Grant Kinsler

Grant Kinsler was a Graduate Student in the Petrov Lab (2016-2022). He was using a combination of mathematical models and experimental evolution to uncover the mechanisms of adaptation to new environments, and how these mechanisms influence fitness in other environments. He specifically focused on building abstract genotype-phenotype-fitness maps. Grant did his undergraduate work in applied mathematics at Harvard University. There, he worked with Martin Nowak on mathematical models of evolutionary dynamics, particularly those involving prelife and the origin of life.

He is now doing a postdoc in the Raj lab at UPenn where he is focusing on how the identity and function of adaptive mutations in somatic evolution and cancer vary across cellular and environmental contexts.