Click on the appropriate interest group on the left to see opportunities appropriate for your interests.

Our lab has a broad set of ongoing projects, which range from studies of the experimental functional genomics of the fungi, to bioinformatics, to theoretical population genetics. Experimentally, all projects in our lab are currently on the model fungi Saccharomyces and Neurospora. In particular, we are taking a systems biological approach (including mathematical modeling, simulation, and functional genomics experiments) to reveal the biology and coevolution of Saccharomyces with the LA dsRNA virus in Saccharomyces. With Neurospora, we are using microarrays to understand the development of fungal fruiting bodies and the evolution of species barriers to hybridization at the molecular level. In both organisms, we're either working on or broadly interested in further work on the population genetics and molecular evolution of these organisms.

Bioinformatic and theoretical studies ongoing range from examining the evolutionary impact of horizontal gene transfer on prokaryotes to the evolution of quantitative traits in multicellular organisms to profiling the phylogenetic power of genes, and there is plenty of flexibility about subject, topic, and approach, as long as the question is sound.