Justin's work aims to understand phenotypic variation in natural populations. Students in the lab approach this question from a diverse set of research backgrounds.

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Juyoung is a fantastic asset to the lab. She ensures that everything in the lab is running smoothly, and provides support on individual projects.

I am looking for subtle phenotypes using reciprocal hemizygosity to test putative deleterious SNPs in yeast strains, for a set of genes that are known to have size and/or color phenotypes. I also enjoy helping other members of the lab.

My dissertation research is focused on using yeast as a model system to determine whether screens for non-neutral sequence evolution in noncoding regions identifies phenotypic divergence between yeast species.

I'm interested in the genetic contribution to reproductive isolation between different species of Saccharomyces.

I am interested in the functional characterization of personal genome sequences with a comparative genomics approach.

I am interested in the evolution of duplicate genes and the relative contribution of changes in cis-regulatory and protein-coding regions to their functional divergence.

I am interested in implementing experimental approaches to understanding epistatic interactions among residues and their impact on fitness.

Katie investigated the domestication of S. cerevisiae for wine fermentation using genotypic and phenotypic analysis of natural S. cerevisiae populations. She earned her PhD in December of 2010, and is currently a postdoc in Ana Caicedo's lab at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Sandeep used comparative genomics and wet lab methods to identify and evaluate the relationship between sequence and functional conservation of noncoding DNA regions across an evolutionarily diverse set of yeast species. Sandeep earned his BS in Computer Science in 2010, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Biology at Stanford University.

Scott earned his PhD in Computational Biology in 2008.

Hyun earned his PhD in Computational Biology in 2008.