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Hi there. I am a Postdoctoral scholar working in the laboratory of Dr. David Haussler, in the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Before postdocing at UCSC, I did my Ph. D. work with Drs. David Begun and John Gillespie in the Center for Population Biology at the University of California, Davis.

&lowast Starting in July I will be part of the faculty at Dartmouth College in beautiful Hanover, New Hampshire. I am currently looking for talented postdocs, graduate students, and technicians, so if you have any interest in working in my lab please send me email with your CV at adk@soe.ucsc.edu

My probably outdated CV
My Current Lab
My new department

Research Interests

My research focuses on variation among individuals in the genomes of Humans and Drosophila. In particular I am interested in the role that natural selection has played in shaping patterns of variation within genomes, and in turn, how one might learn about the nature of adaptation from studying genetic variation.

Recent projects:

Estimating the strength of selection in Ultraconserved regions of the Human genome
Development of population genetic Hidden Markov Models for finding regions of the genome that are under selection
Comparative genomics of Humans and Drosophila