Karl Kjer Entomology, Reexamining Insect Evolution!!
“Science is a field of ideas. Be creative. Big breakthroughs come from rejecting the old, and replacing misconceptions, or inefficient models, with new, better ideas.”
Karl M. Kjer is professor of ecology, evolution and natural resources at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Kjer earned his bachelor’s degree in biology and music from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota in 1982. After working as a music teacher and a lab technician, Kjer completed his Ph.D. in entomology at the University of Minnesota in 1992, followed by three years as a post-doctoral fellow in phylogenetics at Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1997, he joined the Rutgers faculty. The author of more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, Kjer is one of the driving forces behind the 1KITE project, a collaborative effort by scientists from 10 countries to analyze the genes from the transcriptomes of 144 insect species.
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