Alex Buerkle
Evolutionary Genetics
Computational Biology
buerkle@uwyo.edu PGP public key (CBE4A912)


Through May 2022 I was a Professor in the Department of Botany and a faculty member in the Program in Ecology. I directed the Data Science Center and the Genome Technologies Laboratory at UW. In May 2022 I will move to employment at Gencove, while maintaining a relationship with UW.
Education
- B.A., Honors Biology, University of Missouri, 1990
- B.A., German, University of Missouri, 1990
- Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Indiana University, 1997
Courses previously taught at the University of Wyoming
- Population Genetics (–2021)
- Computational Biology (–2022)
- Computational Biology Practicum (–2020)
- Evolutionary Biology (2006–2014)
- Ecological Genetics (fall 2008)
- Perl and UNIX Essentials (fall 2008)
Short courses and workshops
- Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics, Český Krumlov, Czech Republic. (2016 edition, 2020 edition)
- Bioinformatics for Adaptation Genomics (B@G3 2017), 2017 in Weggis, Switzerland.
- Population Genomics for Nonmodel Taxa – includes video of all lectures from the two-day workshop (sponsored by the AGA and held at Cornell University, 2013)
- Bayesian Models for Population Genomics (Lausanne, Switzerland, 2012)