Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
2041 Kraus Natural Science Building
University of Michigan
830 North University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Email: bedfordt@umich.edu
I'm currently employed as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Associate doing research in the lab of Mercedes Pascual at the University of Michigan. Here, I'm studying the evolutionary and epidemiological dynamics of the influenza virus. There are vast amounts of sequence data available. The trick is in the analysis.
I spent the summer of 2008 working for WRI on various biological aspects of Wolfram|Alpha. See for example: "human lion black bear", "heart disease 30 yo male smoker", "blood pressure 120/80".
I received my Ph.D. in evolutionary genetics from Harvard University under the able supervision of Dan Hartl. My thesis work focused on testing "evolutionary molecular clocks." Does evolutionary change in protein sequences and gene expression levels occur at a steady rate, or are there frequent discontinuities?
I did my undergraduate work at the University of Chicago. My honor's thesis involved killing thousands of Drosophila to force them to evolve.
I grew up in Southeast Alaska. It's beautiful there.
My CV is also available.