Short Biosketch:
Received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University in 1995,
and then spent 5 years at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, UC Berkeley,
and Los Alamos National Laboratories on a Hitchings-Elion Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust,
and a Director's Fellowship from LANL. Following this he sent 6 years at Louisiana State
University. Dr. Pollock's research interests are in evolutionary genomics and molecular
evolution, particularly the interaction between protein sequence, structure, and function,
and molecular coevolution within and between proteins. Computational approaches include
development of phylogeny-based context-dependent likelihood and Bayesian approaches to
analysis of sequence evolution, "conditional pathways", MCMC, mixture models, hidden Markov
models, Markov random fields, mathematical analysis of population genetics, simulation,
and molecular dynamic and lattice-based evaluation of protein stability and function in
a thermodynamic context. Current study systems include vertebrate mitochondrial genomes,
cytochrome oxidase, photolyase, HIV protease, and lysozyme, and I am a founding member of
consortia to analyze the upcoming Monodelphis domestica and Anolis carolinensis complete
genomes.