I am an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Tennessee Knoxville and senior personnel at the National Institute of Mathematical and Biological Synthesis. I joined the University of Tennessee in August 2007. I earned a M.Sc. in Biology at Oxford University, working on the Red Queen theory on the evolution of sex. Subsequently, I accepted a Fulbright scholarship to fund my Ph.D in Biology at Harvard University where I worked on two paradigmatic cases of intragenomic conflict, namely meiotic drive and genomic imprinting. After graduating from Harvard, I received a stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship from St John's College, Oxford University, and joined the Oxford Center for Gene Function The joy that research brings to my life (as captured in the above picture) is only comparable to the happiness that the cicadas chant bestows on the estival evenings of Knoxville.
Publications
A Model for Genomic Imprinting in the Social Brain: Adults (with Andy Gardner), Evolution (2011)
Genomic imprinting refers to genes that are silenced when inherited via sperm or via egg....
Let the Right One In: A Microeconomic Approach to Partner Choice in Mutualisms (with Marco Archetti, Drew Fudenberg, Jerry Green, Naomi E. Pierce, and Douglas W. Yu), The American Naturalist (2011)
One of the main problems impeding the evolution of cooperation is partner choice. When information...
Power and Corruption (with Edgar A. Due´n˜ ez-Guzma´n), Evolution (2011)
Cooperation is ubiquitous in the natural world. What seems nonsensical is why natural selection favors...
Stable linkage disequilibrium owing to sexual antagonism (with David Haig and Manus M. Patten), Proceedings of the Royal Society of Biological Sciences (2011)
Linkage disequilibrium (LD) is an association between genetic loci that is typically transient. Here, we...
The Red Queen theory of recombination hotspots (with J.F. Wilkins), Journal of Evolutionary Biology (2011)
Recombination hotspots are small chromosomal regions, where meiotic crossover events happen with high frequency. Recombination...