{"id":8,"date":"2017-11-07T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T23:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amacp\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2020-07-16T20:27:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T03:27:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amacp\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Email: <\/strong>amacp[at]zoology[dot]ubc[dot]ca<\/p>\n

Twitter:<\/strong>\u00a0@ailenemacp<\/p>\n

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I don’t like math. I\u00a0love<\/em> math. Particularly, as applied to evolution and population genetics. I recently completed my Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where I worked with Dr. Sally Otto<\/a> and will begin a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.<\/p>\n

My PhD thesis focused on coevolution in the context of infectious disease. I explored how coevolution affects disease dynamics and vice versa, how coevolution affects our ability to identify disease genes, and how ecological-coevolutionary and epidemiological-coevolutionary feedbacks shape host genetic variation.\u00a0 Since completing my PhD, I have continued to explore questions at the intersection of evolution and epidemiology, working with Dr. Matt Pennell<\/a> to develop robust phylodynamic methods for inferring epidemiological rates.<\/p>\n

I enjoy pondering a diverse set of evolutionary questions in topics including range expansion, hybridization, local adaptation, parallel evolution, and adaptation with gene flow. I was introduced to population genetics and evolutionary modelling by Dr. Scott Nuismer<\/a> at the University of Idaho, U.S., where we worked on several theoretical<\/a> and\u00a0statistical<\/a> models in evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Email: amacp[at]zoology[dot]ubc[dot]ca Twitter:\u00a0@ailenemacp Google Scholar CV   I don’t like math. I\u00a0love math. Particularly, as applied to evolution and population genetics. I recently completed my Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where I worked with Dr. Sally Otto and will begin a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto in the Department […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55139,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amacp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amacp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amacp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amacp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amacp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amacp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amacp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amacp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}