Matthew Sasaki

MARINE BIOLOGIST & EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGIST

I am a marine biologist, oceanographer and evolutionary ecologist studying how populations of marine organisms adapt to temperature over various spatial and temporal scales. As an NSF Ocean Sciences postdoc fellow, I’m working with Dr. Melissa Pespeni at the University of Vermont to examine the underlying genomic bases of spatiotemporal patterns in thermal adaptation. Previously, I worked with Dr. Hans Dam at the University of Connecticut on a range of projects examining how genetic differentiation and phenotypic plasticity contribute to patterns in the thermal limits of marine copepods, and the interactions between thermal adaptation and the trophic ecology of omnivorous copepods.