People
Current Members of the Akey Lab
Joshua Akey
Professor
jakey@princeton.edu
Josh is the intrepid leader of the wily gang of genome scientists.
Dayna Akey
Research Scientist
dakey@princeton.edu
When she is not chasing after our two boys, Dayna is chasing down several projects in canine genomics. She has a long-standing interest in mapping genes contributing to inherited canine diseases and continuing to pursue similar projects in the Akey lab.
Cara Weisman
Lewis-Sigler Scholar
cweisman@princeton.edu
Cara's PhD work focused on lineage-specific genes: where they come from, what they do, and how they relate to our understanding of novel traits. She's now exploring evolutionary novelty and evolutionary change more broadly, in a variety of systems: what changes, how fast, and how?
Olivia Harringmeyer
Lewis-Sigler Scholar
oharring@princeton.edu
Olivia studies structural genomic variation, focusing on chromosomal inversions and their role in evolution.
Debashree Tagore
Postdoctoral Research Associate
dt8441@princeton.edu
Debashree is interested in comparative analysis of modern human and archaic human genomes.
Yiming Bian
Postdoctoral Research Associate
yimingb@princeton.edu
Yiming is interested in computer vision and deep learning, specifically on object recognition in medical modalities and parallelization of large models.
Aaron Pfennig
Postdoctoral Research Associate
apfennig@princeton.edu
Aaron is interested in studying the population genetics of complex genomic regions and developing spatiotemporal explicit models of human evolution.
Kaiqian Zhang
Graduate Student
kaiqianz@princeton.edu
Kaiqian is interested in developing statistical methods for improving transferability of polygenic risk scores.
Huixin (Winnie) Xu
Graduate Student
huixinx@princeton.edu
Winnie is developing methods to study patterns of somatic mutations in humans.
Susie Song
Graduate Student
susiesong@princeton.edu
Susie is interested in studying human genetic variation in intrinsically disordered regions of proteins.
Rob Bierman
Research Software Engineer
rbierman@princeton.edu
Rob is interested in providing computational support to the Akey lab on multiple genomics projects.
Ruby Redlich
Rotating Graduate Student
rr9932@princeton.edu
Ruby is a rotation student interested in studying archaic deserts in the human genome.
Cooper Koers
Undergraduate Research Student
ck5658@princeton.edu
Cooper is interested in researching variety in human evolution and their modern-day implications regarding disease resistance and suscesptibility.