I am a statistical and quantitative geneticist and a post-doctoral research associate in the Comparative Orthopaedic & Genetics Research Laboratory at University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Veterinary Medicine, working under the direction of Dr. Peter Muir and Dr. Susannah Sample. I am profoundly interested in the field of statistical genetics and genomics. My research interests span a broad range of topics including quantitative genetics and animal breeding. Broadly defined, my research aims to integrate cutting edge genomic and phenomic approaches to understand how animals respond to genomic improvement. My research goal is to provide means to improve these responses through development of statistical models for dissection of complex disease. I am currently applying these approaches to spontaneous diseases in companion animal models, specifically the dog and the horse.

Research Interet

My current research topics are:

• Genomic dissection of spontaneous disease in compansion animals using Whole-Genome sequence data
• Developing statistical models for GWAS and genome prediction in companion animal
• De novo genome assembly