Graduate Student
Laboratory of Dr. James M. Cheverud
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
660 S. Euclid Ave. Box 8108
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO 63110
E-mail: jpjarvis@artsci.wustl.edu
Phone: 314-362-4189
Fax: 314-362-3595
Research Interests:
Though my thesis work is focused specifically on the evolutionary implications of the interaction between strong genetic drift and epistasis, I am more broadly interested in the consequences of complex genetic architectures in a variety of contexts. For example, there are many well developed mouse model systems of human diseases which allow the application of both classic and emerging quantitative genetic techniques to the complicated genetics of disease. Copious details of the physiological function of many loci associated with these diseases are also available from a variety of databases. The challenge over the next decade will be to put this ever increasing cache of information into a meaningful framework for hypothesis testing with the ultimate goal of gaining insight into the relative contribution of genetics and environment to traits of interest.
Thesis Work
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Education:
2008 Pending: Ph.D., Quantitative Genetics; Washington University in St. Louis.
Thesis Advisor: Dr. James M. Cheverud
Committee Chair: Dr. Alan R. Templeton
2002 B.S., Biology; University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.
2002 B.A., Anthropology; University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.
Funding:
2006 $11,714 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant.
Links
Cheverud Lab Page
EEPB at Wash U
Washington University in St. Louis
Wash U Med School
ensembl Genome Browser
Last Updated 1-08-08