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Physical & Biological Sciences Division
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
Associate Professor
Faculty
Genomics Institute
Regular Faculty
Evolution
Genetics
Genomics
Population Biology
Microbiology
CSC Coastal Biology Building
272
CBB/EE Biology
BS, Biology, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela (2000)
MS, Ecology and Population Biology, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas, Venezuela (2004)
PhD, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Emory University (2009)
Postdoc, Genetics, Cornell University (2009-2010)
Postdoc, Genetics, Stanford University (2010-2013)
Understanding how evolutionary processes that have shaped host and microbe genomes can increase our ability to predict organismal health and disease. In our lab we study how natural selection drives the adaptation of microbes to their hosts and how hosts develop disease resistance. We focus on the evolutionary context (historical demographics and especial geological and anthropological events) under which selection drives the gain or loss of genetic variants using study systems in humans, microbiomes, malarial parasites, and plants.
Population Genetics, Evolutionary Medicine, Evolutionary genetics
BIOE-172/272, BIOE-183, BIOE-279
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