University of british columbia

Department of zoology

Something scenicI am a postdoctoral researcher in Michael Doebeli's lab. My current research focuses on questions related to phenotypic plasticity, genetic assimilation, robustness, and evolvability.
My PhD from the University of Arizona focused on evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs) generally, and specifically in the transition from unicellular to differentiated multicellular life in the volvocine green algae. was co-advised by Rick Michod and Régis Ferrière. My PhD research incorporated theoretical, empirical, and comparative approaches to explore the selective pressures that may have driven this transition.


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updates

My new Volvox igoogle theme is live (06/13/09).

Dates from the PNAS article are included in the Time Tree database (without confidence intervals, though; 06/12/09).

Chlamy song! (06/29/08)

Abstracts for Chlamy 2008 are online (04/02/08).

The National Academies Press has released a new, free (online) book (01/05/08):

 
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