{{short description|American scientist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Molly Schumer | fields = Ecology, Evolution | alma_mater = Reed College <br /> Princeton University | known_for = Biological hybrids | awards = 2019 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator, Genetics Society of America <br /> 2018 Rising Star in Evolutionary Biology, Atwood Colloquium <br /> 2017 Women in Science Fellow, L'Oréal USA | website = https://schumerlab.com/ }} '''Molly Schumer''' is an American scientist who studies evolution, hybridization, and population genetics. She is an assistant professor of biology at Stanford University.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Molly Schumer's Profile {{!}} Stanford Profiles|url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/184010|access-date=2021-01-11|website=profiles.stanford.edu|language=en}}</ref> She is a member of Stanford Bio-X and a Hannah H. Grey Fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=University|first1=© Stanford|last2=Stanford|last3=California 94305|date=2019-09-10|title=Molly Schumer - Assistant Professor of Biology|url=https://biox.stanford.edu/people/molly-schumer|access-date=2021-01-11|website=Welcome to Bio-X|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=HHMI Selects 15 Hanna Gray Fellows to Support Diversity in Science|url=https://www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-selects-15-hanna-gray-fellows-support-diversity-science|access-date=2021-01-11|website=HHMI.org|language=en}}</ref>
== Education == Schumer completed her Bachelor of Arts in 2009 at Reed College, earning Phi Beta Kappa.<ref>{{Cite web|title=REED COLLEGE Renn lab members|url=https://www.reed.edu/biology/professors/srenn/pages/research/Renn_members.html|access-date=2021-01-11|website=www.reed.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=alan|title=Alumni News from Reed Magazine, June '11 {{!}} Chemistry News|url=https://blogs.reed.edu/chemistry_news/2012/01/alumni-news-from-reed-magazine-june-11/|access-date=2021-01-11|language=en-US}}</ref> She went on to pursue her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University (jointly supervised by Peter Andolfatto and Gil Rosenthal), finishing in February 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|last=ORCID|title=Molly Schumer (0000-0002-2075-5668)|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2075-5668|access-date=2021-01-11|website=orcid.org|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Hybrids, Hybrids Everywhere|url=https://hms.harvard.edu/news/hybrids-hybrids-everywhere|access-date=2021-01-11|website=hms.harvard.edu|date=27 March 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
After her PhD, Schumer worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University with Molly Przeworski before joining the Harvard Society of Fellows in July 2016, where she worked in the lab of David Reich.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Dobzhansky Prize|url=https://www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display/2017/7/3/dobzhansky-prize/|access-date=2021-01-11|website=www.evolutionsociety.org|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> She became a Hanna H. Grey Fellow at HHMI in 2017, and was hired for her current assistant professorship at Stanford University in 2019.<ref name=":0" />
== Research == Schumer's lab investigates biological hybrids and population genetics. Model organisms used in the lab are primarily fish and include the Gila topminnow, ''Xiphophorus'' (swordtail), and ''Julidochromis''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-01-12|title=Publications|url=https://schumerlab.com/about/|access-date=2021-01-24|website=Schumer lab|language=en}}</ref>
=== Key Publications === Schumer has authored or co-authored multiple publications that have been cited 100 or more times.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Molly Schumer|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=sxvgFxwAAAAJ|access-date=2021-01-24|website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> As of January 2021, these include:
* "How common is homoploid hybrid speciation?" ''Evolution''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Schumer|first1=Molly|last2=Rosenthal|first2=Gil G.|last3=Andolfatto|first3=Peter|title=How Common is Homoploid Hybrid Speciation?|date=2014-04-13|journal=Evolution|volume=68|issue=6|pages=1553–1560|doi=10.1111/evo.12399|pmid=24620775|issn=0014-3820|doi-access= |bibcode=2014Evolu..68.1553S }}</ref> * "Parallel molecular evolution in an herbivore community," ''Science''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Zhen|first1=Y.|last2=Aardema|first2=M. L.|last3=Medina|first3=E. M.|last4=Schumer|first4=M.|last5=Andolfatto|first5=P.|date=2012-09-28|title=Parallel Molecular Evolution in an Herbivore Community|url= |journal=Science|language=en|volume=337|issue=6102|pages=1634–1637|doi=10.1126/science.1226630|issn=0036-8075|pmc=3770729|pmid=23019645 |bibcode=2012Sci...337.1634Z }}</ref> * "Phylogenomics reveals extensive reticulate evolution in ''Xiphophorus'' fishes," ''Evolution''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Cui|first1=Rongfeng|last2=Schumer|first2=Molly|last3=Kruesi|first3=Karla|last4=Walter|first4=Ronald|last5=Andolfatto|first5=Peter|last6=Rosenthal|first6=Gil G.|title=Phylogenomics Reveals Extensive Reticulate Evolution Inxiphophorusfishes|date=2013-04-04|journal=Evolution|volume=67|issue=8|pages=2166–2179|doi=10.1111/evo.12099|pmid=23888843|issn=0014-3820|doi-access= |bibcode=2013Evolu..67.2166C }}</ref> * "Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes," ''Science''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Schumer|first1=Molly|last2=Xu|first2=Chenling|last3=Powell|first3=Daniel L.|last4=Durvasula|first4=Arun|last5=Skov|first5=Laurits|last6=Holland|first6=Chris|last7=Sankararaman|first7=Sriram|last8=Andolfatto|first8=Peter|last9=Rosenthal|first9=Gil G.|title=Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes |journal=Science |date=2018 |volume=360 |issue=6389 |pages=656–660 |doi=10.1126/science.aar3684 |pmid=29674434 |pmc=6069607 |bibcode=2018Sci...360..656S |biorxiv=10.1101/212407}}</ref> * "A serine cluster mediates BMAL1-dependent CLOCK phosphorylation and degradation," ''Cell Cycle''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Spengler|first1=Mary L.|last2=Kuropatwinski|first2=Karen K.|last3=Schumer|first3=Molly|last4=Antoch|first4=Marina|date=2009-12-15|title=A serine cluster mediates BMAL1-dependent CLOCK phosphorylation and degradation|journal=Cell Cycle|volume=8|issue=24|pages=4138–4146|doi=10.4161/cc.8.24.10273|pmid=19946213|pmc=4073639|issn=1538-4101|doi-access=free}}</ref>
== Awards, fellowships, and grants == Schumer won a 2019 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator award from the Genetics Society of America and was named the 2018 Rising Star in Evolutionary Biology by the Atwood colloquium.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-10-10|title=2019 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award Winners Announced|url=https://genestogenomes.org/2019-rosalind-franklin-young-investigator-award-winners-announced/|access-date=2021-01-11|website=Genes to Genomes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=EEB Annual Atwood Colloquium|url=https://eeb.utoronto.ca/event/eeb-annual-atwood-colloquium/|access-date=2021-01-11|website=Ecology & Evolutionary Biology|language=en-CA}}</ref> She has received many other awards and honors, including:
* Milton Fund Awardee, Harvard University<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Schumer|first1=Molly|last2=Rosenthal|first2=Gil G.|last3=Andolfatto|first3=Peter|date=April 2018|title=What do we mean when we talk about hybrid speciation?|journal=Heredity|volume=120|issue=4|pages=379–382|doi=10.1038/s41437-017-0036-z|issn=0018-067X|pmc=5842215|pmid=29302049 |bibcode=2018Hered.120..379S }}</ref> *Women in Science Fellow, L'Oréal USA (2017)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Awards & Recognition: November 2017|url=https://hms.harvard.edu/news/awards-recognition-november-2017|access-date=2021-01-11|website=hms.harvard.edu|date=22 November 2017 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Five Female Biologists, Engineers and Physicists Receive L'Oréal Fellowships {{!}} American Association for the Advancement of Science|url=https://www.aaas.org/news/five-female-biologists-engineers-and-physicists-receive-loreal-fellowships|access-date=2021-01-11|website=www.aaas.org|language=en}}</ref> *Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize, Society for the Study of Evolution (2017)<ref name=":1" /> * Walbridge Award, Princeton Environmental Institute (2013)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Four Graduate Students Receive PEI Walbridge Fund Awards|url=https://environment.princeton.edu/news/four-graduate-students-receive-pei-walbridge-fund-awards-2/|access-date=2021-01-11|website=High Meadows Environmental Institute|language=en-US}}</ref> * Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP), National Science Foundation (2011-2014) * Goldwater Scholarship (2007)<ref>{{Cite web|title=2007 Scholars List {{!}} Barry Goldwater|url=https://goldwater.scholarsapply.org/2007-scholars/|access-date=2021-01-11|website=goldwater.scholarsapply.org}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://schumerlab.com/ Official website]
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