Wade Dismukes is a graduate candidate in the lab of Tracy Heath. He researches host-symbiont cophylogenetic methods using computers. Cophylogenetics deals with explaining congruence/incongruence between the phylogeny of two groups of ecologically related species. The most common example of this is between hosts and their symbionts (i.e. parasites or mutualists).
Wade is also a developer on the Revbayes phylogenetic software and is the author of the phylogenetic simulation R package, treeducken.
BSc in Biological Sciences, 2016
University of Missouri -
BSc in Mathematics, 2016
University of Missouri - Columbia
Wade is a developer on the RevBayes probabilistic programming language.
treeducken is an R package for coevolutionary simulation. At present treeducken can simulate cophylogenetic datasets (e.g. host phylogeny and symbiont phylogeny with extant associations), and gene tree species tree processes using the three-tree model similar to that used in the SimPhy program.