Areas of Research

 Laboratory of Dr. David Holm, UBC, Department of Zoology

• compound chromosome and ring chromosome formation as it relates to study the centromeric region of chromosome 2 in Drosophila

• genetic analysis of segregation distortion (meiotic drive)

• theoretical and statistical analysis of segregation distortion

Laboratory of Dr. Arthur Hilliker, University of Guelph, Department of Molecular Biology and GeneticsLaboratory of Dr. Hunt Willard, Stanford University, Department of Medical Genetics

• mutagenesis and genetic analysis of genes near the Segregation Distorter site

• statistical analysis of segregation ratios

• computer simulation of genetic drift when the segregation ratio varies

• mechanism of isochromosome formation in humans

Laboratory of Dr. Christer Enström, UCLA, Department of Orthodontics

• the role of random genetic drift in evolutionary changes to tooth size