
Joe Lachance
Associate professor
Research focus: population genetics and human evolutionary genomics
joseph.lachance@biology.gatech.edu

Eaaswarkanth Muthukrishnan
Postdoc
Research focus: natural selection and evolutionary medicine

Melanie Quiver
PhD student (Biology)
Research focus: eQTLs and natural selection
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Rohini Janivara
PhD student (Bioinformatics)
Research focus: cancer genetics
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Aaron Pfennig
PhD student (QBioS)
Research focus: genetics of admixture and introgression
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Ujani Hazra
PhD student (Bioinformatics)
Research focus: transferability of genetic risk scores
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Lyda “Mimi” Holness
Research technician
Research focus: evolutionary genetics and data visualization

Jiyeong Choi
MS student (bioinformatics)
Research focus: generalizability of GWAS results

Joel Vaz
MS student (Bioinformatics)
Research focus: polygenic risk scores

Saanika Tambe
MS student (Bioinformatics)
Research focus: allele ages

Tarek Hachad
MS student (Bioinformatics)
Research focus: local ancestry inference

Nia Meadows
MS student (Bioinformatics)
Research focus: shifts in polygenic risk scores

Nuno Carvalho
Undergradaute (Biomedical Engineering)
Research focus: genetic architecture of complex traits

Medina McCowin
Undergraduate (Biology)
Research focus: cancer genetics

Joey Hassett
Undergraduate (Computer Science)
Research focus: genomic databases

Dhruuv Devani
Undergraduate (Computer Science)
Research focus: genomic databases

Alfred Russel Wallace
Lab Mascot
Research focus: mammals in the family Sciuridae

Lachance Lab Alumni
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