Alison Feder

Alison is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington where the lab focuses on the inference of evolutionary dynamics. Prior to that she
was a Miller Fellow in the labs of Oskar Hallatschek and Monty Slatkin at UC Berkeley. As a graduate student in the Petrov lab, Alison studied the evolutionary dynamics of rapidly adapting intra-patient pathogen populations through time and space. She did her undergraduate work in mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania with Joshua Plotkin and earned her MSc at Oxford studying statistical genetics in the group of Gil McVean.  is a graduate student in the Petrov Lab. She did her undergraduate work in mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania with Joshua Plotkin and spent a year at Oxford studying statistical genetics in the group of Gilean McVean. Alison is interested in the evolutionary dynamics of rapid adaptation over time and across space, and in particular how these processes play out in pathogen populations evolving drug resistance within their hosts. Her personal website is here.