Jonathan B. Losos

Department of Biology
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
http://www.biology.wustl.edu/~lososlab/losos.html

Dr. Jonathan B. Losos is a professor in the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned his A.B. in biology at Harvard University and Ph.D. in zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a post-doctoral fellow at U.C. Davis's Center for Population Biology and before moving to St. Louis to join the faculty at Washington University where he was until recently the director of the Tyson Research Center and the Environmental Studies Program.

In 1991 Dr. Losos received the Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution. He currently serves on the Science Advisory Board for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent).

Dr. Losos studies evolutionary diversification, combining field studies of habitat use and behavior, laboratory studies of functional capabilities, and experimental studies of competition and evolutionary adaptation in natural populations. In addition, collaboration with Allan Larson's laboratory allows Losos' lab to study questions of phylogeny and macroevolution. The focal animals for these studies are lizards.