Lani U Gleason

My main research interests include physiological adaptations (and their underlying molecular mechanisms) to abiotic factors such as heat in local marine environments. My current projects investigate 1) the genetic basis of local adaptation to thermal stress across populations of the black turban snail Chlorostoma funebralis in northern and southern California and 2) ecological and evolutionary physiology and genomics of the environmental stress response in Mytilus californianus mussels.

My lab focuses on ecological divergence in marine intertidal habitats at a variety of spatial scales.