andolfatto|first3=Peter|title=How Common is Homoploid Hybrid Speciation?|date=2014-04-13|journal=Evolution|volume=68|issue=6|pages=1553–1560|doi=10.1111/evo.12399|pmid=24620775|issn=0014-3820|doi-access=}}
• "Parallel molecular evolution in an herbivore community," Science.{{Cite journal|last1=Zhen|first1=Y.|last2=Aardema|first2=M. L.|last3=Medina|first3=E. M.|last4=Schumer|first4=M.|last5=Andolfatto|first5=P.|date=2012-09-28|title=Parallel Molecular Evolution in an Herbivore Community|url= |journal=Science|language=en|volume=337|issue=6102|pages=1634–1637|doi=10.1126/science.1226630|issn=0036-8075|pmc=3770729|pmid=23019645}}
• "Phylogenomics reveals extensive reticulate evolution in Xiphophorus fishes," Evolution.{{Cite journal|last1=Cui|first1=Rongfeng|last2=Schumer|first2=Molly|last3=Kruesi|first3=Karla|last4=Walter|first4=Ronald|last5=Andolfatto|first5=Peter|last6=Rosenthal|first6=Gil G.|title=Phylogenomics Reveals Extensive Reticulate Evolution Inxiphophorusfishes|date=2013-04-04|journal=Evolution|volume=67|issue=8|pages=2166–2179|doi=10.1111/evo.12099|pmid=23888843|issn=0014-3820|doi-access=}}
• "Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes," Science.{{Cite journal|last1=Schumer|first1=Molly|last2=Xu|first2=Chenling|last3=Powell|first3=Daniel L.|last4=Durvasula|first4=Arun|last5=Skov|first5=Laurits|last6=Holland|first6=Chris|last7=Sankararaman|first7=Sriram|last8=Andolfatto|first8=Peter|last9=Rosenthal|first9=Gil G.|date=2017-11-01|title=Natural selection interacts with the local recombination rate to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/212407|access-date=2021-01-24|doi=10.1101/212407|s2cid=89742595 }}
• "A serine cluster mediates BMAL1-dependent CLOCK phosphorylation and degradation," Cell Cycle.{{Cite journal|last1=Spengler|first1=Mary L.|last2=Kuropatwinski|first2=Karen K.|last3=Schumer|first3=Molly|last4=Antoch|first4=Marina|date=2009-12-15|title=A serine cluster mediates BMAL1-dependent CLOCK phosphorylation and degradation|journal=Cell Cycle|volume=8|issue=24|pages=4138–4146|doi=10.4161/cc.8.24.10273|pmid=19946213|pmc=4073639|issn=1538-4101|doi-access=free}}

Schumer won a 2019 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator award from the Genetics Society of America and was named the 2018 Rising Star in Evolutionary Biology by the Atwood colloquium.{{Cite web|date=2019-10-10|title=2019 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award Winners Announced|url=https://genestogenomes.org/2019-rosalind-franklin-young-investigator-award-winners-announced/|access-date=2021-01-11|website=Genes to Genomes}}{{Cite web|title=EEB Annual Atwood Colloquium|url=https://eeb.utoronto.ca/event/eeb-annual-atwood-colloquium/|access-date=2021-01-11|website=Ecology & Evolutionary Biology|language=en-CA}} She has received many other awards and honors, including:

• Milton Fund Awardee, Harvard University{{Cite journal|last1=Schumer|first1=Molly|last2=Rosenthal|first2=Gil G.|last3=Andolfatto|first3=Peter|date=April 2018|title=What do we mean when we talk about hybrid speciation?|journal=Heredity|volume=120|issue=4|pages=379–382|doi=10.1038/s41437-017-0036-z|issn=0018-067X|pmc=5842215|pmid=29302049}}
• Women in Science Fellow, L'Oréal USA (2017){{Cite web|title=Awards & Recognition: November 2017|url=https://hms.harvard.edu/news/awards-recognition-november-2017|access-date=2021-01-11|website=hms.harvard.edu|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Five Female Biologists, Engineers and Physicists Receive L'Oréal Fellowships {{!}} American Association for the Advancement of Science|url=https://www.aaas.org/news/five-female-biologists-engineers-and-physicists-receive-loreal-fellowships|access-date=2021-01-11|website=www.aaas.org|language=en}}
• Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize, Society for the Study of Evolution (2017)
• Walbridge Award, Princeton Environmental Institute (2013){{Cite web|title=Four Graduate Students Receive PEI Walbridge Fund Awards|url=https://environment.princeton.edu/news/four-graduate-students-receive-pei-walbridge-fund-awards-2/|access-date=2021-01-11|website=High Meadows Environmental Institute|language=en-US}}
• Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP), National Science Foundation (2011-2014)
• Goldwater Scholarship (2007){{Cite web|title=2007 Scholars List {{!}} Barry Goldwater|url=https://goldwater.scholarsapply.org/2007-scholars/|access-date=2021-01-11|website=goldwater.scholarsapply.org}}

• [https://schumerlab.com/ Official website]

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