Research
Identity by Descent
Dissertation Projects
- Project 1: Modeling recent positive selection using identity-by-descent segments (pre-print)
- Identity by descent in large samples
- A central limit theorem for the IBD rate
- Enormous simulations using a new algorithm
- Work w/ Elizabeth A. Thompson, Sharon R. Browning
- Project 3: Multiple testing for IBD-based selection scan
Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project
- Pipeline to phase, call local ancestry, and detect IBD
- Proposal:IBD mapping case/control association
- Work w/ Timothy Thornton, Ellen Wijsman, and Elizabeth Blue
Improving the FLARE software
Evolution of SARS-CoV-2
Time series modeling of variant fitness
Chromosome biology of synonymous amino acid mutations
Work w/ Matsen group at the Fred Hutch
Mosquito Vectors
Bayesian time-varying occupancy model for West Nile virus in Ontario, Canada
Updated distribution maps of predominant Culex mosquitoes across the Americas