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Professor of Biology and Associate Chair of the Biology Department, Stanford University

mitri Petrov is a Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of Biology and Associate Chair of the Biology Department. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Harvard University under the guidance of Daniel Hartl and Richard Lewontin. He was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Research Fellow in the Genetics Department at Harvard Medical School under the guidance of Chao-Ting Wu. Dmitri came to Stanford in 2000 as an Assistant Professor. Petrov Lab does theoretical, computational and experimental work to address questions in molecular evolution and molecular population genomics. The primary focus at the moment is on (i) population genetics and molecular mechanisms of adaptation and (ii) genome evolution.