Dr. Thomas Williams received his Ph.D. for research on the molecular mechanisms of Hox protein function during animal development while in the laboratory of Dr. Jeffrey Innis at the University of Michigan. As a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Sean Carroll at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Williams studied how animal form has evolved due to changes in the regulation of gene activity during development. Now at the University of Dayton, Dr. Williams’ lab seeks to define the molecular mechanisms that translate animal genetic variation into overt phenotypic variation in order to understand the causes of individuality and evolutionary novelty.