Levi Jeremiah Yant

I am absolutely thrilled to be able to devote the lion’s share of my time to discovering how evolution works. I particularly enjoy testing theory with new empirical data, and am increasingly branching out into a diversity of systems across the plant kingdom. 

My background is split between the Europe and the US, beginning with the study of Linguistics (BA, Classical Philology [Greek & Latin] and Comparative Literature [German] at Beloit College), followed by Virology (MSc at University of Wisconsin). I then jumped from virus evolution to plant evolution (PhD at Universität Tübingen/Max Planck for Developmental Biology), finally to Evolutionary Genomics (Postdoc and then Group Leader at Harvard University). I have lead a research group since 2015. 

Contact me if you are interested in joining our group: levi.yant [at] slu.se

We work on the genome dynamics of wild polyploids. And also some diploids (i.e. 'recovered polyploids').

Please see my lab group's page: Plant Genome Dynamics and Evolution

NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University 

PhD, Developmental Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

Master of Science, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison