Prof. Boris Keller

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Laurent Keller

Laurent Keller is a professor at the University of Lausanne, where he directs the Department of Ecology and Evolution. After his PhD in Lausanne, he completed a postdoc with E.O. Wilson at Harvard and then returned to Bern and Lausanne with a special research and teaching grant from the Swiss NSF. He then applied with Nicolas Perrin to share a chair in the Department of Ecology in Lausanne; fol...

Boris Dubin

Boris Ephrussi (1901-1979)

Boris Ephrussi studied fruit flies, yeast, and mouse [3] genetics and development while working in France and the US during the twentieth century. In yeast, Ephrussi studied how mutations in the cytoplasm persisted across generations. In mice he studied the genetics of hybrids and the development of cancer. Working with George Wells Beadle [4] on the causes of different eye colors in fruit flie...

Breakdowns ∗ Godfrey Keller

We study a continuous-time game of strategic experimentation in which the players try to assess the failure rate of some new equipment or technology. Breakdowns occur at the jump times of a Poisson process whose unknown intensity is either high or low. In marked contrast to existing models, we find that the cooperative value function does not exhibit smooth pasting at the efficient cut-off beli...