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  [### Marta Amani

 ](/people/marta-amani) [marta\_amani@college.harvard.edu](mailto:marta_amani@college.harvard.edu)Undergraduate

 

 

 I am interested in understanding how archaic introgressed variants inherited by modern humans affect gene expression, shape phenotypic traits, and contribute to disease risk. 

 

 

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   [### Seiji Aoki

 ](/people/seiji-aoki) <seijiaoki@college.harvard.edu>Undergraduate

 

 

 Seiji studies Medical Anthropology and Integrative Biology. He is currently investigating the developmental physiology and genetics of the musculoskeletal system. 

 

 

      ![Seiji headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum10531/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-11/Aoki%2C%20Seiji%20-%20Headshot.jpg?itok=hQRbojEX) 

 

 

 

   [### 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) 

 

 

 

   [### Julia Boughner, Ph.D.

 ](/people/julia-boughner-phd)Collaborator

Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan

 

 

 

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   [### 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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   [### Jiaxue Cao

 ](/people/jiaxue-cao) <jiaxuecao@g.harvard.edu>Visting Graduate Student

 

 

 I am interested in investigating the function(s) of GDF5 cis-regulation in the context of mouse joint and long bone development during late gestational and postnatal life. I want to know how regulatory elements specifically control GDF5 expression in... 

 

 

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   [### Terence D. Capellini

 ](/people/terence-d-capellini-phd) <tcapellini@fas.harvard.edu>Principal Investigator

Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology

Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

 

 

 

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   [### Anika Christensen

 ](/people/anika-christensen) <anikachristensen@college.harvard.edu>Undergraduate

 

 

 Anika has assisted on projects investigating the evolutionary and developmental genetics of the musculoskeletal system. Her bachelor's thesis investigates the effect of climate change on modern day plague outbreaks through an evolutionary genetics lens. 

 

 

      ![Anika Christensen headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum10531/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-11/Screenshot%202025-11-19%20at%2011.01.31%E2%80%AFAM.png?itok=VUhT-34m) 

 

 

 

   [### Clarissa Coveney

 ](/people/clarissa-coveney) [clarissa\_coveney@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:clarissa_coveney@fas.harvard.edu)Post-doctoral Fellow

 

 

 I am interested in knee osteoarthritis, skeletal biology, and the effects of obseity and diet on the development and health of the human body 

 

 

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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) 

 

 

 

  

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