My name is Shelly and I am currently a NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology with the University of Michigan (Dr. Stephen A. Smith). I finished my Ph.D. in the Soltis Lab at the University of Florida in August 2024. I study whole-genome duplication in angiosperms. See my research site for more about me.
I was an iDigBio Research Assistant. You can find a round-up of my biodiversity informatics work here.
Some of my recent projects:
- mgaynor1/nQuack: An R package for predicting ploidy level from sequence data using site-based heterozygosity. pkgdown site. Published in Applications in Plant Sciences.
- mgaynor1/AutoPop: R-based autopolyploid population and population genetic simulation. pkgdown site. Published in The American Naturalist.
- Maximum likelihood based ancestral reconstruction: ryanafolk/utremi & PaleoGenerate. Published in Systematic Biology.
- nataliepatten/gatoRs: Geographic and taxonomic occurrence R-based scrubbing. pkgdown site. Published in Applications in Plant Sciences.
- mgaynor1/BiologyPhDStipends: Shiny app for Biology Ph.D. stipend benchmarking. Interactive website. Covered by Nature.
Coming Soon:
- mgaynor1/nQuackAI: The next version of nQuack.
- mgaynor1/MCPop: A collection of functions used to analyze mixed-cytotype data.
Want to collaborate? Send me an email at shellyleegaynor at gmail.