Karl Kjer
Karl M. Kjer (born November 19, 1959) is an American entomologist, taxonomist, and molecular biologist.
Background[edit]
In 1992, Kjer received his Ph.D. in entomology at the University of Minnesota. During his post-doctorate at BYU, he studied homology on ribosomal RNA. He started teaching at Rutgers University in 1996.[1] In 2015, he accepted an endowed Chair in Insect Systematics at University of California, Davis, but resigned in 2016 citing "health and family reasons."[2] In 2017, Kjer was convicted of one count of invasion of privacy after secretly recording a 19-year-old woman while she showered in his home.[3][4] He retired from academia in 2017, and now pursues a career in freelance writing and consulting.[5]
Research[edit]
Kjer studied Trichoptera phylogeny, and was a contributor to the Trichoptera Barcode of Life Database. The database is part of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life, a project which hopes to collect barcodes for all of life.[6] He showed that substitution rates are the most important factor in site-specific rate estimation, and that codon partitioning is a poor method of differential weighting.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ "6th International Barcode of Life conference". August 2015.
- ^ Resignation: Dec. 2, 2017
- ^ Luke Nozicka (September 12, 2017). "Man who secretly filmed teen in shower avoids jail". True Jersey.
- ^ Hannah Holzer (June 7, 2018). "Former UC Davis professor filmed individuals showering without their consent, stored footage on university-owned hard drives". The California Aggie.
- ^ Karl Kjer Curriculum Vitae
- ^ "CBOL". International Barcode of Life Project. 2023.
- ^ Kjer KM, Honeycutt RL (2007). "Site specific rates of mitochondrial genomes and the phylogeny of eutheria". BMC Evol Biol. 7: 8. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-8. PMC 1796853. PMID 17254354.
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