Faculty

Sam Bogan  

Assistant Professor of Biology   

Office: BTCIS 110A
Phone: 518-580-5075
E-mail: sbogan@skidmore.edu

Visit the Bogan Lab webpage

Education:

• BSc, Dickinson College, 2016 (Biology)
• MSc, Sonoma State University, 2018 (Biology)
• PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023 (Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology)
• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2023 - 2026, (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

Courses:

• Bioinformatics (BI 252)

Research interests:

Dr. Bogan is an evolutionary biologist trained in genomics and global change biology. The Bogan Lab investigates how the regulation and evolution of genomes drive acclimation and adaptation to environmental change. Focusing on non-model animals inhabiting rapidly changing climates, the lab’s mission is to improve genomic predictions of acclimation and adaptation to global change. The lab’s research on genome evolution focuses on the effects of demography and environmental stress on genome architecture and structural variation, and how these factors shape adaptation. A second aim of the lab is understanding whether and how the epigenetic regulation of genomes facilitates acclimation.

Recent support:

• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, 2026 - 2030, “An open science ecosystem for enabling macrogenomic research in the sea”. Co-PI. Lead PI: Katie Lotterhos, Northeastern University.

Recent publications:

* = undergraduate mentee; † = graduate student mentee

• Cai T†, Bogan SN, Tanner RL, Kelley JL, and Dowd WW. 2026. Tissue-specific plasticity of DNA methylation across intertidal microhabitats in juvenile mussels (Mytilus californianus). Molecular Ecology 35: e70418.
• Moosman OW*, Kelley JL, and Bogan SN. 2026. Mitigating Assembly and Switch Errors in Phased Genomes of Polar Fishes Reveals Haplotype Diversity in Copy Number of Antifreeze Protein Genes. Heredity 135: 174-186.
• Bogan SN, Surendran N*, Hotaling S, Desvignes T, Bista I, Lins LSF, Eilertsen MH, Le François NR, Algayer T, Hamilton SL, Hoffmann FG, and Kelley JL. 2025. Temperature and Pressure Shaped the Evolution of Antifreeze Proteins in Polar and Deep Sea Zoarcoid Fishes. Molecular Biology and Evolution: msaf219.
• Bogan SN, Porat OI*, Meneses MJ*, and Hofmann GE. 2024. Thermal Plasticity Has Greater Fitness Costs among Thermally Tolerant Genotypes of Tigriopus californicus. Functional Ecology 38(7):1562–1577.
• Bogan SN and Yi SV. 2024. Potential Role of DNA Methylation in Plastic Responses to the Environment across Cells, Organisms, and Populations. Genome Biology and Evolution 16(2): evae022.
• Bogan SN, Johns JW, Griffiths JS, Davenport DL, Schaal SM, Wuitchik SJS, Lotterhos KE, Lou RN, McGirr JA, Downey-Wall AM, Rivera HE, Roberts SB, Puritz JB, and Silliman KE. 2023. A dynamic web resource for robust and reproducible genomics in nonmodel species: marineomics.io. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14(11): 2709–2716.
• Bogan SN, Strader ME, and Hofmann GE. 2023. Associations between DNA Methylation and Gene Expression Depend on Chromatin Accessibility during Transgenerational Plasticity. BMC Biology 21:149.

Memberships:

• The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)
• Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE)
• Marine Macrogenomics Network (MacroMar)