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Emily Latch

  • Professor, Biological Sciences
  • Associate Chair, Biological Sciences
  • Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Biological Sciences

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, National Zoological Park, 2007-2008
  • Visiting Scholar, Eastern Illinois University, 2006-2007
  • Postdoctoral fellow, Purdue University, 2004-2006
  • PhD, Purdue University, Population Genetics, 2004
  • BS, Cedar Crest College, 1999

Courses Taught

BIO SCI 150 Foundations of Biological Sciences I

BIO SCI 480 Ecological Genetics

BIO SCI 505 Conservation Biology

BIO SCI 670 Senior Seminar

BIO SCI 931 Graduate Seminar

Teaching Interests

Evolution, Conservation, Genetics

Research Interests

Biodiversity genomics, Conservation genetics, Evolution, Molecular ecology

Selected Publications

See Google Scholar page for full publication list. Happy to provide PDF copies of publications upon request.
Christensen AJ, Latch EK, Carstensen M, Seaborn T (2026) Assessing Kinship Detection: Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Array Density and Estimator Comparison in White-Tailed Deer. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 16(4), jkag007.
Navarro D, Latch EK, Tallon AK, Ott‐Conn CN, DeYoung RW, Walsh DP, Euclide PT, RG C, Larson WA, Seetharam AS, Severin AJ (2026) Development of High‐Throughput Genomic Resources to Inform White‐Tailed Deer Population and Disease Management. Molecular Ecology Resources, 26(1), e70085.
Chesser RT, Isler ML, Santana A, Latch EK, Stryjewski KF, Reed J, Naka LN, Fleischer RC, Aleixo A (2025) Comparative phylogeographic patterns in three pan-Amazonian antwren lineages (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae: Myrmotherula and Isleria). Zootaxa, 5722(1),1-44.
Mucci N, González S, Gupta SK, Kumar A, Latch EK (2025) Conservation Genetics of Deer. Pages 811-840 in Deer of the World: Ecology, Conservation and Management (eds Melletti M, Focardi S). Cham: Springer Nature.
RG C, Tallon A, Latch EK (2025) Chronic Wasting Disease Research in North America: A systematic review highlighting species-wise and interdisciplinary research trends. Prion, 19(1), 1-6.
Yi X, Latch EK, Lim BK, Koroiva R, Da Rocha PA, Feijó A (2024) UCE-derived mitochondrial phylogeny reveals pervasive mito-nuclear discordances in serotine bats (genus Eptesicus) and complex evolutionary history in Eptesicus (Histiotus). Mammalian Biology, 104(4), 417-430.
Hauser S, Robinson SM, Latch E (2024) Genomic analysis of population history for Hawaiian monk seals. Endangered Species Research, 53, 327-340.