Kira M. Long is a data scientist and bioinformatician at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute's Center for Conservation Genomics (NZCBI). She specializes in the analysis of animal genomics and hybridization using computational genomics and bioinformatics. Her research focuses on the population genomics of a variety of taxa, but especially tropical birds. Long obtained her Bachelor of Science from the University of California Davis and her doctorate from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. During her dissertation research, she investigated the hybridization dynamics of a hybrid zone between the golden-collared manakin and white-collared manakin in western Panama. She conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Idaho on the conservation genomics of endangered pygmy rabbits. Her current work at the Center for Conservation Genomics (CCG) focuses on conservation genomics of the endangered Florida grasshopper sparrow and Caribbean grasshopper sparrows and the genetics of migration.
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