Contact Information
505 S. Goodwin Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Research Interests
How do genomes change over time? In particular, we want to examine how the architecture of a genome changes in response to major evolutionary events — what architectural changes occur in a genome seeding an invasive species, or a genome underlying a large, long-term species radiation?
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
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Highlighted Publications
Rivera-Colón, A. G., Rayamajhi, N., Fazal Minhas, B., Madrigal, G., Bilyk, K. T., Yoon, V., Hüne, M., Gregory, S., Cheng, C.-H. C., & Catchen, J. M. (2023). Genomics of Secondarily Temperate Adaptation in the Only Non-Antarctic Icefish. Molecular biology and evolution, 40(3), Article msad029. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad029
Minhas, B. F., Beck, E. A., Cheng, C. H. C., & Catchen, J. (2023). Novel mitochondrial genome rearrangements including duplications and extensive heteroplasmy could underlie temperature adaptations in Antarctic notothenioid fishes. Scientific reports, 13(1), Article 6939. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34237-1
Rochette, N. C., Rivera-Colón, A. G., Walsh, J., Sanger, T. J., Campbell-Staton, S. C., & Catchen, J. M. (2023). On the causes, consequences, and avoidance of PCR duplicates: Towards a theory of library complexity. Molecular ecology resources, 23(6), 1299-1318. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13800
Rivera-Colón, A. G., & Catchen, J. (2022). Population Genomics Analysis with RAD, Reprised: Stacks 2. In Methods in Molecular Biology (pp. 99-149). (Methods in Molecular Biology; Vol. 2498). Humana Press Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2313-8_7
Recent Publications
Dudaniec, R. Y., Yadav, S., Catchen, J., & Kleindorfer, S. (2025). Genomic Introgression Between Critically Endangered and Stable Species of Darwin's Tree Finches on the Galapagos Islands. Evolutionary Applications, 18(1), Article e70066. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.70066
Madrigal, G., Minhas, B. F., & Catchen, J. (2025). Klumpy: A tool to evaluate the integrity of long-read genome assemblies and illusive sequence motifs. Molecular ecology resources, 25(1), Article e13982. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13982
Paris, J. R., King, R. A., Ferrer Obiol, J., Shaw, S., Lange, A., Bourret, V., Hamilton, P. B., Rowe, D., Laing, L. V., Farbos, A., Moore, K., Urbina, M. A., van Aerle, R., Catchen, J. M., Wilson, R. W., Bury, N. R., Santos, E. M., & Stevens, J. R. (2025). The Genomic Signature and Transcriptional Response of Metal Tolerance in Brown Trout Inhabiting Metal-Polluted Rivers. Molecular ecology, 34(1), Article e17591. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17591
Rayamajhi, N., Rivera-Colón, A. G., Minhas, B. F., Christina Cheng, C. H., & Catchen, J. M. (2025). The genome of the cryopelagic Antarctic bald notothen, Trematomus borchgrevinki. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 15(1), Article jkae257. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkae267
de Flamingh, A., Gnoske, T. P., Kerbis Peterhans, J. C., Simeonovski, V. A., Gitahi, N., Mwebi, O., Agwanda, B. R., Catchen, J. M., Roca, A. L., & Malhi, R. S. (2024). Compacted hair in broken teeth reveals dietary prey of historic lions. Current Biology, 34(21), 5104-5111.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.029