Dr. Joanna Griffiths
Post-Doctoral Scholar
email: jsgriffiths@ucdavis.edu

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Joanna Griffiths (personal website) is a postdoctoral researcher (co-advised by Dr. Andrew Whitehead). Before joining the lab, she received her PhD at Louisiana State University with Dr. Morgan Kelly. During her PhD, Joanna worked on three species of marine invertebrates (corals, oysters, and copepods) to determine their evolutionary responses to climate change. At UC Davis, she is using quantitative genetics and physiology to explore the mechanistic basis of variation in thermal tolerance of hatchery-reared and wild Delta smelt, a critically endangered fish.

Publications:

Griffiths JS, Johnson KM, Kelly MW. 2021. Evolutionary Change in the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica,
Following Low Salinity Exposure. Integrative and Comparative Biology. icab185. DOI.

Griffiths JS, Johnson KM, Sirovy KA, Yeats MS, Pan FTC, La Peyre JF, Kelly MW. 2021. Transgenerational plasticity and the capacity to adapt to low salinity in the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 288: 20203118. DOI.

MW Kelly, Griffiths JS. 2021. Selection experiments in the sea: What can experimental evolution tell us about how marine life will respond to climate change? Biological Bulletin. DOI.

Griffiths JS, Kawji Y, Kelly MW. 2020. An experimental test of adaptive introgression in locally adapted populations of splash pool copepods. Mol Biol and Evol. 38(4):1306-1316. *Open Access. DOI.

Griffiths JS, Pan T‐CF, Kelly MW. (2019) Differential responses to ocean acidification between populations of Balanophyllia elegans corals from high and low upwelling environments. Mol Ecol. 00:1–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15050