Projects

Predicting the cross population portability of human eQTLs

Masters research project investigating the evolutionary, functional and expression properties of human eQTLs which are non-portable across populations, supervised by: [Dr. Irene Gallego Romero](https://igr-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/) & [Dr. Christina Azodi](https://azodichr.github.io/) (March 2021 - December 2022)

How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?

Collaboration with Tim Connallon, Yasmine McDonough & Filip Ruzicka (August 2021 - February 2022)

Investigating the evolution of palindromes on the sex chromosomes

A semester long internship developing models to understand the evolutionary dynamics of palindromes on the X chromosome, supervised by: [Dr. Tim Connallon](https://connallonresearch.wordpress.com/) (February 2021 - July 2021)

TABI: Transcriptomic Analyses through Bayesian Inference

Undergraduate research project developing a Bayesian R Package for Differential Gene Expression Analysis over Continuous Covariates, [TABI](https://github.com/stemangiola/TABI) supervised by: [Dr. Stefano Mangiola](https://github.com/stemangiola) & [Prof. Tony Papenfuss](https://papenfusslab.org/bio_papenfuss) (December 2019 - March 2021)

Testing a theory for the evolution of inversions

A short winter vacation project investigating the association between inversions and sexually antagonistic genes, supervised by: [Dr. Filip Ruzicka](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9089-624X) and [Dr. Tim Connallon](https://connallonresearch.wordpress.com/) (June 2019)