Center for Molecular CompBio, Brown University
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Welcome to my research homepage. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Ecology And Evolutionary Biology and the Center for Computational Molecular Biology at Brown University, where I am a member of the Ramachandran Lab. My research focuses on the application and development of both computational and statistical tools for the analysis of human genomic data. The questions I am interested in typically cross the boundaries of population, medical, and evolutionary genetics.
Current projects include:
- Pathway and epistasis analysis in multiple human ethnic groups
- Methodological frameworks for multiethnic GWAS
- Polygenic adaptation of height in European populations
- Targeted gene-exome sequencing and rare-variant analysis in relation to HIV-infection
Recent and past projects include:
- Bayesian multivariate analysis of large-scale GWAS summary statistics
- The deleterious mutation load in European and African-American populations
- Investigating the genetic architecture of human height
- Identifying signals of positive selection in Drosophila melanogaster reproductive proteins
My CV can be found here. Past research experiences include completing my PhD in Human Genetics with the Stephens Lab while a NRSA Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, working in the Pritchard Lab (50/50 with Stephens Lab) prior to its move to Stanford, the Hirschhorn Lab at Children's Hospital Boston prior to graduate school, and the Aquadro Lab at Cornell University while receiving my BS.
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