Greetings. You have found the website of one Daniel Avery Pollard (that red-headed fellow over to the right).

I have relocated from the left to the right coast. Tough trade but it's going OK. New York City is an amazingly fun place so come and visit.

When I'm not catching a show or spending my life's savings on some NYC cuisine, I'm usually at NYU, as a Postdoc in Matt Rockman's lab in the Center for Genomics and Systems Biology.

My research interests fall in the general area of the evolution of development and the origins of organismal diversity. I am currently focused on the quantitative and evolutionary genetics of gene expression variation, in nematodes (worms) and arthropods (insects).

A scientist only I am not. Music is one of my other great passions. Between playing in an experimental rock band (Spouse), working on my own solo project (Taxon) and helping run a small indie record label (Pigeon Records), I keep my creative self largely satisfied. Perhaps nothing is as rewarding as sharing life with my fiancee Suzanne Lee and our two cats August and Gilbert.