Dr. James Fry will be hosting Dr. Timothy Connallon’s visit on Friday, November 1.  Dr. Connallon is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University.  He is presenting a talk titled, “Population genetics of adaptation in species with separate sexes.”

Dr. Connallon completed his Ph.D. in the lab of Dr. Lacey Knowles at the University of Michigan, where he studied the evolutionary consequences of X-linked inheritance and sex-specific natural and sexual selection in fruit flies.  Since joining the Clark lab at Cornell in September 2009, Tim has been working to develop theoretical models of adaptation on the X and Y-chromosomes, and autosomes, with the specific goal of generating predictions to be tested using comparative genomics and gene expression data.