Ashley Egan

Faculty Member

Dr. Ashley Egan

Biography

Plant evolutionary genetics and genomics, molecular systematics, population genetics, conservation genetics of Leguminosae (Fabaceae)

Education

Postdoctorate, Cornell University, 2010

Major: Plant Biology

PhD, Brigham Young University, 2006

Major: Evolutionary & Molecular Biology

BS, Utah State University, 1998

Major: Biology

Teaching

BIOL 1010

General Biology BB, Fall 2024

BIOL 1010

General Biology BB, Fall 2024

BIOL 1010

General Biology BB, Fall 2024

BOT 4300

Native Trees and Shrubs of Utah, Fall 2024

BIOL 489R

Student Research, Fall 2024

BIOL 489R

Student Research, Fall 2024

BIOL 1010

General Biology BB, Summer 2024

BIOL 1010

General Biology BB, Spring 2024

BIOL 1010

General Biology BB, Spring 2024

BIOL 1010

General Biology BB, Spring 2024

BOT 4200

Plant Systematics, Spring 2024

BIOL 489R

Student Research, Spring 2024

Presentations

Eggleston, Ian (Author Only), Egan, Ashley (Presenter & Author), 2024 Geospatial Applications Symposium, "Using Ecological Niche Modeling to better understand climate impact for Pediomelum aromaticum, a threatened Utah plant", UVU, UVU. (April 5, 2024)
Egan, Ashley N (Presenter & Author), 2nd Annual Teaching and Learning Conference, "CUREs create lasting cross-institutional learning communities outside the classroom", UVU, UVU. (March 29, 2024)
Egan, Ashley N (Presenter & Author), 2024 Honors Faculty Summit, "Interdisciplinary Place-based learning in Modern Legacies", UVU Honors Program, UVU. (March 25, 2024)
Egan, Ashley N., Service-Learning Community of Practice, "Integration of Botanical training with trail improvement and public education initiatives implemented across General Education and Botany majors courses at UVU", UVU, UVU. (February 28, 2024)
Melville, Kaycie (Presenter & Author), Liang, Yu-Ya (Author Only), Egan, Ashley N, 2024 UCUR, "Assessing genomic diversity via whole genome resequencing in bean cultivars (Phaseolus L. spp.) from Brazil, a putative secondary center of diversity", UVU, UVU. (February 16, 2024)
Eggleston, Ian (Presenter & Author), Egan, Ashley (Author Only), 2024 UCUR, "Using Ecological Niche Modeling to better understand Pediomelum aromaticum, a threatened Utah plant", UVU, UVU. (February 16, 2024)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Wang, Meizhen , Zhu, Mengmeng , Qian, Jiayi , Yang, Zhaoping , Shang, Fude , Egan, Ashley , Li, Pan , Liu, Luxian , (2024) "Phylogenomics of mulberries (Morus, Moraceae) inferred from plastomes and single copy nuclear genes" (vol. 197). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108093
Horton, Dasha M, Feleke, Yonas , Pasquet, Remy , Javadi, Firouzeh , Melville, Kaycie A, Delgado-Salinas, Alfonso , Thulin, Mats , Mithen, Richard , Gepts, Paul , Egan, Ashley N., "Phylogenetic systematics of Vigna sensu stricto in the context of Physostigma and Allies" . United States: American Journal of Botany.
Winbourne, Joy B, Hasenstab-Lehman, Kristen E, Egan, Ashley , Piotto, Daniel , Kress, W. John, Porder, Stephen , "DNA barcoding identifies the taxa responsible for symbiotic nitrogen fixation during succession in the Atlantic Forest of Bahia, Brazil " . PLoS ONE.
Egan, Ashley N., Bello, Abubakar , Stirton, Charles H, Chimphango, Samson B.M., Muasya, A. Muthama, "Comprehensive Phylogenetic Analysis of Tribe Psoraleeae (Fabaceae) Supports Segregation of the South American Otholobium as a New Genus Grimolobium" . Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society.
Egan, Ashley N., (2023) "Diphyllarium" (Issue: 3.3, vol. 4.4). Bangkok, : The Forest Herbarium.
Egan, Ashley N., (2023) "Haymondia" (Issue: 3.3, vol. 4.4). Bangkok, : The Forest Herbarium.

Awards

Honors Faculty Fellowship

UVU Honors Program - April 24, 2024

Selected as one of two Honors Faculty Fellows for calendar year 2025.

Faculty Senate Excellence Award

UVU Faculty Senate - March 19, 2024

Peer selected. The faculty receiving these awards have demonstrated their support of our mission of student success through exemplary teaching, research, and service.

UVU Innovation Academy Award

UVU Innovation Academy - February 24, 2023

UVU Innovation Academy External Partner Individual award "Learning through Doing_ Integration of Botanical training with trail improvement and public education initiatives implemented across General Education and Botany majors courses at UVU"

Center for Social Impact SIMLAB Faculty Fellow award

UVU Center for Social Impact - August 25, 2022

Fellowship award to work with SIMLAB to implement service-learning pedagogy in BIOL 3800, spring 2023

Service-Learning Superstar teaching award

Service Learning Committee

Chosen among all UVU faculty for award in recognition of effective employment of service-learning pedagogy in BIOL 3800, Conservation Biology, Spring 2020.

SPOT award, online course development of Biology 1010

Biology Department

Recognition award for role in developing online Biology 1010 shell, contributing videos, lecture content, and assignments.