Kim Medley

Kim Medley is an American environmental scientist and the director of Tyson Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis since 2016.^[1] She is known for her work on the influence of human disturbance on the ecological and evolutionary processes of disease vectors, such as mosquitoes and their pathogens.^[2] Her work also includes examining human impacts on vector ecology understanding how human activities altered ecological processes, which further influence trajectories of evolution.^[3]

Kim Medley
Title	Director of Tyson Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis

Her dissertation focused on human-mediated dispersal and its influence on gene flow and adaptive evolution, which was awarded Outstanding Dissertation, 2012-UCF College of Sciences and Excellence in Graduate Research Award.^[4] She further explored this topic and continued her study on Asian tiger mosquitoes.^[5] Medley earned a Ph.D. in conservation biology, ecology and organismal biology from University of Central Florida, an M.S. from Missouri State University, and a B.A. from Drury University. Before joining Tyson Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis, she worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at University of Central Florida and as a graduate research assistant before that.

Medley received an International Biogeography Society Travel Award in 2009. She is a biodiversity fellow at Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University since 2018.

References

1. "People". Tyson Research Center. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
2. "Researchers find St. Louis-area mosquito species adapting to winter". KMOV4. September 1, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
3. "Medley Lab". Medley Lab. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
4. Medley, Kimberly (2012). Dispersal, Gene Flow, and Adaptive Evolution During Invasion: Testing Range-Limit Theory with the Asian Tiger Mosquito (PhD dissertation). University of Central Florida.
5. Medley, Kim A.; Jenkins, David G.; Hoffman, Eric A. (2015). "Human-aided and natural dispersal drive gene flow across the range of an invasive mosquito". Molecular Ecology. 24 (2): 284–295. doi:10.1111/mec.12925. PMID 25230113. S2CID 26741706.