Thursday, October 11, 2007

My affiliations

Through my work I am affiliated in one form or another with various research projects and research institutes. Among these are:

  • The CyberInfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research (CIPRES), a research project dedicated to developing - among other things - a distributed architecture for phylogenetic inference. I contribute to this project by developing a client side and server side api to communicate through the architecture in perl.


  • The FAB* lab, a collective of labs at Simon Fraser University whose joint focus is on organic evolution. FAB* stands for Felix Breden, Arne Mooers, Bernie Crespi and Mike Hart, the main labs involved. I did my doctoral research in the FAB* lab - Arne Mooers was my thesis adviser.


  • The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), a research institute devoted to evolutionary biology. I visit NESCent regularly in the context of several conference series I help organize. I've also given some lectures there.


  • Interdisciplinary Research in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences (IRMACS), a research school at Simon Fraser University. IRMACS is where I defended my dissertation - it has great videoconferencing facilities. Most of Arne Mooers's graduate students now hold office there.