Active People

Current researchers in the lab.

Portrait of Peter Beerli.

Peter Beerli

Professor

Works on population genetics, coalescent inference, computational statistics, and scientific software development.

Portrait of Yifan Wang.

Yifan Wang

Graduate Student

Works on multi-strain phylodynamics problems.

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Past lab members and collaborators who shaped the group.

Somayeh Mashayekhi

Postdoctoral Researcher

Worked on the fractional coalescent and related population genetic inference methods.

Kyle Shaw

Graduate Student

Worked on sequencing-error models and inference problems connected to population genetics.

Marjan Sadeghi

Graduate Student

Contributed to research and software around MIGRATE and population genetic inference.

Marzieh "Tara" Khodaei

Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher

Developed the TopicContml framework for genome-wide phylogeny inference and the pathtrees tree-space visualization tool.

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Justin Bricker

Research Collaborator

Contributed to population genetic and computational work connected to the lab.

Haleh Ashki

Research Collaborator

Worked on network and epidemiological modeling linked to statistical genetics.

Michal Palczewski

Research Collaborator

Contributed to population model comparison and software development around MIGRATE.

Grant Macdonnell

Research Collaborator

Contributed to research at the interface of inference methods and population genetics.

Sonali Joshi

Research Collaborator

Worked with the lab on research related to evolutionary and population genetic questions.