Meet the NIMBioS Graduate Research Assistants
Erin Bodine
Erin Bodine is a doctoral student in mathematics. Her dissertation research focuses on applying optimal control theory to species augmentation, a human orchestrated effort to increase the numbers of an endangered or threatened species population by augmenting that population with individuals harvested from a captive breeding program or stable wild population of the same species.
Edgar Duenez-Guzman
Edgar Duenez-Guzman is a doctoral student in electrical engineering and computer science. His dissertation research focuses on the evolution of complex adaptations through modeling the evolution of pleiotropy and mutational correlations using individual based models with explicit genetics.
Rachel Leander
Rachel Leander is a doctoral student in mathematics. Her dissertation research focuses on optimal control of invasive species models with discrete time and of models of oscillator networks.
Premal Shah
Premal Shah is a doctoral student in ecology and evolutionary biology. His dissertation research focuses on developing models of protein translation and studying how various selective forces drive the evolution of codon usage bias.
Requests for NIMBioS support for graduate research assistants are considered in the spring semester of each year for funding in the subsequent academic year. The next deadline is February 1, 2010, for assistantship activities beginning in August 2010. For more information about graduate assistantships at NIMBioS and the application process, click here.
