The Hill Lab
Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University
Researching bird coloration, sexual selection, and speciation from a mitonuclear perspective
About
The Hill Lab is an integrative research program investigating the function and evolution of animal ornamentation. An emerging interest for the lab group is the co-adaptation and co-evolution of mitonuclear elements within eukaryotes. A consideration of mitonuclear processes holds promise to unite under one explanatory umbrella the evolution of sex, sexual selection, speciation, and adaptation.
Recent News
Doctoral student Matt Powers wins deptartment Grad Teaching Award
Cover of Science Magazine
The genetic basis of sexual dichromatism
Ryan Weaver is awarded prestigious NSF PRFP Postdoc at University Texas at Austin
Dr. Hill named Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, or AAAS, announced that both Geoffrey Hill, professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, and J. V. Ortiz, professor in the Department of Chemistry, have been named Fellows of AAAS...
The Auburn MitoMobile makes its maiden voyage
Auburn’s new mobile mitochondria lab—launching today to Moscow, Idaho—will allow researchers to travel the country to study bioenergetics, studying the difference in energy sources among certain animals and humans and ultimately pinpointing where they believe the answer to their question lies—our mitochondria...