Robert C. Jadin

My name is Dr. Robert C. Jadin and I am a lecturer and organismal biologist in the department of biology at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. My area of specialty is biodiversity informatics, herpetology, and systematics and I typically work on snakes. More specifically, my research encompasses bioinformatic and comparative approaches to address evolutionary and biodiversity questions about species relationships, distributions, adaptations, and conservation implications (see C.V.). In my lab we generate original data and utilize bioinformatic tools and databases to: 1) investigate species relationships and biodiversity of a variety of taxonomic groups (e.g. snakes, platyhelminths, slugs, fish, amphibians); 2) identify patterns and processes of character evolution and adaptations of anatomical structures (e.g. hemipenis and external morphology, body size) across macroevolutionary time scales; 3) improve phylogenetic inference through increased understanding of morphological and molecular evolution (e.g. impact of missing data on analyses, total evidence phylogenetics); and 4) revise zoological taxonomy using the most thorough and advanced methods in systematics (i.e. integrative taxonomy).