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Research Interests: Origin of eukaryotes; origin of life; evolution of lipids and membrane proteins in archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes; bioinformatic and computational analyses of horizontal gene transfers across the three domains; unravelling the tree of life.
Ph.D.: University of London - University College London (UCL) - Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment. PhD project: "Membrane bioenergetics at major transitions in evolution". 2016.
Research Interests: Population genetics; Bioinformatics; Molecular Ecology; Speciation; Comparative Phylogeography
Ph.D.: Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. “Molecular Analyses of Neotropical Amphibians”, 2013
Research Interests: Bioinformatic, population genetic, and geographic information systems approaches for studying therapeutically relevant and theoretically informative evolutionary processes, chiefly utilizing within-host viral, cancer, and human immune allele data.
Ph.D.: University of South Carolina, Dept. of Biological Sciences; “Studying Within-Host Viral Evolution Using Pooled Next-Generation Sequencing Data”. 2016
Research Interests: The relationship between selection efficacy, host range and effective population size in butterflies and bacteria.
Ph.D.: Princeton University, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; “Natural Selection in Lepidoptera Across Biological Scales”. 2015
Research Interests: Using spatial bioinformatics and primary biodiversity data to study plant community ecology, species distributions, and biogeography and paleoclimate of the American Southwest during and following the terminal Pleistocene glaciation.
Ph.D.: Cornell University, School of Integrated Plant Science, Section of Plant Biology; “The intersection of climate and niche: Likelihood estimation of modern and past climate using plant biodiversity”. 2016
Research Interests: Evolutionary biology, statistics, and bioinformatics to explore genome evolution in eukaryotes, using malaria parasites as a model.
Ph.D.: Harvard University, Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; “Recombination and Genome Evolution in Plasmodium falciparum”. 2007
This Fellowship is made possible through the generous support of the Gerstner Family Foundation.