W Kelley Thomas

W. Kelley Thomas received his Ph.D. in 1988 from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, until 1993, when he became an assistant professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA. He is currently a professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA, and Director of the Hubbard Center for Genome Studies, Durham, New Hampshire, USA. His current work includes using high-throughput sequencing technologies to investigate basic rates and patterns of error proliferation in genetic systems, and the consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem function.