Hello all-
I'm April Wright. I am a second year grad student in David Hillis' lab at UT Austin. Broadly, I'm interested in phylogenetics. Making better phylogenies, using phylogenies and communicating to other researchers best practices in the creation of phylogenetic trees.
And that's kind of a weird thing to be interested in. But the way I see it, we, as biologists, use phylogenies for a lot of reasons and to get at and answer a lot of questions. And if we want to have the right answers to those questions, our phylogenies should be accurate to the best of our abilities. Therefore, I want to work on questions not only about increasing accuracy in phylogenies, but getting that information into the hands of people who will use it. In my conversations with people, I've come to believe that there is a fairly profound gap in some fields between the people who do theory and empiricists. I'd like to shrink that gap.
This evolution of evolvability project, obviously, has nothing to do with that. It should be fun anyway. Am I supposed to say anything else?
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