Judith Mank
Judith Elizabeth Mank is an American-British zoologist who is a Canada 150 Chair at the University of British Columbia. She studies how evolution produces variation in animals. She is interested in sexual dimorphism and the formation of sex chromosomes. Early life and education 
Mank studied anthropology at the University of Florida. She moved to Pennsylvania State University for graduate studies, joining the School of Forest Resources. After completing her master's degree she moved to the University of Georgia for doctoral research. Her research considered reproductive diversity in fish. Research and career 
Following her postdoctoral work at Uppsala University, Mank was a lecturer at the University of Oxford from 2008-2012, and then professor at University College London from 2012-2018. She joined the faculty at the University of British Columbia in 2018 as a professor and Canada 150 Chair. Her research includes the evolution of sex chromosomes and the genetics underlying sex differences. Her work has revealed fundamental properties of the earliest stages of Y chromosomes formation. Mank makes use of genomic data to understand how ecological factors effect genome evolution, and how sex differences are encoded within the genome. She has studied the genetics of female mate preference in guppies, and how this affects the diversity and genetics of pigmentation in males. Awards and honors 
 2008 American Society of Naturalists Young Investigator Award
 2009 Society for the Study of Evolution Dobzhansky Prize
 2013 Berlin Institute for Advanced Study Fellow
 2013 Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal
 2016 Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship
 2020 Uppsala University Honorary Doctorate

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Living people
University of Georgia alumni
University of Florida alumni
Pennsylvania State University alumni
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
American zoologists
American women scientists
1976 births