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MSc Jonathan Henry Kidner
Research Interests
While we have used deterministic simulations to understand the impact of different modes of sexual reproduction on the interaction of hosts and parasites, the current emphasis is on implementing stochastic models within this topic. Currently, this involves the development of a full-network model of the host. From which we identify the Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS) for the host recombination rate (each host entity contains a genetic representation of the parasite interaction model as well as a mutatable rate of recombination).
We aim to use this model to test the results from an earlier deterministic simulation and population genetic equations on the Red Queen Hypothesis (RQH).
Curriculum vitae
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- English (native speaker)
Education
- 2008 - 2009, Masters by research in Computational Biology at the University of York, thesis: "The development of a nutritional geometric framework model within swarming locusts."
- 2006 - 2007, Master of Science in Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis at the University of Edinburgh, thesis: "Testing for the effect of Hill-Robertson interference on the fourth chromosome of Drosophila simulans."
- 2002 - 2005, Bachelor of Science in Environmental Biology (2:1) at Reading University.