My affiliations
Through my work I am affiliated in one form or another with various research projects and research institutes. Among these are currently:
- The PhyloInformatics Research Foundation a Connecticut non-stock corporation founded in 2010 to promote phyloinformatics research and provide governance and direction for TreeBASE and the Tree of Life Web Project.
- The TreeBASE project, a relational database for phylogenetic data. I am the lead developer for the latest version of this important community resource.
- The TDWG Interest Group on Phylogenetics Standards.
- The Data Integration working group of iPlant Collaborative.
- BioHackathon, an annually held meeting to promote interoperability in the life sciences, organized by the Database Center for Life Science in Tokyo.
- 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.
- Reading Evolutionary Biology Group, Mark Pagel's lab at the University of Reading, where I have done my Marie Curie Fellowship.
- The CyberInfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research (CIPRES), a research project dedicated to developing - among other things - a distributed architecture for phylogenetic inference. I contributed 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.
- 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.
