Carl Bergstrom. Carl is an associate professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington, and a member of the External Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute. His research interests range from animal communication to disease evolution to population epigenetics to bibliometrics to whatever the other members of his group are working on at the moment.

Martin Rosvall. Martin is a postdoc with a background in the dynamics of network formation and fucntion, and a particular interest in communication networks. At the University of Washington, he is working to integrate information theory with the theory of complex networks.

Matina Donaldson. Matina is a Ph.D. student who studies how organisms evolve to use information. She has developed mathematical models of (1) the evolution of communication and (2) the evolution of strategies for making use of unreliable cues about the environment.

Jevin West. Jevin is a Ph.D. student working to incorporate information theory and network theory into a broader understanding of biological evolution. He is currently involved in a network-based approach to bibliometric analysis, and a set of laboratory experiments testing the response of phage to variation in host susceptibility.

Ben Althouse. Ben is an undergraduate student pursuing a double major in mathematics and biochemistry. He is currently using network theory to map the structure of scientific research and publication. In the coming year, he will be exploring network approaches to modeling epidemic transmission of diseases such as pandemic influenza.

Former lab members

Diane Genereux. Cellular population epigenetics. Ph.D. 2005.