Lynette Strickland

Lynette Strickland is an Assistant Professor in the biology department at Boston University and Principle Investigator at the Cassidine Ecology Evolutionary Genomics Lab. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute PreDoctoral Fellow. She received her B.S. in Marine Biology from Texas A&M. Her research, focusing on how ecological and genomic factors shape a naturally-occurring color polymorphism in Neotropical beetles, has been published in journals such as Heredity and Evolutionary Biology. She also has published perspective pieces and commentaries on the need for inclusion of scientists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color in STEM fields in journals such as Science and Nature Ecology & Evolution.