Michael E. Palmer (Visiting Scholar)

Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1997.

Interests: the evolution of evolvability. We define evolvability as the likelihood that the mapping from the genotype to the phenotype (i.e., the processes of development and metabolism) will produce adaptive phenotypic variation when the genotype is subjected to common types of genetic variation (such as mutation and recombination). We are building the Virtual Lab Bench for Evolvability, an in silico experimental platform for the study of evolvability. Here is some more about my research from my personal home page.

email: mepalmer at charles dot stanford dot edu

Laurent Lehmann

Ph.D., University of Lausanne, 2003.

Interests: the evolution of helping and harming behaviors, whereby individuals increase and decrease the fitness of other individuals in a population. My main research aim is trying to disentangle the ecological, demographic and life-history factors favoring the evolution of these behaviors. I'm currently investigated co-evolutionary models of genes and culture for the evolution of helping.

Here is my personal home page.

email: lehmann at stanford dot edu

Elhanan Borenstein

Ph.D., Tel-Aviv University, 2006.

Interests: see personal web page.

email: ebo at stanford dot edu

Marcel Salathé

Ph.D., ETH Zurich, 2007. Currently a Branco Weiss fellow.

Main interests: Epidemics, Cultural evolution, Epigenetics.
Publications etc. see personal web page.

email: salathe at stanford dot edu

Misha Lipatov

email: lipatov at stanford dot edu