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University Of Georgia

Biology Agricultural and Veterinary Science Ecology Entomology Evolutionary Biology Genetics

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Allen J. Moore is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Entomology at the University of Georgia, with prior appointments as Head of the Department of Genetics and Professor of Evolutionary Genetics. A faculty member in Biology, he earned a BS in Zoology from Arizona State University in 1982 and a PhD in Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1988. He completed postdoctoral fellowships as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine (1989-1990) and as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Northwestern University Medical School (1988-1989). Moore's academic career began at the University of Kentucky, where he served as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Evolutionary Genetics in the Department of Entomology from 1990 to 1998. He then held positions as Program Director at the National Science Foundation (1998-1999), Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Manchester (1999-2005), and Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the University of Exeter (2005-2011), before joining the University of Georgia in 2011. From 2017 to 2022, he was Associate Dean for Research in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.