Cara Brand, a graduate student of the University of Rochester and member of the Presgraves Lab, is presenting a talk titled, “An investigation of recent adaptive introgression in Drosophila simulans and D. sechellia,” on Friday, November 30.  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 population genetics of interspecific introgression between Drosophila simulans clade species, and the evolution and genetics segregation distortion.