Lauren Ancel Meyers

E-mail:
laurenmeyers@mail.utexas.edu
Office:
PAT 638
(512) 471-4950
Lab:
(512) 471-8685
Fax:
(512) 471-3878

Education

• 1991-1996 B.A. Harvard University
• 1996-2000 Ph.D. (Biological Sciences) Stanford University

Research Interests

Theoretical and experimental evolutionary biology; microbial evolution and ecology; RNA secondary structure evolution; theoretical epidemiology.

Awards/Honors

• 2000-2002 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biological Informatics
• 2000 Samuel Karlin Prize for Ph.D. Thesis in Mathematical Biology

Publications

• Ancel, L.W. and J.J. Bull (2002) Variation as an adaptation to an uncertain world. To appear in Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
• Ancel, L.W., M.E.J. Newman, M. Martin and S. Schrag (2002) Applying network theory to epidemic intervention: Modelling the spread and control of Mycoplasma pneumoniae. To appear in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
• Ancel, L.W. and W. Fontana (2001) Evolutionary lock-in and the origin of modularity in RNA structure, in "Modularity -- Understanding the Development and Evolution of Complex Natural Systems" (W. Callebaut and D. Rasskin-Gutman, Eds.), MIT Press, In press.
• Ancel, L.W. and W. Fontana (2000) Plasticity, evolvability and modularity in RNA. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular and Developmental Evolution) 288, 242-283.
• Ancel, L.W. (2000) Undermining the Baldwin expediting effect: How phenotypic plasticity influences the rate of evolution. Theoretical Population Biology, 58, 307-319.
• Ancel, L.W. (1999) A quantitative model of the Simpson-Baldwin effect. Journal of Theoretical Biology 196, 197-209.

For additional publications and some pdf files of articles see the Meyers lab web page.