Presentation: Solving the Evolutionary Mystery of the Clownfish-Sea Anemone Symbiosis

Bio: Ben is an evolutionary biologist interested in understanding how biodiversity evolves in tropical marine mutualisms. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alabama, and Senior Marine Scientist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab where he combines extensive field research with systematics and genomic approaches to understand symbiosis at all levels of biological organization. His work spans from broad order-level phylogenetics to phylogeography, species delimitation, population genetics, full genome sequencing, and behavioral ecology.