Education:

Now in New Mexico.

1998-present Postdoctoral Research Scholar. Division of Insects. Department of Zoology. The Field Museum, Chicago, IL .
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Department of Biological Sciences. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.

1997-1998 Research Associate Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy. The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

1992-1995 Postdoctoral Fellow Institute of Cell, Animal, and Population Biology. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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Department of Biology.
University College London, London, UK.

1992 Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
University of Rochester.

1989 M.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. University of Rochester.

1984 B.A. Major: Biology, Minor: Chemistry. Florida State University.

Publications in Ballard Lab:

Ballard, J.W.O. and A.C. James. 2004. Differential fitness of mitochondrial DNA in perturbation cage studies correlates with global abundance and population history in Drosophila simulans. Proc. R. Soc. of Lond. B 271: 1197-1201.

James, A.C. and J. W. O. Ballard. 2003. Mitochondrial haplotype affects fitness in Drosophila simulans. Genetics 164: 173-186.

James, A.C. , M. D. Dean, M. E. McMahon, and J. W. O. Ballard. 2002. Dynamics of double and single Wolbachia infections in Drosophila simulans from New Caledonia. Heredity 88: 182-189.

Ballard, J.W.O. , B. Chernoff, and A.C. James. 2002. Divergence of mitochondrial DNA is not corroborated by nuclear DNA, morphology, or behavior in Drosophila simulans. Evolution 56: 527-545.

James, A.C. and J.W.O. Ballard. 2000. Expression of cytoplasmic incompatibility in Drosophila simulans and its impact on infection frequencies and distribution of Wolbachia pipientis. Evolution 54: 1661-1672.