By modeling the biological world, we formalize verbal theories, generate testable hypotheses, and develop methods of data analysis. Within OEB, we are focussed primarily on evolutionary and ecological modeling.
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Benjamin L. de Bivort
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Discovering why individuals behave uniquely by linking automated quantification of behavior to variation at the molecular, cellular and neural circuit levels |
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Michael M. Desai
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How genetic variation is created and maintained; natural selection in asexual populations such as microbes and viruses |
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Scott V. Edwards
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Evolutionary biology of birds and relatives, combining field, museum and genomics approaches to understand the basis of avian diversity, evolution and behavior |
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Gonzalo Giribet
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Evolution and biogeography of invertebrate animals, mainly arthropods and mollusks |
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David A. Haig
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Maternal-fetal conflict in human pregnancy to the evolution of plant life cycles; genetic conflicts within individual organisms, as exemplified by genomic imprinting |
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Daniel L. Hartl
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Interface between evolution, molecular biology and genomics
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L. Mahadevan
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Natural interface between physical and biological systems that arises in the context of collective biophysical and biomechanical behavior over a range of scales, from O(nm) to a O(cm)
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Paul R. Moorcroft
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Ecological dynamics of terrestrial plant communities and ecosystems; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; mechanistic models of animal movement
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Martin A. Nowak
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Initiated the field of virus dynamics which led to quantitative understanding of HIV infection; evolution of cooperation |
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Pardis Sabeti
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Genomic signals and mechanisms of evolutionary adaptation in humans and microbial pathogens
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Mansi Srivastava
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Wound response and stem cell biology during regeneration in an evolutionary framework |
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John Wakeley
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Mathematical and statistical population genetics, especially coalescent theory
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