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Jevin West
Visiting Scholar
jevinw@u.washington.edu
206-905-9244

Jevin's general research focus is mathematical biology. More specifically, he is interested in the marriage between information and network theory with biology, addressing questions like how organisms process information obtained from their internal and external environment to produce adaptive behavior. This has implications for many biological processes, including the functioning of the immune system, the behavior of colonial organisms, the ontogeny of multicellular organisms, the coordination of physiological processes within neural (and non-neural) organisms, and the evolution of multicellularity.

Jevin is a post-doctoral researcher working in the Bergstrom Lab.  He is working on various projects that aim to answer the following question:  how does system structure - the way a system is connected - affect organismal or ecosystem function?  Currently, he is using citation networks as a model system for exploring this question, with the ultimate aim of understanding the ontogeny and dynamics of biological networks.

More info at http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/people/jevin/

The Eigenfactor Metrics: A Network Approach to Assessing Scholarly Journals, West, J. D., Bergstrom T. C., and Bergstrom C. T. , 2010, Volume 71, Issue 3, p. - 244, (2010)
How to improve the use of metrics: Learn from Game Theory, West, J. D. , 2010, Volume 465, p. - 872, (2010)
Big macs and Eigenfactor scores: Don't let correlation coefficients fool you, West, J., Bergstrom T., and Bergstrom C. T. , 2010, (2010)
Differences in Impact Factor Across Fields and Over Time, Althouse, B. M., West J. D., Bergstrom T., and Bergstrom C. T. , 2009, Volume 60, Issue 1, p. - 34, (2009)
The Eigenfactor Metrics: How does the Journal of Biological Chemistry stack up?, West, J. D., Stefaner M., and Bergstrom C. T. , 2009, p. - 21, (2009)
Coevolutionary cycling of host sociality and pathogen virulence in contact networks, Prado, F., Sheih A., West J. D., and Kerr B. , 2009, Volume 261, Issue 4, p. - -569Elsevier, (2009)
Assessing citations with the Eigenfactor Metrics, Bergstrom, C. T., and West J. D. , 2008, Volume 71, p. - 1851, (2008)
Dynamics of stomatal patches for a single surface of Xanthium strumarium L. leaves observed with fluorescence and thermal images, West, J. D., Peak D., Peterson J. Q., and Mott K. A. , 2005, Volume 28, Issue 5, p. - -641Wiley Online Library, (2005)
Evidence for complex, collective dynamics and emergent, distributed computation in plants, Peak, D., West J. D., Messinger S. M., and Mott K. A. , 2004, Volume 101, Issue 4, p.National Acad Sciences, (2004)