Welcome to the Homepage of the Matute Lab.
This is the lab page for the Daniel Matute lab at UNC Chapel Hill. It is currently under construction, so please bear with us :)
We are an evolutionary biology lab located in the Genome Sciences Building at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Our lab is interested in evolutionary processes that contribute to speciation. Specifically, we use the genus Drosophila (fruit flies) to better understand how hybrid incompatibilities accumulate, and how these contribute to the development of species boundaries through inviable offspring. This often involves closely testing different combinations of fly lineages, extracting DNA, and using Next Generation Sequencing to generate genomic data for use in bioinformatic and computational analyses.
We aren’t just limited to Drosophila; Our lab also explores the evolution of virulence within dimorphic fungal pathogens through many model and non-model organisms such as Histoplasma, Paracoccidioides, and Sporothrix among others.
If you would like to contact us, please email contact info. If you would like to view our publications, please go to our Google Scholar.
We are associated with the Chapel Hill Department of Biology, the Duke Tri Molecular Mycology and Pathogenesis Training Program, and we recieve funding from the National Institute of Health.
