
Chris Kyriazis
Ph.D. Candidate
Kyriazis, CC, Wayne, RK, & KE Lohmueller, 2020. Strongly deleterious mutations are a primary determinant of extinction risk due to inbreeding depression. Evolution Letters.
Adrion, JR*, Cole, CB*, Dukler, ND*, Galloway, JG*, Gladstein, AL*, Gower, G*, Kyriazis, CC*, Ragsdale, AR*, Tsambos, G*…(17 other co-authors)… Kelleher, J, & AD Kern, 2020. A community-maintained standard library of population genetic models. eLife, 9:e54967.
Younger, JL, Block, NL, Raherilalao, MJ, Maddox, DJ, Wacker, KS, Kyriazis, CC, Goodman, SM, & S Reddy. Diversification of a cryptic radiation, a closer look at Madagascar’s newly recognized bird family. Systematic Biology (in revision).
Heaney, LR*, Kyriazis, CC*, Balete, DS, Rickart, EA & SJ Steppan, 2018. How small an island? Speciation by endemic mammals on an oceanic Philippine island. Journal of Biogeography, 45, 1675-1687. *co-first authors
Kyriazis, CC, Alam, B, Wjodyla, M, Hosner, PA, Hackett, SJ, Mays Jr., HL., Heaney, LR & S Reddy, 2018. Colonization and diversification of the White-browed Shortwing in the Philippines. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 121, 121-131.
Kyriazis, CC, Bates, JM & LR Heaney, 2017. Dynamics of genetic and morphological diversification in an incipient intra-island radiation of Philippine rodents (Muridae: Bullimus). Journal of Biogeography, 44, 2585-2594.
Grants and Awards
Young Investigator Award, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (conference cancelled due to COVID-19), June 2020
UCLA Graduate Research Grant ($2,000), June 2019
Hamilton Award Finalist, Society for the Study of Evolution ($500), June 2019
UCLA Graduate Research Grant ($1,100), May 2019
UCLA Dean’s Scholar ($14,500), 2017-2019
Field Museum NSF REU Summer Research Grant ($7,500), Summer 2015
Dean’s List, University of Chicago, 2011-2015