Dr. Jeffrey Townsend

Biography

Professor Townsend received his Ph.D. in 2002 in organismic evolutionary biology from Harvard University, where he worked under the advisement of Daniel Hartl. His dissertation was titled "Population Genetic Variation Genome-Wide Gene Expression: Modeling, Measurement, Analysis" and focused on population genetic analysis of genome-wide gene expression variation, utilizing the budding yeast S. cerevisiae. After completing his Ph.D. research, Dr. Townsend accepted a position as a Miller Fellow at the University of California-Berkeley in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, where he developed molecular tools and techniques for analysis methodologies related to functional genomics studies with the filamentous fungal model species Neurospora crassa, co-advised by Berkeley fungal evolutionary biologist John Taylor and molecular mycologist Louise Glass. In 2004, he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Connecticut. In 2006, he joined Yale University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and was appointed Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health in 2013.

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