Alan Bergland
Education
- B.S., University of Oregon (Biology, with honors), 2004
- B.S., University of Oregon (Philosophy), 2004
- Ph.D., Brown University, 2010
- Postdoc, Stanford University, 2010-2015
Research Interests
The Bergland lab seeks to understand the evolutionary and ecological forces that maintain functional genetic variation in the genome. Current projects include the genetics and physiology of rapid adaptation over seasonal time scales in Drosophila, adaptive evolution through time and space of predator induced phenotypic plasticity in Daphnia, and supergene evolution in birds. We conduct this work using tools and techniques ranging from molecular and statistical genetics to population genomics to field ecology.
Representative Publications
Nunez JCB, Lenhart BL, Bangerter A, Murray CSM, Yu Y, Nystrom TL, Tern C, Erickson PA, Bergland AO. 2022. A cosmopolitan inversion drives seasonal adaptation in overwintering Drosophila. Genetics: 10.1093/genetics/iyad207
Porter RJ, Gutierrez G*, Barnard-Kubow KB, Bergland AO. 2022. Maternal control of spontaneous dormancy termination in Daphnia pulex. Hydrobiologia: 10.1007/s10750-023-05361-w
Yu Y & Bergland AO. 2022. Unique signals of clinal and seasonal allele frequency change at eQTLs in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution: 10.1111/evo.14617
Becker D, Barnard-Kubow K, Porter R, Edwards A, Beckerman A, Bergland AO. 2022. Adaptive phenotypic plasticity is under stabilizing selection in Daphnia. Nature Ecology and Evolution: 10.1038/s41559-022-01837-5
Barnard-Kubow K, Becker D, Murray C, Porter R, Gutierrez G†, Erickson P, Nunez JCB, Voss E, Suryamohan K, Ratan A Beckerman A, Bergland AO. 2022. Polygenic variation in sexual investment across an ephemerality gradient in Daphnia pulex. Molecular Biology and Evolution: 39(6):msac12
Kapun M*, Nunez JCB*, Bogaerts-Márquez M*, Murga-Moreno J*, Paris M*, Outten J, Coronado-Zamora M, Tern C, (+40 others), & Bergland AO. 2021. Drosophila Evolution over Space and Time (DEST) - A New Population Genomics Resource. Molecular Biology and Evolution: 10.1093/molbev/msab259
Machado H*, AO Bergland*, R Taylor, S Tilk, E Behrman, K Dyer, D Fabian, T Flatt, J Gonzalez, T Karasov, O Kozeretska, B Lazzaro, T Merritt, J Pool, K O'Brien, S Rajpurohit, P Roy, S Schaeffer, S Serga, P Schmidt, D Petrov. 2021. Broad geographic sampling reveals predictable and pervasive seasonal adaptation in Drosophila. eLife: 10: e67577 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.67577
Weller C, Tilk S, Rajpurohit S, Bergland AO. 2021. Accurate, ultra-low coverage genome reconstruction and association studies in Hybrid Swarm mapping populations. G3: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab062.
Erickson PA, Weller CA, Song DY†, Bangerter-Black A, Schmidt PS, Bergland AO. 2020. Unique genetic signatures of local adaptation over space and time for diapause, an ecologically relevant complex trait, in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Genetics: 16(11):e1009110