Research in the Ramachandran lab addresses problems in population genetics and evolutionary theory, generally using humans as a study system. Our work uses mathematical modeling, applied statistical methods, and computer simulations to make inferences from genetic data. We answer questions like: what demographic processes characterize the human diaspora out of Africa?  did people migrate more rapidly across Eurasia or the Americas? does genetic variation account for different outcomes in cancer treatment? do cultural traits "mutate" more quickly than genes?


Site last updated: 11/8/2012

 

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Sohini Ramachandran

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Office location:  CIT 247A

Lab location:  BioMed Center 505


Mailing address:

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

80 Waterman Street

Box G-W

Brown University

Providence RI 02912

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Summer 2012: The lab and PI receive press in The Scientist (“Scientist to Watch”) and Nature (“Turning Point”).


6/23-6/26/2012: Professor Ramachandran presents work on coalescence in pedigrees at the annual SMBE meeting.


6/14/2012: Professor Ramachandran is named a 2012 Pew Scholar, which provides a $240,000 grant to support the lab’s research.


6/2012: Undergraduates Sky Adams and Michael Goldberg join the lab for the summer. Research Assistant Akshay Walia also arrives.  Welcome all!


5/27/2012: Alyna Khan, undergraduate member of the lab, graduates from Brown. Alyna’s undergraduate thesis in Biology is entitled “Analysis of linguistic variation as a means of understanding human migration”. Congratulations Alyna!