Following her postdoctoral work at
Uppsala University, Mank was a lecturer at the
University of Oxford from 2008-2012, and then professor at
University College London from 2012-2018. She joined the faculty at the
University of British Columbia in 2018 as a professor and Canada 150 Chair in Evolutionary Genomics. Her research includes the evolution of sex chromosomes and the genetics underlying sex differences. Her work has revealed fundamental properties of the earliest stages of Y chromosomes formation. Mank makes use of genomic data to understand how ecological factors, such as sexual selection, effect genome evolution, and how sex differences are encoded within the genome. She has studied the genetics of female mate preference in guppies, and how this affects the diversity and genetics of pigmentation in males. == Awards and honors ==