Dr. Andrew Sweet

Assistant Professor

Senior Personnel, UandI-DEECoDE

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Education

• B.S. (2012). Grove City College. Biology
• Ph.D. (2018). University of Illinois. Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology

Professional Credentials

• 2021-Present - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR.
• 2019-2020 -NSF Postdoctoral Fellow. Dept. of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• 2018- 2019 - Postdoctoral Research Associate. Dept. of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
• 2018-Present - Research Affiliate. Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.

Courses Taught

• Biological Seminar (BIO 4021)
• Evolution (BIO 3033)

Research Interests

• Host-symbiont coevolution
• Mitochondrial genome evolution
• Genomics
• Phylogenetics
• Systematics
• Population genetics
• Biodiversity