H. Frederik Nijhout

Department of Biology

Duke University

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Biology Department

Duke University

Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems (CNCS)

Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CB)^2

 

Research

My research, and that of my associates, is concerned with understanding regulatory processes in postembryonic development. We are also interested in the evolution of those processes, and the insights this can give us into the development and evolution of complex traits. We explore these problems in three specific (and interconnected) areas of investigation:

For an uptodate listing of recent papers go here

 
     
     

"Evolution on the Wing" ------a mural by Jonathan Kingdon-----