University of british columbia
Department of zoology
I 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. I 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
Planning for the First International Volvox Conference is underway. The meeting will be held at Biosphere 2 in Arizona December 1-4, 2011.I'll be talking about individuality and complexity in the volvocine algae at the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology meeting in Salt Lake, Utah, July 10-15.
Check out this article on multicellularity in The Scientist: "From simple to complex"
High school teaching modules for the evolution of complexity are available online (08/02/10).
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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