Omer received his Ph.D. at University of Pennsylvania under Dr. Theodore Schurr and studied with Dr. Charles Lee at Harvard Medical School in Harvard Medical School before establishing the laboratory. He is interested all things evolution and anthropology.

Charikleia received her PhD from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, studying polymorphic inversions in Drosophila subobscura. She is particularly interested in genome structure evolution and the mechanisms underlying structural variant formation. She aspires to identify and characterize structurally complex regions genome-wide across different primates.

Kendra graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a dual degrees in Anthropology with a concentration in Archaeology and Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution along with a minor in Chinese Studies. She is primarily interested in diet related gene by environment interactions across human populations. Her current work involves describing the copy number variation of digestive enzymes across human populations.

Luane earned a B.Sc. in Biology (2020) and an M.Sc. in Genetics & Molecular Biology (2022) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Now a fourth-year Ph.D. student, she studies the evolution of gene expression using comparative genomics and transcriptomics, focusing on mammalian salivary glands and their links to diet, immunity, and metabolic health.

I am a sophomore bioinformatics student perusing minors in environmental studies and statistics. I am specifically interested in studying the genotype-phenotype relationship and how it relates to evolution.