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Dr. Wendy Grus Dr. Wendy Grus received her undergraduate degrees in Ecology and Chemistry from the University of Georgia. Wendy studied the evolution of the vomeronasal system, a vertebrate smelling system, in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan, where she earned her PhD. Her dissertation research focused on gene family evolution based on genes mined from publicly available vertegrate whole genome sequence. Additionally, she has done research on molecular systematics and population genetics of birds and pseudogene evolution. She has co-authored peer-reviewed research papers and reviews for top-tier journals and has shared oral and poster presentations at the annual meetings for the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, and the Society for the Study of Evolution. Earning her PhD from a lab with 80% non-native English speakers, Wendy has extensive experience editing scientific manuscripts to improve their English. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, where she is trying to understand how differences in orthologous chemoreceptor sequence (both intra and inter-specific) translates into differences in chemoreceptor function. Wendy’s experiences have given her thorough knowledge of experimental and computational biology tools to study evolution, comparative genomics, genetics, population genetics, ecology, and neuroscience. |