Postdoctoral research fellow in theoretical biology, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University. I work in Professor David Green's lab and you'll find some of my simulations at his Virtual Laboratory interests I'm interested in the origins of diversity at several scales - including species in ecosystems, ecotypes within species, cultural variation among people, and different types of cells within individual bodies. I also study the interaction between evolution and self-organization in networks more generally, especially the co-evolution of social structures and individual behavior. I mostly use agent-based and cellular automata models. email Suzanne.Sadedin[at]infotech.monash.edu.au phone +613 9905 3298 office Room 225 Building 63.

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Publications

• Sadedin, S., Paperin, G., and Leishman, T. (eds.) 2008. Proceedings of the 12th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems.
• Green, D.G., Klomp, N.I., Rimmington, G.R. & Sadedin, S. 2006. Complexity in Landscape Ecology. Amsterdam: Springer-Verlag. Amazon

• Sadedin, S. 2008. Evolution of neutral memeplexes in a spatially explicit agent-based model. Proceedings, The 12th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems.
• Green, D.G., Sadedin, S. and Leishman, T.G. 2008. Systems Theory - Self-Organization. Pp. 3195-3203 in S.E. Jørgensen & B. Fath, eds. Encyclopedia of Ecology Vol. 4, Elsevier.
• Paperin, G., Green, D.G., Sadedin, S. and Leishman, T.G. 2007. A dual phase evolution model of adaptive radiation in landscapes. Proceedings, 3rd Australian Conference on Artificial Life, Gold Coast, Australia.
• Paperin, G., Green, D.G., Sadedin, S. and Leishman, T.G. 2007. Complexity in speciation: Effects of disasters on adaptive radiation in a dual phase evolution model. Proceedings, 8th Asia-Pacific Complex Systems Conference, Brisbane, Australia.
• Briscoe, G. and Sadedin, S. 2007. Natural science paradigms. In F. Nachira, P. Dini, A.Nicolai, M.Le Louarn, L.Rivera Leon (eds.) Digital Business Ecosystems. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. pp.34-41.
• Briscoe, G., Sadedin, S. and Paperin, G. 2007. Ecology of applied digital ecosystems. Proceedings, IEEE International Digital Ecosystems and Technologies Conference, Cairns, Australia.
• Green, D.G., Leishman, T.G. and Sadedin, S. 2007. The emergence of social consensus in Boolean networks. Proceedings, IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Green, D.G., Leishman, T.G. and Sadedin, S. 2006. The emergence of social consensus in simulation studies with Boolean networks. Proceedings, PAAA World Congress on Social Simulation, Kyoto, Japan.
• Leishman, T.G., Green, D.G., and Sadedin, S. 2006. Dual phase evolution: a mechanism for self-organization in complex systems. Interjournal Complex Systems, 1861. download
• Sadedin, S. 2006. Adaptation and self-organization in spatial models of speciation. Interjournal Complex Systems, 1632. download
• Sadedin, S. 2006. A simple model for the evolution of irreducible complexity. Technical report, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University. download
• Green, D.G. and Sadedin, S. 2005. Interactions matter: complexity in landscapes and ecosystems. Ecological Complexity 2, 117-130.
• Sadedin, S. 2005. Selection, space and diversity: What can biological speciation tell us about the evolution of modularity? Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3611, 1131-1144.
• Halley, J.D., Warden, A.C., Sadedin, S. and Li, W. 2004. Rapid self-organized criticality: Fractal evolution in extreme environments. Physical Review E, 036118.
• Sadedin, S., Dybiec, B., and Briscoe, G. 2003. A toy model of faith-based systems evolution. Physica A 323, 715-725. download
• Sadedin, S. and Littlejohn, M.J. 2003. A spatially explicit individual-based model of reinforcement in hybrid zones. Evolution 57, 962-970. download
• Sadedin, S., Dybiec, B., and Briscoe, G. 2002. Evolution of faith-based systems. In CSSS 2002 Students Papers, Santa Fe Institute.
• Sadedin, S. and Elgar, M.A. 1998. The influence of flock size and geometry on the scanning behaviour of spotted turtle doves, Streptopelia chinensis. Australian Journal of Ecology 23, 177-180.

• Sadedin, S. 2004. Spatially explicit agent-based models of speciation by reinforcement and cultural evolution. Ph.D. Thesis, Monash University.
• Sadedin, S. 1999. An individual-based model of frog hybrid zone evolution, with implications for the reinforcement hypothesis. Honours thesis, Melbourne University.

History

• 1994 - 1999 BA/BSc(Hons: Zoology) The University of Melbourne. Majors: Psychology and Zoology. Honours advisor: Professor Murray Littlejohn
• 2000 - 2004 Ph.D. School of Biological Sciences, Monash University. Advisors: Professor Martin Burd and Professor Murray Littlejohn
• 2005 onwards. Research fellow, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University
• 2007 Postdoctoral research associate, Gavrilets Lab , Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee

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