FRESH POND RESEARCH INSTITUTE

STAFF

Steven Orzack, Ph.D.
President and Senior Research Scientist

Research Interests:

  • Demography
  • Population Dynamics
  • Population Genetics
  • Optimality modelling
  • Philosophy of biology
  • Conservation Biology

Education:

  • B.A. in Biology, The University of Rochester
  • Ph.D. in Biology, Harvard University

Grants:

  • National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1986 - 1989
  • National Science Foundation Grant, Molecular Evolution and Sex Ratio Evolution in the genus Nasonia, 1996 - 2000
  • National Science Foundation Grant, Adaptation, Phylogenetic Inertia, and Trait Independence, 2002 - 2003
  • National Science Foundation, Algorithmic Problems in Population-Scale Genomics, 2002 - 2005
  • National Institute of Aging Program Project Grant, Biodemographic Determinants of Life Span, 2003 - 2008
  • National Institute of Health Grant, Genetic Studies of Substance Abuse in Iowa Adoptees, 2004 - 2009
  • National Science Foundation Grant, Computational Population Genomics: Using Variation to Connect Genotypes to Phenotypes, 2005 - 2008
  • National Institute of Child Health & Human Development Grant, The Demographic Trajectory of the Sex Ratio in Human Pregnancy, 2008 - 2010
  • National Academies Keck Futures Initiatives Grant, Signatures of Healthspan in Humans, 2008 - 2010

Publications

Brian McLoone, Ph.D.
Research Scientist

Research Interests:

  • Philosophy of biology
  • Philosophy of science
  • Health Span and Life Span

Education:

  • B.A., Tufts University
  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Publications

Max Shpak, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist

Research Interests:

  • Population Dynamics
  • Population Genetics
  • Demography
  • Comparative Genomics

Education:

  • B.A., Cornell University
  • M.S., Yale University
  • Ph.D., Yale University

Publications

Andrew Bloch, Ph.D.
Research Scientist

Research Interests:

  • Behavioral Ecology

Education:

  • B.A., West Chester University
  • Ph.D., Lehigh University

Publications

Erik Johansson, B.A.
Research Scientist

Education:

  • B.A., Hamilton College

E. Castedo Ellerman, M.S.
Research Scientist

Education:

  • B.A., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • M.S., New York University

Publications

Website: castedo.com