Biodiversity is a concept that encompasses the variation of life on Earth, including variety within species, between species, and among ecological communities and ecosystems. Biodiversity generally refers to efforts to discover, understand, and protect the variety of life on Earth.
The University of Michigan Biodiversity Portal is envisioned as a way to make the rich and extensive biodiversity resources at the University of Michigan available through a single online entry point.
FEATURED PARTICIPATING UNIT::
University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
The University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology is a research and teaching museum dedicated to discovering the history of life through geological time.
FEATURED RESEARCH::
Noah A. Rosenberg
Our group studies problems in evolutionary biology and human genetics through a combination of mathematical modeling, computer simulations, development of statistical methods, and inference from population-genetic data.
Currently we are focusing in three areas:
(1) Human genetic variation, and inferring human genetic history from genome-wide microsatellite, insertion/deletion, and single-nucleotide polymorphisms. We are also interested in how distributions of complex genetic diseases across populations have arisen from human evolutionary history, and in using evolutionary approaches to inform the development of statistical approaches for identifying disease genes.
