Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Population Biology, UC Davis
B.A. Biology, Cornell University
landscape genetics, ecological and conservation genomics, adaptive radiation
I study the ways in which geographic and environmental variation shape patterns of genetic and morphological variation. My major research interests lie within three areas in this general framework: 1) landscape genetics, 2) ecological and conservation genomics, and 3) phenotypic evolution.
Current research projects in my lab include:
- Landscape genetic studies through time in amphibians and reptiles from California
- Convergence and parallel evolution in the adapative radiation of Anolis lizards
- Variation in aposematic traits in poison frogs
- Conservation genetics in urban-wildland habitat mosaics
Across all of these topics, the work in my lab seeks to integrate genetic, ecological, and landscape data, using a variety of approaches, to gain a more complete understanding of natural diversity.
For a full list of publications see: https://nature.berkeley.edu/wanglab/publications/
Bishop A.P., Terasaki Hart D.E., and Wang I.J. (2025) Optimizing sampling design for landscape genomics. Molecular Ecology Resources, 25: e14052. doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.14052
Terasaki Hart D.E. and Wang I.J. (2024) Genomic architecture controls multivariate adaptation to climate change. Global Change Biology, 30: e17179.
Medina I., Dong C., Marquez R., Perez D., Wang I.J., and Stuart-Fox D. (2024) Anti-predator defenses are linked with high levels of genetic differentiation in frogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 291: 20232292.
Wogan G.O.U., Yuan M.L., Mahler D.L., and Wang I.J. (2023) Hybridization and transgressive evolution generate diversity in an adaptive radiation of Anolis lizards. Systematic Biology, 72: 874-884.
Westeen E.P., Martinez-Fonseca J.G., Chen H., and Wang I.J. (2023) Phenotypic diversity facilitates niche partitioning in a sky island assemblage of spiny lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 140: 589-605.
Bishop A.P., Chambers E.A., and Wang I.J. (2023) Generating continuous maps of genetic diversity using moving windows. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14: 1175-1181. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14090
Yuan M.L., Westeen E.P., Wogan G.O.U., and Wang I.J. (2022) Female dewlap ornaments are evolutionarily labile and associated with increased diversification rates in Anolis lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289: 20221871.
Shaffer H.B., Toffelmier E., Corbett-Detig R.B., Escalona M., Erickson B., Fiedler P., Gold M., Harrigan R.J., Hodges S., Luckau T., Miller C., Oliveira D.R., Shaffer K.E., Shapiro B., Sork V.L., and Wang I.J. (2022) Landscape genomics to enable conservation actions: the California Conservation Genomics Project. Journal of Heredity, 113: 577-588. [Editor's Choice]
Terasaki Hart D.E., Bishop A.P., and Wang I.J. (2021) Geonomics: forward-time, spatially explicit, and arbitrarily complex landscape genomic simulations. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38: 4634-4646.
Medina R., Wogan G.O.U., Bi K., Termignoni-García F., Bernal M.H., Jaramillo-Correa J.P., Wang I.J., and Vázquez-Domínguez E. (2021) Phenotypic and genomic diversification with isolation by environment along elevational gradients in a neotropical treefrog. Molecular Ecology, 30: 4062-4076.
Wogan G.O.U., Yuan M.L., Mahler D.L., and Wang I.J. (2020) Genome-wide epigenetic isolation by environment in a widespread Anolis lizard. Molecular Ecology, 29: 40-55.
Wang I.J. (2020) Topographic path analysis for modeling dispersal and functional connectivity: calculating topographic distances using the topoDistance R package. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11: 265-272.
Yuan M.L., Jung C., Wake M.H., and Wang I.J. (2020) Habitat use, interspecific competition, and phylogenetic history shape the evolution of claw and toepad morphology in Lesser Antillean anoles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 129:630-643.
Yuan M.L., Wake M.H., and Wang I.J. (2019) Phenotypic integration between claw and toepad traits promotes microhabitat specialization in the Anolis adaptive radiation. Evolution, 73: 231-244.
Gray L.N., Barley A.J., Poe S., Thomson R.C., Nieto-Montes de Oca A., and Wang I.J. (2019) Phylogeography of a widespread lizard complex reflects patterns of both geographic and ecological isolation. Molecular Ecology, 28: 644-657.
Wang I.J. and Shaffer H.B. (2017) Population genetic and field-ecological analyses return similar estimates of dispersal over space and time in an endangered amphibian. Evolutionary Applications, 10: 630-639.
Lourenco A., Alvarez D., Wang I.J., and Velo-Anton G. (2017) Trapped within the city: Integrating demography, time since isolation and population-specific traits to assess the genetic effects of urbanization. Molecular Ecology, 26: 1498-1514.
Wang I.J. and Bradburd G.S. (2014) Isolation by environment. Molecular Ecology, 23: 5649-5662.
Wang I.J. (2013) Examining the full effects of landscape heterogeneity on spatial genetic variation: a multiple matrix regression approach for quantifying geographic and ecological isolation. Evolution, 67: 3403-3411.
Wang I.J., Glor R.E., and Losos J.B. (2013) Quantifying the roles of ecology and geography in spatial genetic divergence. Ecology Letters, 16: 175-182.
Faculty Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring, UC Berkeley (2023)
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2019)
Hellman Fellow, Hellman Foundation (2016)
Jasper Loftus-Hills Young Investigator's Award, American Society of Naturalists (2013)
ESPM 137 – Landscape Ecology (Fall semesters)
ESPM 244 – Spatial Ecology (Fall semesters)
ESPM 290/IB 291 – Graduate Seminar in Adaptive Radiation (Spring 2016)
ESPM C192 - Molecular Approaches to Environmental Problem Solving (Spring 2017)
ESPM 290 - Games and Scientific Thinking: Opportunities for Education and Outreach (Spring 2017)
Contact details
Ian Wang
UC Berkeley
130 Mulford Hall #3114
Berkeley, CA 94720