Liam Zarri is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Conservation Genomics Group at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. He is a molecular ecologist and conservation geneticist with a background in invasive species management, landscape genetics, whole-genome sequencing, and environmental DNA. He has worked with state governments, the federal government, and tribal entities to assist in the management of recreationally, culturally, or commercially harvested aquatic populations. Currently, he is working to develop non-invasive environmental DNA methods to estimate population abundance of an IUCN red-listed freshwater turtle. He holds a B.S. and an M.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. You can find his doctoral dissertation, The Evolutionary Impact of Humans on Freshwater Fishes, as well his other scholarly works, on his Google Scholar page at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pRgapNYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao.

Positions

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution 2025 - 2027

Research Areas

• aquatic species
• conservation genetics
• environmental DNA
• population ecology (AGROVOC)