Senior Research Scientist
School of Biological Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology
http://pwp.gatech.edu/pgerrish
philip.gerrish@biology.gatech.edu
Research Summary:
Gerrish works in collaboration with experimentalists to address: 1) the effects of genetic linkage on a population’s a) genetic variation, b) evolutionary dynamics, c) predisposition to constitutive transitions, and d) long-term fate; 2) why sex and recombination are ubiquitous in nature; 3) the thermodynamics of primordial cooperation and origins of complexity.