Marc Feldman's Lab

Stanford University

Current Lab Members

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Larry Bond | lab administrator

Email me at lbond [at] stanford [dot] edu.

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Kaleda Denton | postdoc

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I am a postdoc in the Feldman lab. My research focuses on the cultural evolution of conformist and anti-conformist transmission, and gene-culture co-evolution of altruism. I received my Bachelor of Science in Ecology, Behavior and Evolution from UCLA in 2014. There, I researched foraging behaviors in ants, birdsong syntax, and human morality.

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May Levin | research assistant

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May Levin is an undergraduate at Stanford University studying Computer Science with a specialization in Biocomputation and AI.

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Elisa Heinrich Mora | phd student

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Elisa is a 1st year PhD Student in the Biology Department.


Javier Blanco Portillo | phd candidate

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I’m a 5th year Biology PhD candidate working under the supervision of Prof. Marcus Feldman and Prof. Alexander Ioannidis. Funded by Stanford’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF), my current interests are:

• To expand upon our historical analysis of Polynesian settlement patterns, incorporating these insights into precision medicine strategies tailored to admixed minority populations who remain underrepresented in modern genomic databases.

• To extend the study of gene-culture coevolution, leveraging datasets across diverse disciplines to illuminate the dynamic relationships between genes, culture, and ecology.

• To help understand the evolution of languages by borrowing techniques from population genetics.

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Michael E. Palmer, Ph.D. | visiting scholar

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Mike has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Physics from Yale University.

Mike is writing a book entitled The Evolution of Evolvability: the Recursive Macroevolution of Clades. He rejoined the Feldman lab in 2022 as a Visiting Scholar, having been a Research Associate in the lab 10+ years ago.

Mike has also spent time in the tech industry in Silicon Valley in a series of startup companies, and does some machine learning applied to genomics.

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Sven Kasser | visiting phd student

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Joshua C. McDonald | visiting phd student