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Noor has a Bachelor of Science from the College of William and Mary (1992) and a Doctor of Philosophy from University of Chicago (1996), together with a postdoctoral residency at Cornell University (1996–1998).
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Mohamed Noor
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His specialties include evolution, genetics and genomics. He specializes in Drosophila evolution. His team"s research approaches have included both classical genetic mapping, as well as analyses of whole genome sequences.
Likewise, Noor was one of the first scientists to demonstrate by experiment speciation by "reinforcement", that is, as a result of natural selection mating preferences diverge against deleterious hybridization and reduce gene flow between species.
He is also known for developing (along with others) a model wherein regions of restricted recombination, as by chromosomal inversions, facilitate the persistence of hybridizing species. More recently, his research team has focused on understanding variation in recombination rate within and between species, and its impact on deoxyribonucleic acid sequence variation.
In 2008, he was awarded the Darwin-Wallace Medal from the Linnean Society of London. He was editor for the international journal Evolution, is or was associate editor for several other journals, and the author of over 100 publications.
He has served as president of the American Genetic Association and Society for the Study of Evolution and as a board member for the Genetics Society of America.
He and his group have also developed laboratory activities for implementation in high schools and colleges, including a commercial kit for observing natural selection in Drosophila. South. South. L. A. F. A. F.
