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As for my non-scientific interests: I love being outdoors – running, camping, hiking, kayaking, and exploring (which I hope to do this summer!). You might also find me drawing, painting, or looking at other people’s art, too. | As for my non-scientific interests: I love being outdoors – running, camping, hiking, kayaking, and exploring (which I hope to do this summer!). You might also find me drawing, painting, or looking at other people’s art, too. | ||
== What are your main interests? Feel free to include a "pie in the sky" big idea! == | |||
An incredible amount of information about the history of populations is contained in genetic data, if we can find it. I would like to work to develop more sophisticated and novel ways to analyze genomic data. New methods of analysis would allow us, for instance, to better understand the demography of a given population (or populations), the history of natural selection in a population, or a combination of these and other population processes. These new statistical and computational tools would ideally be able to be applied to a wide range of organisms, datasets, and problems. | |||
== What sort of expertise can you bring to the group? == | |||
== What do you hope to get out of the CSSS? == | |||
== Do you have any possible projects in mind for the CSSS? == | |||
Revision as of 04:04, 7 May 2010
Hi everyone! My name is Julie, and I’m a second year Ph.D. student in Biology in Marc Feldman’s lab at Stanford University. I’m also working towards my Masters in Statistics.
I am broadly interested in population genetics and the analysis of genetic data, both in the inference of demography as well as in the inference of selection. I am currently studying the migration of Mycobacterium tuberculosis among several Aboriginal Canadian populations using genetic data from bacterial isolates. Another of my projects involves examining genome-wide SNP data from several African populations. I am working to identify evidence of recent migration between the populations, as well as signatures of within each of the populations.
As for my non-scientific interests: I love being outdoors – running, camping, hiking, kayaking, and exploring (which I hope to do this summer!). You might also find me drawing, painting, or looking at other people’s art, too.
What are your main interests? Feel free to include a "pie in the sky" big idea!
An incredible amount of information about the history of populations is contained in genetic data, if we can find it. I would like to work to develop more sophisticated and novel ways to analyze genomic data. New methods of analysis would allow us, for instance, to better understand the demography of a given population (or populations), the history of natural selection in a population, or a combination of these and other population processes. These new statistical and computational tools would ideally be able to be applied to a wide range of organisms, datasets, and problems.