My full CV can be found here , and a short form is below.
Ph.D., Horticulture and Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Michigan State University (2022) Advisors: Patrick Edger & Robert VanBuren
Dissertation: Subgenome Dominance and Genome Evolution in Allopolyploids
B.S., Biological Sciences (Cum laude with University honors), University of Missouri (2016)
B.A., Philosophy (Cum laude with University honors), University of Missouri
National Science Foundation Plant Genome Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, $216,000 (2022-2025)
Bukovac Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Michigan State University Department of Horticulture (2022)
University Distinguished Fellowship, Michigan State University, $80,000 (2017-2022)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, $138,000 (2016-2021)
Fulbright US Student Award, Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, $14,389 (2016-2017)
Young Botanist of the Year Award, Botanical Society of America (2016)
Kevin Bird (2024) Integrating genomics and networks to reveal function and evolution of plant genomes, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Kevin Bird (2024) Harnessing evolutionary genomics for crop improvement. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Kevin Bird (2024) Pangenomic analyses reveal structural and gene-content variation in the allohexaploid biofuel crop Camelina sativa. 31st Plant and Animal Genomes Conference
Kevin Bird (2024) Misinterpretations of admixture regression in the study of group differences. Invited presentation for symposium Undermining the production of race science, American Association of Biological Anthropologists 2024 annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA
Kevin Bird (2023) Expression response to homoeologous exchange show signs of dosage constraint and dosage constraint of biased homoeologs differs between subgenomes. 30th Plant and Animal Genomes Conference
Kevin Bird (2022) Gene dosage constraints affect the transcriptional response to allopolyploidy and homoeologous exchange in resynthesized Brassica napus. Plant Genomes Online 2022
Kevin Bird (2022) Anti-racist genomics: responding to scientific racism in the 21st century. Invited presentation for symposium Disrupting Genomics: Bringing Critical and Theoretical Approaches into Practice, American Association of Biological Anthropologists 2022 annual meeting, Denver, CO
Kevin Bird (2022) The mismeasure of genes: genetics and scientific racism in the 21st. Harvard FXB Center for Health & Human Rights seminar. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Kevin Bird (2022) Evolutionary impacts of genomic structural variation. Center for Population Biology seminar series, University of California Davis, Davis CA
Kevin Bird (2020) The mismeasure of genes: debunking scientific racism with evolutionary genomic analysis. MSU Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior Program graduate student colloquium, East Lansing, MI
Kevin Bird, Chad Niederhuth, Zhiyong Xiong, J. Chris Pires, Robert Van Buren, Patrick Edger (2019) Replaying the evolutionary tape with synthetic polyploids to investigate subgenome dominance. 5th Conference on Plant Genome Evolution, Elsevier, Sitges Spain
Kevin Bird, Chad Niederhuth, Zhiyong Xiong, J. Chris Pires, Robert Van Buren, Patrick Edger (2019) Replaying the evolutionary tape in synthetic Brassica napus polyploids: How deterministic is subgenome dominance? Symposium on Evolution and Core Processes of Gene Expression, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, East Lansing, MI
Kevin Bird,Robert Van Buren, Joshua Puzey, Patrick Edger (2018) The Causes and Consequences of Subgenome Dominance in Hybrids and Recent Polyploids. Botany 2018, Rochester, MN
Kevin Bird, Hong An, Elodie Gazave, Michael Gore, J. Chris Pires, Larry Robertson and Joanne Labate (2016) Association Mapping and Population Genetics of the Vegetable Crop Brassica rapa. Botany 2016, Savannah, GA
Kevin Bird (2022) Genomes in flux—Genomic rearrangements, subgenome dominance, and gene dosage balance constraints in resynthesized Brassica napus. Biology of Genomes 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Kevin Bird, Sarah Turner, Alexander Lipka, Timothy Beissinger, Ruthie Angelovici (2018) Subset-based genomic prediction provides insights into the genetic architecture of free amino acid levels in dry Arabidopsis thaliana seeds. Plant Biology 2018, Montreal, Quebec
Kevin Bird, Hong An, Elodie Gazave, Michael Gore, J. Chris Pires, Larry Robertson and Joanne Labate (2016) Population Genetics and Association Mapping of Nutritional Traits in the Vegetable Crop Brassica rapa. Plant Biology 2016, Austin, TX
Patrick Edger*, Michelle Tang, Kevin Bird, Dustin Mayfield, Gavin Conant, Klaus Mummenhoff, Marcus Koch, J. Chris Pires. (2014) Assessing the Phylogenetic Utility of the ITS Regions Botany 2014, Boise, ID & Evolution 2014, Raleigh, NC