The Townsend lab integrates theory and experiment to study population genetics, functional genomics, and evolutionary biology. Ongoing research includes experimental work on the population genetics and functional genomics of the model fungi Saccharomyces cerevisiae (wine yeast) and Neurospora crassa (bread mold), bioinformatics and statistics for the analysis of DNA microarrays, and population genetic theory on horizontal gene transfer in microbial populations.

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