Geneticist, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Dr. Liz Wallace is a Geneticist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), based at the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. Her research applies genetic/genomic approaches to the conservation and management of recreational and commercial fisheries.

Dr. Wallace’s current projects deal with identifying population structure, cryptic species, hybridization, parentage, and recruitment dynamics that span freshwater and marine fisheries. With expertise in bonefish genetics and fisheries movement and reproductive ecology, she is a team member of the FECP spawning and migration research in The Bahamas.