Job Title
Natural Environment Research Council Fellow
Department
Life Sciences
Phone
024 76 574523
Research Interests
I am interested in the evolutionary ecology of domestic plants, and in human impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity through time. My research uses ancient DNA-based genomics to study aspects of domestication, population dynamics, and biodiversity, and the interplay between these localized phenomena and broader-scale natural and anthropogenic trends. Current avenues of research include:
- Tracing the genomic basis for adaptability to diverse growth environments in maize through the archaeobotanical record.
- Domestication as an adaptive strategy for anachronistic plant species during the New World Holocene.
- Biodiversity and phylogeography of punctually endemic species in eastern Cuba.
Biography
BA, Anthropology and Sociology, The University of Kentucky 2007
MA, Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University 2009
PhD, Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University 2012
Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology and Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, 2012-2014
NERC Independent Research Fellow, 2014-
Member, Society for American Archaeology,
Society for Economic Botany,
Society of Ethnobiology,
Southeastern Archaeological Conference
- 'Kistler, Logan, 'Thakar, Heather B., 'VanDerwarker, Amber M., 'Domic, Alejandra, 'Bergström, Anders, 'George, Richard J., 'Harper, Thomas K., 'Allaby, Robin G., 'Hirth, Kenneth, 'Kennett, Douglas J., 2020. 'Archaeological Central American maize genomes suggest ancient gene flow from South America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117 (52), pp. 33124-33129
- Smith, Oliver, Nicholson, William V., Kistler, Logan, Mace, Emma, Clapham, Alan, Rose, Pamela, Stevens, Chris, Ware, Roselyn, Samavedam, Siva, Barker, Guy C., Jordan, David, Fuller, Dorian Q., Allaby, Robin G., 2019. A domestication history of dynamic adaptation and genomic deterioration in Sorghum. Nature Plants, 5 (4), pp. 369-379
- Kistler, Logan, Maezumi, S. Yoshi, de Souza, Jonas Gregorio, Przelomska, Natalia A. S., Costa, Flaviane Malaquias, Smith, Oliver, Loiselle, Hope, Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmin, Wales, Nathan, Ribeiro, Eduardo, Morrison, Ryan R., Grimaldo, Claudia, Prous, Andre P., Arriaza, Bernardo, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., de Oliveira Freitas, Fabio, Allaby, Robin G., 2018. Multiproxy evidence highlights a complex evolutionary legacy of maize in South America. Science, 362 (6420), pp. 1309-1313
- Melin, Amanda D., Wells, Konstans, Moritz, Gillian L., Kistler, Logan, Orkin, Joseph D., Timm, Robert M., Bernard, Henry, Lakim, Maklarin B., Perry, George H., Kawamura, Shoji, Dominy, Nathaniel J., 2016. Euarchontan opsin variation brings new focus to primate origins. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33 (4), pp. 1029-1041
- Kistler, Logan, Newsom, L. A., Ryan, T. M., Clarke, A. C., Smith, B. D., Perry, G. H., 2015. Gourds and squashes (Cucurbita spp.) adapted to megafaunal extinction and ecological anachronism through domestication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (49), pp. 15107-15112
- Cahill, James A., Stirling, Ian, Kistler, Logan, Salamzade, Rauf, Ersmark, Erik, Fulton, Tara L., Stiller, Mathias, Green, Richard E., Shapiro, Beth, 2015. Genomic evidence of geographically widespread effect of gene flow from polar bears into brown bears. Molecular Ecology, 24 (6), pp. 1205-1217
- Brown, T. A., Cappellini, Enrico, Kistler, Logan, Lister, Diane L., Oliveira, Hugo R., Wales, Nathan, Schlumbaum, Angela, 2015. Recent advances in ancient DNA research and their implications for archaeobotany. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 24 (1), pp. 207-214
- Perry, George H., Kistler, Logan, Kelaita, Mary A., Sams, Aaron J., 2015. Insights into hominin phenotypic and dietary evolution from ancient DNA sequence data. Journal of Human Evolution, 79, pp. 55-63
- Kistler, Logan, Ratan, Aakrosh, Godfrey, Laurie R., Crowley, Brooke E., Hughes, Cris E., Lei, Runhua, Cui, Yinqiu, Wood, Mindy L., Muldoon, Kathleen M., Andriamialison, Haingoson, McGraw, John J., Tomsho, Lynn P., Schuster, Stephan C., Miller, Webb, Louis, Edward E., Yoder, Anne D., Malhi, Ripan S., Perry, George H., 2014. Comparative and population mitogenomic analyses of Madagascar's extinct, giant ?subfossil' lemurs. Journal of Human Evolution, 79, pp. 45-54
- Kistler, Logan, Montenegro, A., Smith, B. D., Gifford, J. A., Green, R. E., Newsom, L. A., Shapiro, B., 2014. Transoceanic drift and the domestication of African bottle gourds in the Americas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 (8), pp. 2937-2941
- Kistler, Logan, Haney, Jennifer M., Newsom, Lee A., 2013. Experimental investigation of pathogenic stress on phytolith formation in Cucurbita pepo var. texana (wild gourd). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 22 (3), pp. 165-170
- Kistler, Logan, Shapiro, Beth, 2011. Ancient DNA confirms a local origin of domesticated chenopod in eastern North America. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38 (12), pp. 3549-3554
- 'Kistler, Logan, 'Thakar, Heather B., 'VanDerwarker, Amber M., 'Domic, Alejandra, 'Bergström, Anders, 'George, Richard J., 'Harper, Thomas K., 'Allaby, Robin G., 'Hirth, Kenneth, 'Kennett, Douglas J., 2021. 'Data for Archaeological Central American maize genomes suggest ancient gene flow from South America. University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
| Title | Funder | Award start | Award end |
|---|---|---|---|
| An archaeogenomic approach to maize evolution, adaptation, and biodiversity in North America: Fellowship for Logan Kistler | NERC | 01 Oct 2014 | 30 Sep 2019 |
| An archaeogenomic survey of maize biodiversity and evolution in South America | STFC | 15 Sep 2016 | 14 Mar 2017 |