People

Marta Amani

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.

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.

Christian Athanasian

cathanasian@college.harvard.edu

Undergraduate Student

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

Lyena Birkenstock

lbirkenstock@college.harvard.edu

Undergraduate Student

Interested in the developmental biology of the pelvis in primates

Julia Boughner, Ph.D.

Collaborator

Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan

Mary Broker

mary_broker@college.harvard.edu

Undergraduate Student

I am studying transcriptional regulatory complexes during hip development.

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...

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...

Terence D. Capellini

tcapellini@fas.harvard.edu

Principal Investigator

Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology

Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

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.