Rachel K. Skinner
Hello! Thank you for visiting my page. I recently completed my PhD in Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and am currently working as a post-doctoral research assistant at Purdue University. I use next-generation sequencing and phylogenomic analysis to understand insect evolution. I am also interested in comparative and functional genomics. Right now, I am working primarily on thrips, but I enjoy using bioinformatic techniques to examine genomic data for diverse insects.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Below are links to events at which I will be presenting or which may be of interest to other entomologists.
Entomological Society of America Virtual Meeting
11-25 November 2020, On-Demand Content
RECENT ARTICLES
South, E.J., Skinner, R.K. et al. 2021. A New Family of Stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera), Kathroperlidae, fam. n., with a
Phylogenomic Analysis of the Paraperlinae (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae). Insect Sytematics and Diversity.
https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixab014
South, E.J., Skinner, R.K., et al. 2021. Phylogenomics of the North American Plecoptera. Systematic Entomology.
https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12462
Skinner et al. 2019. Phylogenomics of Auchenorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera) using transcriptomes: examining controversial
relationships via degeneracy coding and interrogation of gene conflict. Systematic Entomology.
https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12381
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