Kyle Keepers
Student Alumni
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Kyle received his BA in Pure Mathematics from the College of Charleston. He is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder in the Kane Lab in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. His areas of interest include organellar genome evolution in lichens, diatoms, and vascular plants, as well as in quantifying the degree of coevolution between the photobiont and mycobiont of lichen-forming fungi. His tenure in the IQ Biology program has improved his quantitative analysis skills that have enabled much of his research.

He did his lab rotations in Dr. Roy Parker's lab inBiochemistry,Dr. Andres Martin's labin Ecology and Evolutionary Biology andDr. Noah Fierer's lab, CIRES Institute and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.

Pogoda, C.S.*.,Keepers, K.G.*, Hamsher, S.E., Stepanek, J.G., Kane, N.C., Kocielek, J.P. Comparative analysis of the chloroplast genomes of six newly sequenced diatoms reveals group II introns in the barcoding region ofcox1. In review atMitochondrial DNA Part A.

Pogoda, C.S.,Keepers, K.G., Lendemer, J.C., Kane, N.C., Tripp, E.A. Reductions in the complexity of mitochondria of lichen-forming fungi shed light on the genome architecture of obligate symbioses.In review atMol Ecol.

Hamsher, S.E.,Keepers, K.G., Stepanek, J.G., Pogoda, C.S., Kane, N.C., Kocielek, J.P. Chloroplast genomes of three closely related Halamphora spp. (Bacillariophyceae): A case of conserved gene content and extensive genome rearrangement. In prep forGenome Biol Evol.

Keepers, K.G.*, Pogoda, C.S.*, Kane, N.C. A RE-based approach to teaching genomic assembly and annotation to university biology students. In prep forJ Microbiol Biol Educ

Gray, DJ, Baker H, Clancy K, Clarke, RC, deCesare K, Fike, J, Gibbs, MJ, Grotenhermen, F, Kane, NC,Keepers, KG, Land, DP, Lynch RC, Mendieta, JP, Merlin, M, Muller-Vahl K, Pauli, CS, Pearson, BJ, Rhan, B, Ruthenberg, TC, Schwartz CJ, Tittes SB, Vergara, D, White KH, Trigiano, RN. (2017).Crit. Rev in Plant Sciences. Feb 26:1-2.

Vergara, D., Baker H., Clancy K.,Keepers, KG, Mendieta, JP, Pauli, CS, Tittes SB, White, KH, Kane, NC. (2017).Crit Rev in Plant Sciences. Feb 25:1-14.

White, KH, Vergara D,Keepers, KG, Kane NC. (2016)Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Nov 1:715-716.

Vergara, D., White, KH.,Keepers, KG., Kane, NC. (2015).Mitochondrial DNA. Sep 2:1-2.

Keepers, K., Martin, A., Kane, N. (2015).Mitochondrial DNAJune 10:1-2.

Lauber, C., Metcalf, J.,Keepers, K., Ackermann, G., Carter, D., Knight, R. (2014)..Appl. and Environ. Microbiol. 2014, 80(16):4920. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00957-14.

Keepers, K. G. and Martin, A. P. (2014),Molecular Ecology, 23: 2144–2145. doi: 10.1111/mec.12727

Jessica L Metcalf, Laura Wegener Parfrey, Antonio Gonzalez, Christian L Lauber, Dan Knights, Gail Ackermann, Gregory C Humphrey, Matthew J Gebert, Will Van Treuren, Donna Berg-Lyons,Kyle Keepers, Yan Guo, James Bullard, Noah Fierer, David O Carter, Rob Knight. ""eLife2, e01104–e01104 (2013).

J. L. Metcalf, S. Love Stowell, C. M. Kennedy, K. B. Rogers, D. McDonald, J. Epp,K. Keepers, A. Cooper, J. J. Austin, and A.P. Martin. ""Molecular Ecology21, 5194–207 (2012)

Keepers, K. and Harrison, GW. “.”Studies in Computational Intelligence, 2009, Volume 189/2009, 185-192.

Keepers, K. and Young, P. “.” The Fibonacci Quarterly, 46/47 (2008/2009), 26-31.