Alexa Sadier

Principal Investigator

I am an evolutionary developmental biologist. My main interest is to understand how organisms evolve and diversify in various environments using integrative approaches. More specifically, my research aims to answers the following questions: How do novelties originate from conserved genomic and developmental programs? How do biological and developmental constraints limit or facilitate the diversification of phenotypes? How do organisms escape these constraints during adaptive radiations? To study these questions, we use the hyperdiverse radiation of bats as a model system, and more largely mammals and apply our findings to evolution of life on Earth and beyond.