Cara Brand, a graduate student of the University of Rochester and member of the Presgraves Lab, is presenting a talk titled, “Evolutionary Genetics of the Selfish Segregation Distorter Complex,” on Friday, February 14.  Cara received her B.S. in Biology from the University of Maryland, College Park.  She then spent a year as research technician in Jerry Wilkinson’s lab, working on hybrid male sterility and meiotic drive in stalk-eyed flies.  She is now studying the evolution and genetics of recombination and the selfish Segregation Distorter complex.