 Undergraduate (EEB)
I was an undergraduate majoring in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with primary research interests involving evolutionary genetics with a focus on both why and how genomes evolve.
My work involved testing whether typical rates of translational errors are sufficient to drive selection for increased protein thermostability and hence evolvability.
Trotter, M.V.,Weissman, D.B., Peterson, G., Peck, K., Masel, J. Cryptic genetic variation can make "irreducible complexity" a common mode of adaptation, Evolution, 68:3357–3367