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Jeffrey Townsend

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Jeffrey Townsend
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InstitutionsYale School of Public Health

Jeffrey P. Townsend is an American biostatistician and evolutionary biologist. He is currently the Elihu Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the Yale School of Public Health at Yale University.[1][2]

Townsend earned a Bachelor of Science in biology from Brown University in 1994. He completed his Ph.D. in organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard University in 2002 under the direction of Daniel Hartl.[3][4] After receiving his doctoral degree, Townsend was a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked in the lab of John W. Taylor.[3]

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  1. ^ Khamsi, Roxanne. "The Pandemic Set Off a Boom in Diagnostics". Scientific American. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  2. ^ "Townsend Lab Receives $4 Million Grant to Study Fungal Evolution". ysph.yale.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  3. ^ a b "Jeffrey Townsend, PhD". ysph.yale.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  4. ^ L. Hartl, Daniel (2019). "Q & A with Daniel L. Hartl, Recipient of the 2019 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal". Genetics. 212 (2): 361–363. doi:10.1534/genetics.119.302260. ISSN 0016-6731. PMC 6553830. PMID 31167897.
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