Sarah Otto
Sarah Perin "Sally" Otto FRSC (born October 23, 1967) is a theoretical biologist, Canada Research Chair in Theoretical and Experimental Evolution, and is currently a Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia. From 2008-2016, she was the director of the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. Otto was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. In 2015 the American Society of Naturalists gave her the Sewall Wright Award for fundamental contributions to the unification of biology. In 2021, she was awarded the Darwin–Wallace Medal for contributing major advances to the mathematical theory of evolution.
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| Born | Sarah Perin Otto October 23, 1967 |
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| Institutions | University of British Columbia University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | Evolution in sexual organisms: the role of recombination, ploidy level, and nonrandom mating (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Marcus Feldman |
| Other academic advisors | Nick Barton |
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