Welcome to the Alfaro Lab

The Alfaro lab in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA studies macroevolution and biodiversity. We seek to reconstruct the Tree of Life for fishes and other organisms and investigate the causes of diversification.

Alfaro et al. 2018

Rabosky et al. 2018

Rabosky et al. 2018

Alfaro et al. 2018

Ghezelayagh et al. 2022

Ghezelayagh et al. 2022

Lutzoni et al. 2018

Ochoa et al. 2020

Harrington et al. 2016

McGee et al. 2016

McCraney et al. 2025

McCraney et al. 2025

Alfaro et al. 2019

Alfaro et al. 2019

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We develop and apply phylogenomic approaches such as sequence capture of UCEs as well as phyloinformatics to build massive comparative frameworks for evolutionary inference (see Research).

We are located at the University of California, Los Angeles and work closely with a network of macroevolutionary biologists including the Faircloth lab at LSU, the Rabosky and Friedman labs at the University of Michigan, the Sallan lab at OIST, the Near lab at Yale, the Oliveira lab at UNESP, and the Quental lab at USP.

We are always looking for excited and motivated people to join our team! (more info)