Alexandra "Sasha" GavryushkinaI am interested in developing statistical and computational methods to study genomics and evolution. My current project involves developing and testing variant scoring methods that are used in genotype-phenotype studies. In particular, I apply these methods to classify non-coding variation in human and other organisms' genomes. I work in Paul Garnder's group at Otago University. I am also interested in developing methods for Bayesian phylogenetic inference. These methods are applicable to a variety of problems in epidemiology, immunology and macroevolution. Previously, I have worked in Tanja Stadler's group. I have a PhD degree in Computational biology from the University of Auckland (supervised by Alexei Drummond) and a PhD degree in Mathematics from Novosibirsk State University (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics). |