Trainees
Maya Weissman PhD Student 2019 -
BS San Diego State University 2019
I am broadly interested in mathematics and biology. I am currently working on computational methods to model the evolution of modifiers of fidelity of genetic information transmission within and between organisms.
Alumni
Graduate Students
Dr. Christopher Graves, BS University of Vermont 2009. (2011 - 2017). Thesis: Evolutionary consequences of heterogeneous selection in microbial populations. Now data scientist at Foresight Capital, San Francisco, CA
Dr. Yinghong Lan, BS University of Science and Technology of China 2012. (2012- 2018). Thesis: Genetic features that protect natural populations from being overwhelmed by deleterious mutations. Now software engineer at Yelp, San Francisco, CA
David Morgan, BS Worcester State University 2018. (2018 - 2012). MSc.
Postdocs
Dr. Eugene Raynes PhD University of Pennsylvania 2012. (2012 - 2021).
Dr. Chintan Modi PhD University of Texas 2014. (2014 - 2016). Scientist, Amgen, East Greenwich, RI
Dr. Christopher S. Wylie PhD University of California at San Diego. (2012 - 2016). Product developer/team lead, Indeed.com, Austin, TX
Dr. Jennifer L. Knies, PhD University of North Carolina 2007. (2007 - 2011), Associate Professor, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA
Other visitors
Elizabeth Butrick (2017 - 18) Providence Career and Technical Academy, Providence, RI
Andres Castro (2017) Hope High School, Providence, RI
Yifei Wang, Ph.D. (2014) Postdoc with Sam Brown, School of Biological Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Bo Liu, Ph.D. (2014 - 2015) Department of Food Science and Engineering, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan, Shandong, 250353, P.R. China, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250012, P.R. China
Raquel García Pérez (2012 - 2013) Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Meghan Hollinbaugh Baker (2010 - 11) Providence Career and Technical Academy, Providence, RI
Diane Proctor (2010) Robert F. Kennedy School, Providence, RI
Undergraduates completing senior theses
Class of 2021
Jacob Marglous In the Driver’s Seat: Counterdiabatic Driving to Optimize Bacterial Infection and Cancer Treatments
Class of 2020
Gabriella Ferra A Walsh Framework to Study the Effects of Marginal Epistasis and Sampling Biases in Genetic Association Studies
Class of 2019
Class of 2017
Jacob Jaffe Identifying the importance of higher order epistasis
Chibuikem Nwizu, Evolutionary stabilization of microbial genomes and mutation rates in variable environments.Next: Albert Warren Medical School, Providence, RI
Sovijja Pou, Modeling the evolution of antimalarial drug resistance for clinically realistic pharmacokinetics. Next: Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC), Siem Reap, Northwest Cambodia.
Amanda Zajac, Indirect Mutational Pathways to Population Fitness. Next: Bain Consulting Group, New York, NY
Class of 2016
Dylan Spangle: Photosynthesis Can Be Optimized to Feed and Fuel the World: Evolutionary Challenges and Engineering Possibilities Next: MSc Biotechnology, Brown Unversity, Providence, RI
Class of 2015
Natasha Nguyen: Survival of the Stablest? Correlating Fitness with Biophysical Stability Next: Warren Albert Medical School, Providence, RI
Caleb Weinreb: Influence of spatial structure on the success of adaptive therapy in cancer Next: Systems Biology PhD Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Class of 2014
Class of 2013
Alexandra Brown: The Effect of Variance in Time to Lysis on the Malthusian Growth Rate of Lytic Bacteriophage in a Two-Stage Chemostat Next: PhD with Erol Akcey, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
John Goddard: Measuring Phage Lysis Time
Lei Ma: The microbiome composition of a shelter building moth and implications for defense against parasaitoid Next: PhD with Eric Alm, Deparment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Tony Thaweethai: Evolutionary Opportunities for Horizontal Transmission of Antibiotic Resistance Across Bacterial Species Next: PhD Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Class of 2012
Christopher Baker: Estimating the Influence of Mutations on Phage Life Histories Using a Single-Phage Assay.pdf Next: PhD Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Jonathan Kang: Thermal persistence in E. coli and the heat shock response.pdf Next: PhD Biology Department, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Noah Rose: Patterns of Variation in Plant Defenses and Their Effects Across Host Development in a Shelter Building Moth Larva and Its Parasitoid.pdf, Next: PhD Biology Department, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Matt Weisberg: Protein mistranslation is unlikely to ease a population's transit across a fitness valley.pdf
Class of 2011
Jeffrey Yuan: Characterization of Phage Fitness through Singe-Phage Assays.pdf Next: PhD Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Department, University of California at San Diego
Class of 2010
Stephanie Spielman: Evolutionary Constraints on CRISPR Repeats with Conserved Secondary Structure.pdf Next: PhD in Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin. Now: Assistant professor at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
Class of 2009
Robin Zelman: Effects of Drug Concentration on Persistance in Escherichia coli.pdf, MSc '10: Combined Antibiotic Effects on Bacterial Persistence in Escherichia coli.pdf
Class of 2008
Rohan Maddamsetti: The Effects of Standing Genetic Variation on Adaptation to Novel Environments.pdf PhD in with Richard Lenski, Department of Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Now: Visiting assistant professor, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Glen Scheinberg: Examination of single peaked landscapes in silico using the permutahedron.pdf