Olivia Fernflores

August 03, 2024 00:03:30
Olivia Fernflores
KXCI Community Radio
Olivia Fernflores

Aug 03 2024 | 00:03:30

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Show Notes

Hello! My name is Olivia and I am a rising senior at the University of Arizona majoring in Information Science, Bioinformatics, and Molecular and Cellular Biology. I work in Dr. Ryan Gutenkunst’s lab studying population genetics. My most recent project involves inferring demographic histories and distributions of fitness effects of populations of wild house mice. To do this, I used genomic data and computational methods to learn about how the populations of mice have changed over time (growing, shrinking, how long ago did they divergere, etc.) and how correlated the effects of mutations are between pairs of populations. Our hope…

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