Rate My Professor Kristin Winchell

Her research focuses on evolutionary ecology, urban evolution, herpetology, and tropical ecology, with particular emphasis on the ecological and evolutionary responses of wildlife, especially Anolis lizards, to urbanization and global change. Winchell integrates field studies, phenotypic analyses, and genomics to examine adaptation in urban environments. Key publications include “Genome-wide parallelism underlies contemporary adaptation in urban lizards” (PNAS, 2023), “A Shifting Lens: Urban Evolution Brings Exaptation Into Focus” (Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023), “Moving past the challenges and misconceptions in urban adaptation research” (Ecology & Evolution, 2022), and “Selection on thermal plasticity facilitates adaptation of city lizards to urban heat islands” (Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2020). She contributes to the fields of genomics and systems biology as well as evolution, ecology, and environmental biology through her work at NYU.