about

I am Stephen A. Smith and this site provides information on my research, projects, and various resources. CV

I am currently a postdoc at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) . I completed my dissertation in August of 2008 at Yale University in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dept. under Michael Donoghue. I am a phylogenetic biologist and my current research includes:

Much of my research requires programming and I program with proficiency in C, C++, Java, and Python and those software projects and algorithms are presented here.

My scientific blog is linked here. Find me on IRC (at irc.freenode.net and #sandwalk)

news

  • 5/10/09 — awarded the John Spangler Nicholas prize for outstanding doctoral candidate at Yale University
  • 4/9/09 — paper published in J. of Biogeography — Cellinese, N., S. A. Smith, E. J. Edwards, S. T. Kim, R. C. Haberle, M. Avramakis and M. J. Donoghue. 2009. Historical biogeography of the endemic Campanulaceae of Crete. Journal of Biogeography. link
  • 3/12/09 — returned from teaching at the Applied Phylogenetics Course at Bodega Bay
  • 2/26/09 — BMC paper listed as “Highly accessed”
  • 2/13/09 — featured paper on BMC Evol Bio website link
  • 2/11/09 — paper published in BMC Evol Bio — Smith, S. A., J. Beaulieu, and M. J. Donoghue. 2009.  Mega-phylogeny approach for comparative biology: an alternative to supertree and supermatrix approaches. BMC Evol. Biol. link
  • 2/9/09 — mentioned in Science Times in the New York Times link
  • 1/19/09 — paper published in American Naturalist – Evans, M. E., S. A. Smith, R. E. Flynn and M. J. Donoghue. 2009. “Climate, niche evolution, and diversification of the “bird-cage” evening primroses (Oenothera, sections Anogra and Kleinia). American Naturalist. pdf