Dr. Keith A. Crandall, PhD

Brigham Young University

Taxonomic Focus: Crabs

Address: 675 WIDB Provo, UT 84602, USA
Phone: 1 (801) 422-3495
E-mail: Keith_Crandall@byu.edu

Research:

The Crandall Lab performs research in population genetics, evolutionary biology, systematics, and bioinformatics. We perform both methodological studies of phylogenetic and population genetic techniques as well as software development of methods for such inferences. We also apply these methods to ask questions concerning the conservation, evolution, and systematics of various organisms focusing on the Crustacea. We also apply such methods to the study of infectious diseases with an emphasis on HIV and Neisseria.

Related Publications:

Rudolph, E. H. and K. A. Crandall. 2005. A new species of burrowing crayfish Virilastacus rucapihuelensis (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from southern Chile. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 118(4):765-776.

Porter, M. L., M. Perez-Losada, and K. A. Crandall. 2005. Model based multi-locus estimation of Decapod phylogeny and divergence times. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37:355-367.

Crandall, K. A. and J. Buhay. 2004. Genomic databases and the Tree of Life. Science 306:1144-1145.

Pearse, D. E., and K. A. Crandall. 2004. Beyond FST: Analysis of population genetic data for conservation. Conservation Genetics 5(5):585-602.

Pérez-Losada, M., G. Bond-Buckup, C. G. Jara, and K. A. Crandall. 2004. Molecular systematics and biogeography of the Southern South American freshwater "crabs" Aegla (Decapoda: Anomura: Aeglidae) using multiple heuristic tree search approaches. Systematic Biology 53(5):767-780.

Agapow, P.-M., O. R. P. Bininda-Emonds, K. A. Crandall, J. L. Gittleman, G. M. Mace, J. C. Marshall, and A. Purvis. 2004. The impact of species concept on biodiversity studies. Quarterly Review of Biology 79(2):161-179.

Jara, C. G., M. Pérez-Losada, and K. A. Crandall. 2003. Aegla occidentalis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Aeglidae), a new species of freshwater crab from the Nahuelbuta Coastal Range, Chile. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116(4):933-942.

Pérez-Losada, M., and K. A. Crandall. 2003. Can taxonomic richness be used as a surrogate for phylogenetic distinctness indices for ranking areas for conservation? Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 26:77-84.

Pérez-Losada, M., C. G. Jara, G. Bond-Buckup, M. L. Porter and K. A. Crandall. 2002. Anomuran phylogenetic relationships: on the taxonomic positioning of Aeglidae freshwater crabs. Journal of Crustacean Biology 22(3):670-676.

Pérez-Losada, M., C. G. Jara, G. Bond-Buckup and K. A. Crandall. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships maong the species of Aegla (Anomura: Aeglidae) freshwater crabs from Chile. Journal of Crustacean Biology 22(2):304-313.

Pérez-Losada, M., C. G. Jara, G. Bond-Buckup and K. A. Crandall. 2002. Conservation phylogenetics of Chilean freshwater crabs Aegla (Anomura, Aeglidae): Assigining priorities for aquatic habitat protection. Biological Conservation 105:345-353.

Crandall, K. A., Fetzner, J. W., Jr., Jara, C. G. and Buckup, L. 2000. On the phylogenetic positioning of the South American freshwater crayfish genera (Decapoda: Parastacidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 20:530-540.

Crandall, K. A., Bininda-Emonds, O. R. P., Mace, G. M. and Wayne, R. K. 2000. Considering evolutionary processes in conservation biology: returning to the original meaning of "evolutionarily significant units". Trends in Ecology and Evolution: 15(7):290-295.

Academic Background:

BA (’87), Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI in Mathematics and Biology
MA (’93), Washington University, St. Louis, MO in Statistics
PhD (’00), Washington University, St. Louis, MO in Biology and Biomedical Sciences as a member of the Population and Evolutionary Biology Program
Postdoc (’93–’96), University of Texas, Austin, TX
Professor of Biology in the Departments of Integrative Biology and Microbiology & Molecular Biology at Brigham Young University (’96–present)

Biography:

Dr. Crandall served as a Peace Corp Volunteer in Puyo, Ecuador and was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas. He is now in his 11th year on the faculty at BYU. Dr. Crandall has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, one book, and has received over $16 million in grant funds. He has received numerous academic awards including the Alfred P. Sloan Young Investigator Award, the National Science Foundation Career Award, the National Institutes of Health James A. Shannon Director's Award, and a Fulbright Scholar Award to Oxford University.

Website:

Personal: http://lifesciences.byu.edu/home/FacStaff?ID=172
Lab: http://biology.byu.edu/Faculty/kac/crandall_lab/