#  Former Lab Members 

 



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  [### Christian Athanasian

 ](/people/christian-athanasian) <cathanasian@college.harvard.edu>Undergraduate Student

 

 

 I am studying the roles of GDF5 in joint development and osteoarthritis. 

 

 

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   [### Lyena Birkenstock

 ](/people/lyena-birkenstock) [lbirkenstock@college.harvard.edu ](<mailto:lbirkenstock@college.harvard.edu >)Undergraduate Student

 

 

 Interested in the developmental biology of the pelvis in primates 

 

 

      ![lyena_birkenstock.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum10531/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/evolutionary_genetics/files/lyena_birkenstock.png?itok=9sZtUYNn) 

 

 

 

   [### Mary Broker 

 ](/people/mary-broker) [mary\_broker@college.harvard.edu](mailto:mary_broker@college.harvard.edu)Undergraduate Student

 

 

 I am studying transcriptional regulatory complexes during hip development. 

 

 

      ![Mary Broker](/sites/g/files/omnuum10531/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/evolutionary_genetics/files/screen_shot_2019-07-09_at_11.55.58_am.png?itok=ZgCGrhKE) 

 

 

 

   [### Elizabeth Brown

 ](/people/elizabeth-brown) <eabrown@fas.harvard.edu>Graduate Student

Co-member of Ruvolo and Sabeti Labs

 

 

 I'm interested in human metabolic diversity across populations, and how selective factors like diet, infectious disease, environment impacted humans in the past several thousand years of evolution. I also want to understand how important life stages, like... 

 

 

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   [### Camille Dash

 ](/people/camille-dash) <camilledash@college.harvard.edu>Undergraduate Student

 

 

 I am interesting in studying the genetics of human shoulder development and evolution 

 

 

      ![Camille](/sites/g/files/omnuum10531/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/evolutionary_genetics/files/camille.png?itok=eANqOPkK) 

 

 

 

   [### Heather Dingwall

 ](/people/heather-dingwall) <hdingwall@fas.harvard.edu>Graduate Student

 

 

 I study the development and evolution of tendons in primates and other mammals 

 

 

      ![adult-white-handed-gibbon-sitting-on-branch-with-infant-on-lap.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10531/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/evolutionary_genetics/files/adult-white-handed-gibbon-sitting-on-branch-with-infant-on-lap.jpg?itok=P3oVQl_q) 

 

 

 

   [### Serena Fernandopulle

 ](/people/serena-fernandopulle) <serenafernandopulle@college.harvard.edu>Undergraduate Student

 

 

 I am interested in understanding how the human pelvis forms in utero 

 

 

      ![serena](/sites/g/files/omnuum10531/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/evolutionary_genetics/files/serena-fernandopulle.jpg?itok=A1RScngq) 

 

 

 

   [### Yemile Bazaldua Flores

 ](/people/yemile-bazaldua-flores) <yemilebazalduaflores@college.harvard.edu>Undergraduate Student

 

 

 Interested in how changes in the regulatory upstream region of the GDF5 gene affect knee joint development 

 

 

      ![Yemile Flores](/sites/g/files/omnuum10531/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/evolutionary_genetics/files/img_8330.jpeg?itok=3w-e7qMs) 

 

 

 

   [### Naomi Freilich

 ](/people/naomi-freilich) <naomifreilich@college.harvard.edu>Undergraduate Student

 

 

 I am interested in studying the genetic mechanisms underlying pelvic development 

 

 

      ![Naomi](/sites/g/files/omnuum10531/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/evolutionary_genetics/files/naomi.jpg?itok=mf-1MO8p) 

 

 

 

   [### Rob Gunzenhauser

 ](/people/rob-gunzenhauser) <rgunzenhauser@college.harvard.edu>Undergraduate Student

 

 

 Hi I'm Rob. I'm a junior at Harvard College concentrating in HEB. When I'm not on my couch in vacant or pensive mood thinking about all things HEB I volunteer on Adams House HoCo and also work in the International Relations Council here at the College. I... 

 

 

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   [### Delaney Ignace

 ](/people/delaney-ignace) <dcignace@college.harvard.edu>Undergraduate Student

 

 

 I am interested in human skeletal evolution and genetics 

 

 

      ![delaney](/sites/g/files/omnuum10531/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/evolutionary_genetics/files/download_01.jpg?itok=u1kO-DBy) 

 

 

 

   [### Evelyn Jagoda

 ](/people/evelyn-jagoda)Graduate Student

 

 

 I am interested in the functional impacts of archaic introgression on modern humans 

 

 

      ![img_0109.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10531/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/evolutionary_genetics/files/img_0109.jpg?itok=mEzxTMIz) 

 

 

 

  

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