Sarah Swiston

Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Current advisor: Michael J. Landis, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Oklahoma, 2020

Enrollment year: 2020

Research summary
I study phylogenetic methods of historical biogeography, creating and implementing models to infer the geographic and diversification history of clades.

I’m interested in phylogenetic methods for inferring the historical processes behind spatial and temporal patterns of diversity, and applying these methods to real and simulated data. In particular, I am interested in the diversification of lizards.

Graduate publications
Swiston SK, Landis MJ. 2025 Testing Relationships between Multiple Regional Features and Biogeographic Processes of Speciation, Extinction, and Dispersal. Syst Biol, 74(2):282-300. PMCID: