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The lab consists of student
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It is primarily located in room 403 in
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Aaron
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Aaron
loves to
have a good time and loves his toys (lasers,
computer hardware, circuits, chemistry gear, model rockets).
He tries to find things to occupy his
insatiable and fickle mind, albeit with limited success.
Aaron
thinks consciousness is the universe's way of observing itself and
thinks humanity needs to spread throughout space in an attempt to keep
this interesting phenomenon around forever.
Aaron
Vose is an
undergraduate in computer science at the University of Tennessee in
Knoxville. He
works as a research
assistant for Sergey Gavrilets, where his duties include:
implementation of simulations; management of distributed computation;
data collection and analysis; computer system administration, purchase,
and repair; as well as many other responsibilities. He has
worked
closely with Sergey Gavrilets on a number of projects on topics from
the
evolution of human inteligence to speciation via adaptive radiation,
many of which have resulted in publications.
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Aysegul Birand |
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Aysegul spent a few
years chasing birds in the rainforests of India. Her exposure to the
tropics after spending years in a temperate ecosystem left her
mesmerized with species diversity; hence her quest to find out the
mechanisms leading to speciation. Unfortunately, she doesn't get to do
field work anymore, rather she is playing with math and trying to learn
C.
Aysegul completed her Bachelor's and Master's degree in biology at
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. She joined Nature
Conservation Foundation's Centre for Ecological Research &
Conservation, India for about two years as a research affiliate before
she joined Ph.D. Program at the Department of Biology, New Mexico State
University. Her dissertation focused on the theory of speciation, and
she continues to struggle through the same topic.
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Suzanne
Sadedin |
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Suzanne's
hobbies
include nature photography, poetry, travel and messing around with
artificial life. She enjoys hiking in the Smoky Mountains and
hopes one day to finish writing a novel.
Suzanne completed bachelor's degrees in Zoology and Psychology at the
University of Melbourne before moving to Monash University for her
doctoral work on computer simulations of speciation. She came to UTK as
post-doctoral associate after two years as a research fellow at Monash.
Her work during this time included investigations of cultural
evolution, social networks, digital ecosystems, landscape genetics and
the evolution of complexity, in addition to coauthoring a book and two
review articles on self-organization and ecological complexity. Her
current research focuses on the evolution of diversity at multiple
scales, including ecotype formation, hybridization, speciation, and
cultural evolution.
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Edgar
Duenez-Guzman |
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Edgar
was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico on 1981. Grew up in a house
merely 300ft from the "Estadio Jalisco", at the time the second largest
soccer stadium in Mexico, but for some reason refused to be a soccer
die hard. Resilient to most attempts of his uncle Ernesto to
interest him on
sports, young Edgar was exposed to the other passion his uncle had:
Sience. At the age of 5, Edgar had already decided he wanted to be an
Astronomer. Astronomy, however, was not to be Edgar's profession, as
coming years would show.
It was when Edgar turned 6 that his family acquired its first personal
computer. While the computer was intended for the eldest brother,
Eduardo, it quickly became the source of immense curiosity for young
Edgar. By the time the family acquired the now discontinued Commodore
64C, Edgar had already started writing his own programs. He spent most
of middle-school programming in Logo and Basic. By
high-school, Edgar had regular access to a IBM compatible PC, and
became interested in compiled programs, starting with Q-Basic and even
a little of C. Edgar decided, however, that if he was to be a Computer
Scientist at some time, then he would need to first become a real
scientist and then attempt to learn serious computing. He did so by
studying Mathematics as his undergrad.
During college, he became fully acquainted with C/C++ and Java, which
to date are his favorite programming languages. After that, he made plans
to study a Ph. D. in CS. The rest of the story
unfolds in Knoxville, TN, USA.
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Carrie
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Carrie
Diaz Eaton was born and raised New England. She went to high
school at Canton High in Massachusetts (go math team) and has always
been a nerd. College took her to the University of Maine
where she pursued her love of math and zoology. These days
she enjoys family time, rooting for the Patriots football home team,
sharing her love of teaching, and working towards that elusive PhD in
Math!
Carrie is currently both a graduate teaching assistant in the math
department and a research assistant in for Dr. Gavrilets through the
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department. She developed a
mathematics teaching program for graduate teaching assistants and
currently teaches seminars in the fall and spring for this
program. As a research assistant, she has been interested in
modeling evolutionary ecology - looking at how community interactions
affect genetic evolution, primarily from a traditional population
genetics point of view. Prior work has included computational
neuroscience and applied topology.
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Ivan
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Ivan
Juric was born
in Zagreb, Croatia, Europe. In high school he met biology teacher who
maintained several fruit fly stocks and let him play with them. During
that time he became interested in genetics and evolution. Important to
mention is that this high school had very strong program in Mathematics
and computer science, so learning how to code was inevitable. School
was also full of computer and math geeks who influenced Ivan's way of
thinking; he was fascinated by different applications of a KISS
principle in every day's life (for example in shopping).
After
high school, Ivan studied molecular biology at the Division of Biology,
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, where no one worked with
fruit flies, but some guys in student organization liked to run in the
fields and catch spiders. So he got introduced to field of ecology.
Although working outdoors was interesting, for Ivan playing with
computers is much more entertaining than playing with animals or sodium
dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, which is something
most of his friends (including mom and dad) still can't understand.
During junior year Ivan finally combined interesting question with
appropriate
methods, which resulted in studying some properties of system where
adaptations happens from standing variation by individual-based
numerical simulations. Currently Ivan is playing in the group
of
Sergey Gavrilets. He is interested in studying adaptation from standing
variation, and also in using coalescent theory to answer various
questions we can start asking now when there is huge amount of DNA
sequences available.
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Mauricio
Gonzalez Forero |
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Once
Mauricio was seduced by science, he never
could escape from it. He finds it tremendously interesting and thinks
it's a shame that he can only deal with a very limited part.
In addition to science, he enjoys playing the drums.
Actually, he used to play in a progressive-rock band in Colombia called
Jaén Kief. He loves listening to Beethoven and
Dream Theater and sometimes, when inspired, to practice his rather
funny German.
Mauricio is interested in developing a
mathematical basis for foundational problems in evolutionary biology
such as the species problem and the notion of fitness. He is a masters
student at Sergey's lab.
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Gavrilets,
S. and A. Vose
2005. "Dynamic
patterns of adaptive radiation" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
102:
18040-18045
Gavrilets, S. and A. Vose
2006. "The dynamics of Machiavellian
intelligence" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
103: 16823-16828
Gavrilets, S., A. Vose,
M. Barluenga, W. Salzburger, and A. Meyer 2007. "Case studies and
mathematical models of ecological speciation. 1. Cichlids in a crater
lake" Molecular Ecology 16:
2893–2909
Gavrilets, S. and A. Vose
2007. "Case studies and
mathematical models of ecological speciation. 2.
Palms on an oceanic island" Molecular Ecology 16:
2910–2921
Paperin,
G., Green, D.G., Sadedin,
S. and Leishman, T.G.
2007. A dual phase evolution model of adaptive radiation in landscapes.
Proceedings, 3rd Australian Conference on Artificial Life, Gold Coast,
Australia.
Briscoe, G. and Sadedin,
S. 2007. Natural science
paradigms. Chapter 2 in F. Nachira, P. Dini, A.Nicolai, M.Le Louarn,
L.Rivera Lèon (eds.) Digital Business Ecosystems. pp.34-41.
Briscoe,
G., Sadedin, S.
and Paperin, G. 2007. Ecology of applied digital
ecosystems. Proceedings, IEEE International Digital Ecosystems and
Technologies Conference, Cairns, Australia.
Green, D.G.,
Leishman, T.G. and Sadedin,
S. 2007. The emergence of social consensus
in Boolean networks. Proceedings, IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life,
Honolulu, Hawaii.
Green, D.G., Sadedin, S.
and Leishman, T.G.
2007. Systems Theory - Self-Organization. To appear in S.E.
Jørgensen,
ed. Encyclopedia of Ecology, Elsevier.
Eaton, CD, S Crook,
G Cummins and GA Jacobs. 2004. Modeling
ion channels from the cricket cercal sensory system.
Neurocomputing 58-60:409-415.
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The Arbiter
is a cluster
of around 64 nodes, spread throughout the
University of Tennessee in Knoxville, primarily in the Dept.
of
Computer Science and the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
It is managed through a web interface written in PHP.
For
details on requirements for an account, please contant Aaron Vose.
Also, the
nodes run an Arbiter client, much like the SETI@home and Folding@home
projects. If you have a computer running Linux and would
like to donate your spare cycles to our research, please let Aaron
know, and he can get you connected with an Arbiter client.
In addition to the Arbiter, a new resource is now available to the lab:
a 6-node 24-core cluster utilizing AMD's 2.3GHz quad-core Phenom 9600
processor. The cluster uses full-duplex gigabit ethernet for the
node interconnect. Each node offers 54GB of home area on local
disk and 2GB of DDR2 800 memory. A 54GB NFS share is also
available. The cluster currently supports MPICH 1.2.7 and has the
ability to operate as a pool of arbiter clients as well. For more
details on this computing resource, please contact Aaron Vose.
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This server hosts user data and project pages for
lab members:
avose
duenez
sergey
barry
mauricio
aysegul
Click below to access materials for Aaron and
Edgar's C seminar:
C
seminar
Website
by Aaron Vose; icons by FamFamFam; special thanks to lab members
for design advice.
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