About Me

Amy Zyck

I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Rhode Island in the Puritz Lab of Marine Evolutionary Ecology. Broadly, I am interested in assessing evolutionary responses of benthic marine organisms to multiple anthropogenic stressors. I am using seascape genomics techniques to understand how stressors, like sewage effluent, can act as barriers to gene flow across marine populations. Additionally, I am conducting exposure experiments to investigate physiological responses of larval oysters to multiple stressors and using genomic techniques to determine the underlying mechanisms of those responses. As I believe that reproducibility is an important part of science, all protocols and code used in current and future projects can be accessed through my website or GitHub account.

My Career

University of Rhode Island

Biological and Environmental Sciences Department, Evolutionary and Marine Biology Specialization

September 2018
Ph.D. Student - Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant

University of South Carolina

Marine Science Program, Marine Science Major with Emphasis in Biological Oceanography; Spanish Minor

August 2014 - May 2018
Bachelor of Science

My Projects

Impacts of sewage effluent on genomic diversity and connectivity of fiddler crab populations

A project using a seascape genomics approach to determine the effects of sewage effluent on the genomic diversity and connectivity of fiddler crab populations in Corpus Christi, TX.

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