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The Schools of Nursing and Pharmacy operate on both the Oxford and Jackson campuses. The Schools of Dentistry, Health Related Professionals and Medicine, and the Health Sciences Graduate School, are based in Jackson only. (Additional healthcare programs are available through the School of Applied Sciences on the Oxford campus.) Other than these exceptions, the schools above are on the Oxford campus.

Faculty Profile

Ryan Christian Garrick

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Biology
Associate Professor of Biology
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508 Shoemaker Hall
University, MS 38677
(662) 915-2341
Joined UM: January 2, 2012

Brief Bio

Ryan Garrick, Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. in genetics from La Trobe University, Australia in 2007. He was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Biology at Virginia Commonwealth Univ. from 2007-2009 and was a postdoctoral research associate in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Yale Univ. from 2009-2011. He joined the faculty of the Univ. of Miss. in 2011. His research interests are evolutionary biology, population genetics & phylogeography, biodiversity conservation, forest invertebrates, & plant-insect co-evolution. In 2017 he was awarded a faculty research fellowship by the National Science Foundation to study how the numbers and genetic variability of four invertebrate species found in southern Appalachian forests change as their environment changes.

Degrees

BS
Genetics
Latrobe University (2005)
PhD
Genetics
Latrobe University (2007)

Committee Memberships

University Standing Committee