Research Interests
Social evolution in the cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium discoideum
Dr. Ostrowski is an accomplished microbial population biologist with experience on E. coli under experimental evolution regimes, and computational modeling of behavior using an in silico system, Evita. She has worked with Dictyostelium for 3 years, and has published two major papers on kin recognition in the species. She has been responsible for the resequencing of the 16 clones that make up the system for this proposal. She is very experienced with computational approaches to genome analysis
Selected Publications
- Ostrowski, EA, Katoh, M, Shaulsky, G, Queller, DC, and Strassmann, JE. 2008. Kin Discrimination Increases with Genetic Distance in a Social Amoeba. PLos Biology 6 (11):e287
- Ostrowski, E.A., Rozen, D.E., and R.E. Lenski. 2005. Pleiotropic effects of beneficial mutations in Escherichia coli. Evolution 59:2343-2352.
- Ostrowski, E.A., Ofria, C., and R.E. Lenski. 2007. Specialization and adaptive decay in digital organisms. The American Naturalist 169:E1-E20.
- Cooper, T.F., Ostrowski, E.A., and M. Travisano 2007. A negative relationship between mutation pleiotropy and fitness effect in yeast. Evolution 61:1495-1499
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