About

I am a recent PhD graduate from UC Davis, mentored by Graham Coop. My PhD research focuses on how we can use ‘admixture’, or genetic mixing, between different populations to tell us about natural selection and the genomic loci important to fitness. I have developed novel statistical methods to infer selection in admixed populations and applied these methods to better understand the genetics of high-altitude adaptation in maize and resilience in honey bees. Starting fall 2021, I will be joining the computational team at Adaptive Biotechnologies, applying statistics and genetics to cool problems in medicine and adaptive immunity!