Prof. Dr. Daven Presgraves

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsBioinformatics and Theoretical Biology,Evolutionary Cell and Developmental Biology (Zoology)
KeywordsEvolutionary genetics, Sex chromosomes, Genetic conflict, Hybrid incompatibility, Speciation
Honours and awards

2009: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship

2008: Balfour Prize Lectureship, Genetics Society of the United Kingdom

2008: David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science & Engineering

2008: Grass Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

2005: John Maynard Smith Prize, European Society for Evolutionary Biology

2003: Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize, Society for the Study of Evolution

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityRochester
InstitutionUniversity of Rochester
InstituteDepartment of Biology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang StephanDepartment Biologie II - Biozentrum Martinsried, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2003

Programme(s)

2003Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2007Daven Presgraves, Wolfgang Stephan: Pervasive Adaptive Evolution among Interactors of the Drosophila Hybrid Inviability Gene, Nup96 . In: Mol. Biol. Evol., 2007, 306-314
2005Daven Presgraves: Recombination Enhances Protein Adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster. In: Current Biology, 2005, 1651-1656