个人简介

简要介绍：David Waxman carries out research work in quantitative biology using mathematical and computational methods. Since July 2011 he has been working full time in Fudan University, Shanghai, initially under the Chinese Government Foreign Expert (Qianren) Program. He has published research papers in well-known journals including Nature, Science, PNAS, Genetics and Evolution. He has served on the Editorial Board of journals such as Science, American Naturalist, Journal of Theoretical Biology and Theoretical Population Biology. 代表成果： Selected Publications For a complete list, including downloadable versions (in PDF), clickhere Evolutionary Control: Targeted Change of Allele Frequencies in Natural Populations Using Externally Directed Evolution Journal of Theoretical Biology 419: 362-374 (2017) with Hassan Shafiey and Toni Gossmann. A Modified Wright-Fisher Model that Incorporates Ne: A Variant of the Standard Model with Increased Biological Realism and Reduced Computational Complexity Journal of Theoretical Biology 393: 218-28 (2016) with Lei Zhao and Toni Gossmann. Exact Simulation of Conditioned Wright-Fisher Models Journal of Theoretical Biology 363:419-26 (2016) with Lei Zhao and Martin Lascoux. Inferring Host Range Dynamics from Comparative Data: The Protozoan Parasites of New World Monkeys American Naturalist 184:65-74 (2014) with Lucy Weinert and John Welch. Complete Numerical Solution of the Diffusion Equation of Random Genetic Drift Genetics 194: 973-985 (2013) with Lei Zhao and Xingye Yue. Population Growth Enhances the Mean Fixation Time of Neutral Mutations and the Persistence of Neutral Variation Genetics 191: 561-577 (2012) A Unified Treatment of the Probability of Fixation When Population Size and the Strength of Selection Change Over Time Genetics 188: 907-913 (2011) Is Life Impossible? Information, Sex and the Origin of Complex Organisms Evolution 64: 3300-3309 (2010) with Joel Peck Fundamental Insights into the Random Movement of Animals from a Single Distance-Related Statistic American Naturalist 174: 506-514 (2009) with Pierre Nouvellet and Jonathan Bacon Pleiotropic Scaling of Gene Effects and the 'Cost of Complexity' Nature 452: 470-472 (2008) with Günter Wagner, Jane Kenney-Hunt, Mihaela Pavlicev, Joel Peck and James Cheverud Fisher's Microscope and Haldane's Ellipse American Naturalist 166: 447-457 (2005) with John Welch Sympatric Speciation by Sexual Conflict PNAS 99, 10533-10538 (2002) with Sergey Gavrilets Mutation and Sex in a Competitive World Nature 406: 399-403 (2000) with Joel Peck Pleiotropy and the Preservation of Perfection Science 279: 1210-1213 (1998) with Joel Peck Why do Asexual and Self Fertilizing Populations Tend to Occur in Marginal Environments Nature 391: 889-892 (1998) with Joel Peck and John Yearsley