Services to the scientific community

Below are some of the things I've volunteered to do over the last few years:

• Co-organizer (with Arlin Stoltzfus) of the NESCENT Evolutionary Informatics working group and conference series (ongoing, first meeting May 2007)




• Co-organizer (with Mark Holder, Arlin Stoltzfus, Jason Stajich, Aaron Mackey, Hilmar Lapp and Todd Vision) of the 1st NESCENT Phyloinformatics Hackathon (2006).




• Co-chair (with Patrik Nosil), organizing committee for the 24th Annual Pacific Ecology and Evolution Conference (2003).




• Webmaster for Scientists For Species, which successfully lobbied for a strengthened Species At Risk Act (SARA; passed by Canadian Senate December 16th, 2002).




• Guest speaker for Shad Valley on Human Evolution and on Phylogenetics.

• Member of the Doctoral Students Advisory Group for Burnaby Mountain College.




• Co-organizer departmental seminar series, Simon Fraser University.




• Organizer of SFU seminar series on Perl programming for biologists.




• Reviewer for Phylogenetic supertrees: Combining information to reveal the Tree of Life, for The American Naturalist, for Systematic Biology, for Evolution and for Bioinformatics.