My background was originally in physics; my PhD focused on theoretical ecology. My interest in issues of stochasticity and uncertainty has lead me to focus on problems around decision-making under great uncertainty, with connections to economists, computer scientists, and social scientists, in a interdisciplinary field we now think of as data science. I am passionate about teaching and have long been involved in the open science movement, including as founder of two widely recognized projects, https://ropensci.org and...
I am an evolutionary biologist broadly interested in the ecology, evolution, and genomics of adaptive radiation in fishes. My lab uses field experiments, natural history, population genomics, behavioral ecology, functional morphology, quantitative and functional genetics, and phylogenetic methods to dissect this process at the mesoevolutionary scale in rapid radiations of three or more species.
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I was an MCB major at the University of Arizona, then pursued a PhD in virology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, followed by a postdoc in virology at UCSF. I've been a faculty member at UC Berkeley since 2006, became an HHMI investigator in 2015, and am currently Associate Chair of Plant & Microbial Biology. My research is centered on virus-host interactions that influence gene expression, primarily in the context of herpesvirus infection. This includes viral repurposing and altering of cellular gene regulation machinery to promote virus replication, as well as cellular...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Biology and Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Molecular & Cell Biology
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