Carl Bergstrom is an associate professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington, and a member of the External Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute. His research interests range from animal communication to disease evolution to population epigenetics to bibliometrics to whatever the other members of his group are working on at the moment.

Jevin West is a Ph.D. student working to incorporate information theory and network theory into a broader understanding of biological evolution. Jevin is the driving force behind the Eigenfactor project and other network-based approach to bibliometric analysis. At the same time, he is involved in a number of theoretical biology projects, the development of a microfluidic system for bacterial population genetics, and a set of laboratory experiments testing the response of phage to variation in host susceptibility.

Jake Cooper is a Ph.D. student interested in evolutionary games: concepts like prisoner's dilemma, the evolution of mutation rates, and sex ratios. He studies the evolutionary dynamics of these "games" by mathematical modeling and experimental microbial evolution.

Sterling Sawaya is a Ph.D. student interested in understanding how information gets into the genome. He is currently researching the importance of localized mutation rates, bet-hedging strategies, and implicit information in the genome. He uses bioinformatics and analytical modeling to investigate the role of mutation in evolutionary processes.

Daril Vilhena. Daril is Ph.D. student and the most recent member of the lab.

Former lab members

Martin Rosvall. Networks and the flow of information. Postdoc, 2006-2008.

Matina Donaldson. Evolutionary ecology of uncertainty and information. Ph.D. 2008.

Ben Althouse. Infectious disease modeling. B.S. 2008.