Shane Campbell-Staton

Shane Campbell-Staton

Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University
scampbellstaton@princeton.edu

Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton is an evolutionary biology currently working as an Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. His research focuses on wildlife's evolution in response to anthropogenic activity and climate change.

Selected Publications: 

Rochette, N. C., Rivera-Colon, A. G., Walsh, J., Sanger, T. J., Campbell-Staton, S., & Catchen, J. M., 2023. On the causes, consequences, and avoidance of PCR duplicates: Towards a theory of library complexity, Molecular Ecology Resources, 23(6). https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13800

Winchell, K. M., Campbell-Staton, S., Losos, J. B., Revell, L. J., Verrelli, B. C., & Geneva, A. J., 2023. Genome-wide parallelism underlies contemporary adaptation in urban lizards, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(3). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2216789120

Meek, M. H., Beever, E. A., Barbosa, S., ... Campbell-Staton, et al., 2022. Understanding Local Adaptation to Prepare Populations for Climate Change, BioScience, 73(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac101

Dillard, B. A., CHung, A. K., Gunderson, A. R., Campbell-Staton, S., & Moeller, A. H., 2022. Humanization of wildlife gut microbiota in urban environments, eLife, 11. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.76381

Campbell-Staton, S., Walker, R., Rogers, S. A., et al., 2021. Physiological costs of undocumented human migration across the southern United States border, Science, 374(6574). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abh1924

Early Life and Education: 

Dr. Campbell-Staton grew up in South Carolina. He attended the University of Rochester for his undergraduate degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and holds a PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University. His dissertation explored the evolution of the green anole lizard.

Career: 

After completing his PhD, Dr. Campbell-Staton completed his postdoctoral studies at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana as a National Science Foundation Research Fellow (2015-2018). He then joined the University of Montana as a Postdoctoral Fellow, where he worked with Zac Cheviron (2017-2018). In 2018, Dr. Campbell-Staton joined the University of California, Los Angeles, as an Assistant Professor, where he worked for the Institute for Society and Genetics and the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department. He left UCLA in 2021 to start his current position as an Assistant Professor at Princeton University. In his current role, he researches mechanisms that drive adaptive responses to human-altered environments to understand how wildlife evolves in response to human activity and climate change. Dr. Campbell-Staton is also interested in comics and superheroes. He bought his first comic book, Superman vs. Muhammad Ali, in 2013 which inspired him to create the "Biology of Superheroes" podcast in 2017.

Sources: 

Shane Campbell-Staton. (n.d.). Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University. Retrieved April 24, 2024 from https://eeb.princeton.edu/people/shane-campbell-staton

Shane Campbell-Staton. (n.d.). LinkedIn. Retrieved April 24, 2024 from https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-campbell-staton-034a1380/

Shane Campbell-Staton. (2024). Wikipedia. April 24, 2024 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Campbell-Staton

Shane Campbell-Staton [Photo]. (2024). Wikipedia. April 24, 2024 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Campbell-Staton

Photo Credit: 

Shane Campbell-Staton [Photo]. (2024). Wikipedia. April 24, 2024 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Campbell-Staton

Last Updated: 
7/2/2024