Elizabeth Ostrowski

Assistant Professor

Location: INV-240F
Email: eostrow@uw.edu

Background

Dr. Ostrowski will join UW Bothell in December from the University of Auckland, where she was a senior research fellow at the Liggins Institute.

Research

Ostrowski’s research background is in microbiology, evolutionary genetics and genomics. Her research combines studies of natural populations with laboratory evolution experiments that identify genetic changes in real-time.

She has a longstanding interest in genetic conflict, i.e., when the evolutionary interests of different genetic elements are not aligned. Such conflict can occur among different genomes within a cell, among different cells in a body or among different species. It potentially influences diverse processes, from the origins of complex life to health and disease.

Education

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Ph.D. – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
B.A. – Biology