After studying ecology as a biology major at Swarthmore College, I learned fly pushing as a technician for Steve DiNardo and then discovered evolutionary genetics as a tech for Paul Schmidt. I joined Paul’s lab as a graduate student and earned my PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. In 2015 I completed my postdoctoral training with Matt Rockman at New York University and began my appointment at Georgia Tech.

Pronunciation: "anna-lisa poe-bee"

Samiksha became interested in evolution and quantitative genetics while working as an undergrad in Ian Dworkin's lab at McMaster University. After graduating with honors and a degree in molecular biology and genetics in 2016, she joined the Paaby lab and made the jump from flies to worms. She is investigating the functional and evolutionary consequences of variation in the early embryo.

Francisco earned his bachelor of science and licentiate in biochemistry and microbiology from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, where he graduated cum laude. He worked for eight years in industry in Guatemala, implementing and then providing consulting expertise for microbiology and molecular biology techniques in agricultural applications. He is now characterizing phenotypic and genetic variation in wild C. elegans.

Ling received her B.S. from Southwest Jiao Tong University and Georgia State University, then her M.S. in Biology from GSU, working with Casonya Johnson on defining molecular signatures of C. elegans glia using RNA-seq. In the Paaby lab, she is collaborating with the Heitsch group in Mathematics to characterize the role of RNA secondary structure in trait expression and evolution.

Avery began genetics research during her undergraduate training. After earning her B.A. in biology from Swarthmore College in 2012, she completed her PhD with Steve McCarroll at Harvard Medical School. Her graduate research focused on understanding genetic diversity in human sperm via the development and implementation of a single-sperm genome sequencing technology. She is now applying her computational genetics expertise to the allelic variation in C. elegans populations.

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