Sergey Gavrilets

EDUCATION

1987 Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics (specialization in Biomathematics), Moscow State University
1982 B.S. in Physics (specialization in Biophysics), Moscow State University, USSR

POSITIONS

2007-present Distinguished Professor, Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2003-present Professor, Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1999-2003 Associate Professor, Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1995-1999 Assistant Professor, Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1992-1995 post-doctoral researcher, Division of Environmental Studies, University of California, Davis
1991-1992 post-doctoral fellow, Laboratoire de Genetique Cellulaire, INRA Toulouse, FRANCE
1987-1991 researcher, N.I.Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Moscow, USSR

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

2008: University of Perpignan, FRANCE
2006: University of Konstanz, GERMANY
2004: Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, FRANCE
2004: Universite de Montpellier II, FRANCE
2001: Center for the Study of Evolution, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
1999: Department of Plant Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Utrecht, The NETHERLANDS
1999: Istituto di Genetica Biochimica ed Evoluzionistica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pavia, ITALY
1997: Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Universite P. et M. Curie, Paris, FRANCE
1997: Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris, FRANCE
1991: Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Utrecht, The NETHERLANDS

AWARDS

Science Alliance Research Award (1998,1999,2000,2001)
Research and Creative Achievement Award (UT, 2001)
American Society of Naturalists President's award (1999)
Research and Creative Achievement Award (College of Arts and Sciences, UT, 2005)
Guggenheim fellowship (2008)

MAJOR GRANTS

1998-2000 National Institutes of Health grant "New approaches to the modeling of speciation"
1999-2001 National Institutes of Health grant "Short Courses on Mathematics of Biological Complexity"
2001-2005 National Institutes of Health grant "New approaches to the modeling of speciation"
2001-2006. National Science Foundation grant "The origin of barriers to fertilization and their role in speciation: from populations to proteins" (Integrated Research Challenges in Environmental Biology program)
2005-2009 National Institutes of Health grant "New approaches to the modeling of speciation"

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1982-1991. Reviewer of the Soviet analog of the Biological Abstracts (sections entitled "Mathematical Biology and Theoretical Modeling of Biological Processes" and "Biometry").

Manuscripts Reviewed for:

Nature, Science, PLoS Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, American Naturalist, Annals of Botany, Behavioral Ecology, BioEssays, BioSystems, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Conservation Genetics, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Environmental Conservation, Europhysics Letters, European Physical Journal B, Evolution, Evolutionary Theory, Genetica, Genetical Research, Genetics, Genetics Selection and Evolution, Hereditas, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Mathematical Biosciences, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Nonlinear Analysis, Physical Review E, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Theoretical Population Biology, Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

Grants Reviewed for:

National Science Foundation (USA)
Natural Environment Research Council (UK)
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
Swiss National Science Foundation
Royal Society of New Zealand (Marsden Fund)
Israel Science Foundation
Australian Research Council 

Organizer:
    * workshop "Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics" at the 3rd Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Hungary, 1991;
   *  workshop "Complexity in Evolutionary Biology: Genetic Algorithms, Cellular Automata and Adaptive Landscapes". Knoxville, 2000;
   * mini-symposium "Evolutionary theory" at the Society of Mathematical Biology meeting in Knoxville, 2002;
   * mini-symposium "Genetic diversification by frequency-dependent
selection: theoretical  approaches and empirical facts" at the ESEB Congress in Krakow, Poland, 2005;
   * workshop "Spatial heterogeneity in biotic and abiotic environment: effects on species ranges, co-evolution, and speciation" at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, February, 2006

Organizing Committee, Society for the Study of Evolution meeting in Knoxville, 2001
Organizing Committee, Society of Mathematical Biology meeting in Knoxville, 2002.

Associate Editor of American Naturalist, 2002-2006.
Associate Editor of Evolution, 2003-2006.
Associate Editor of BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2005-present.

Recent seminars:

2001  
-Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA
-Department of Biology, University College London, UK
-School of Biological Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
-Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution, UC Los Angeles
-Department of Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, UK
-Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London, UK
-Department of Biology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
-Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK
-Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago.
-Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Tohoku University, Sendai, JAPAN.
-Graduate School of Agriculture and Agricultural Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, JAPAN.
-Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, JAPAN.
   
2002  
-Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2003
-Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
-Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis
-Inst. of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK
-Department of Biology, University of Sheffield, UK
-School of Biological Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
-Department of Biology, University College London, UK

2004  
-Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse
-Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Pennsylvania State University
-Department of Biology, University of Texas, Arlington
-Lab. d'Ecologie, Systematique et Evolution, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, FRANCE
-Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Universite P. et M. Curie, Paris, FRANCE
-Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle
-Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Leiden, The NETHERLANDS
-Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University

2005 
-Institute of Zoology, University of Bern, SWITZERLAND
-Department of Biology, Dartmouth College
-Department of Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University, SWEDEN
-Department of Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, UK
-Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK
-Department of Biology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, JAPAN
-Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University, JAPAN
-Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University
-Department of Mathematics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces

2006
-Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, GERMANY
-Department of Biology, Unversity of Munich, GERMANY
-Inst. of Integrative Biology, Federal Inst. of Technology, Zurich, SWITZERLAND
-Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Basel, SWITZERLAND
-Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, UK
-Lab. d'Ecologie, Systematique et Evolution, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, FRANCE
-Dept. of Mathematics and Computational Science&Engineering Center, UC Davis
-Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Recent talks at conferences/workshops/meetings:

2001 
-*Northern Yorkshire Evolutionary Ecology meeting. Leeds. UK.
-Society for the Study of Evolution. Knoxville.
-*Society of Population Ecology. Yamagata. JAPAN.

2002 
-*Conference "Distribution, diversity, and evolutionary dynamics", 
Charlottesville, Virginia.
-*European Society of Theoretical and Mathematical Biology. Milan. ITALY.
-*Society of Mathematical Biology. Knoxville.
-*Workshop "Mathematical population genetics and statistical physics", The Erwin  Schrodinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, AUSTRIA

2003
-*Society for the Study of Evolution. Chico.
-European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Leeds, UK.

2004  
-*Symposium "Sympatric speciation", Groningen, The NETHERLANDS.

2005  
-*The Royal Society meeting "Sexual conflict: a new paradigm", London, UK.
-Society for the Study of Evolution. Fairbanks.
-*European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Krakow. POLAND.
-*Japanese Society for Evolution, Sendai, JAPAN
-*International Symposium "Integrating micro- and macroevolutionary studies of evolution", Leiden, The NETHERLANDS.
-*International Symposium "Molecular ecology and evolution", Lund, SWEDEN

2006  
-*Workshop "Spatial heterogeneity in biotic and abiotic environment", Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Columbus.
-*American Genetics Association Annual Symposium ("Genetics of Speciation"'), Vancouver, CANADA
-*Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle
-*International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, Perpignan, FRANCE
-*International conference "History and mathematics", Moscow, RUSSIA

* - invited speaker or symposium/minisymposium speaker

Publications