{"id":2385,"date":"2025-10-02T17:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/?page_id=2385"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:30:08","slug":"molly-garrett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/molly-garrett\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Garrett"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: 40px; font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Molly Garrett<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: helvetica;\">Postdoctoral Researcher<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> molly.garrett@ubc.ca<\/span><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2276\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/files\/2025\/10\/MOlly_portrait-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><strong>Education<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: -10px; font-size: 16px;\">\n<li>PhD in Natural Resources, University of Idaho (2024)<\/li>\n<li>BS in Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Missouri (2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: -10px; font-size: 16px;\">\n<li>Applying genomic resources for threatened and endangered species conservation and management &#8211; population and landscape genomics, genetic monitoring, microbiome sequencing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><strong>Projects<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: -10px; font-size: 16px;\">\n<li>Operationalizing genomics for sentinel pika species to mitigate climate change impacts in alpine ecosystems and inform species at risk management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: -10px; font-size: 16px;\">\n<li><strong>Garrett, M.<\/strong>, C. Conway, L. Waits, P. Hohenlohe. 2025. Genetic variation and metapopulation structure inform recovery goals in a threatened species. Genes,<br \/>\n16(6), 694.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Garrett, M.<\/strong>, S. Nerkowski, S. Blair, N. Campbell, S. Barbosa, C. Conway, P. Hohenlohe, L. Waits. 2024. Development and validation of a GT-seq panel for genetic monitoring in a threatened species using minimally invasive sampling. Ecology and Evolution, 14(5), e11321.<\/li>\n<li>Budd, K., C. Sampson, P. Leimgruber, D. Tonkyn, K. Storey, <strong>M. Garrett<\/strong>, and L.S. Eggert. 2021. Population structure and demography of Myanmar\u2019s conflict elephants. Global Ecology and Conservation, 31, e01828.<\/li>\n<li>Seaborn, T., K. Andrews, C. Applestein, T. Breech, <strong>M. Garrett<\/strong>, A. Zaiats, and T.T. Caughlin. 2021. Integrating genomics in population models to forecast translocation success. Restoration Ecology, 29(4), e13395.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2387\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/files\/2025\/10\/Molly_field.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1021\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/files\/2025\/10\/Molly_field.jpeg 1021w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/files\/2025\/10\/Molly_field-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/files\/2025\/10\/Molly_field-768x514.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/files\/2025\/10\/Molly_field-400x268.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molly Garrett Postdoctoral Researcher Email: molly.garrett@ubc.ca Education PhD in Natural Resources, University of Idaho (2024) BS in Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Missouri (2018) &nbsp; Research Interests Applying genomic resources for threatened and endangered species conservation and management &#8211; population <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/molly-garrett\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Molly Garrett<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81766,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2385","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2385\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russellolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}