Principal Investigator
Susanne P. Pfeifer. Susanne earned her D.Phil. in Statistics at the University of Oxford (UK) in 2013 advised by Gil McVean, working on the statistical challenges involved in the estimation of variation in mutation and recombination rates from high throughput sequencing data, with direct applications to primate population genetics in a collaboration with Molly Przeworski’s Lab at the University of Chicago and Peter Donnelly’s Lab at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford. She went on to do her postdoc work as a Vienna International Postdoctoral Program (VIPS) fellow at the Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna (Austria). As a research associate at EPFL (Switzerland), she focused on the evolution of cryptic coloration in wild populations of mice (in collaboration with the Hoekstra Lab, Harvard) and lizards (in collaboration with the Rosenblum Lab, Berkeley). Susanne founded the Pfeifer Lab as an Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at ASU in 2017. In 2023, she was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Email Google Scholar PubMed
Postdoctoral Researcher
Postdoctoral Researcher
Erangi Heenkenda. Erangi earned her M.Sc. at the University of Florida (on a Fulbright Award) and her PhD at Purdue, studying the population / conservation genomics of aquatic species (advised by J. Andrew DeWoody), followed by postdoctoral research at the USDA’s National Veterinary Science Laboratory as an ORISE fellow (advised by Rachel Palinski). In the Pfeifer Lab, Erangi is focused on primate population genomic analyses. Google Scholar.
Gabriella J. Spatola. Gabby earned her Ph.D. as an Intramural Research Fellow at the University of South Carolina and the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute advised by Elaine Ostrander, working on the genetic architecture of free-breeding dog populations in Chernobyl and the Galápagos islands. In the Pfeifer Lab, Gabby is focused on primate population genomic analyses. Google Scholar.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. Student
Cyril J.F. Versoza. Cyril earned his B.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the University of the Philippines (Philippines), where he was a College and University Scholar in the Lazaro Lab, working on the identification of novel molecular drug targets of antibiotics. In the Pfeifer Lab, Cyril is investigating the genetic determinants that affect broad- and fine-scale mutation and recombination rates in primates and other vertebrates. Google Scholar.
Devangana Shah. Devangana is an undergraduate researcher (and incoming Ph.D. student) gaining research experience, with a focus on primate population genomics.
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Lab Dogs
Aldo & Finn.