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Center for Computational Molecular Biology

Emilia Huerta-Sánchez

Director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Graduate Program Co-Director for the Center of Computational Molecular Biology, Associate Professor Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Biography

​Emilia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) at Brown University. Emilia is interested in integrating theoretical, computational and statistical modeling to address questions in human evolutionary biology.  Her current research interests involve scanning human genomes from different populations to detect mutations in genes that have helped humans adapt to different environments like different diets, temperatures, pathogens and altitudes.

She completed her PhD in Applied Mathematics with Rick Durrett and Carlos Bustamante at Cornell University. Her postdoc was at the University of California Berkeley in the Departments of Statistics and Integrative Biology where she worked with Rasmus Nielsen. Before moving to Brown University, she was a faculty member at the University of California Merced.

 

Publications

Recent News

Nature Human Behavior

Women shaping behavioural science

In the month of International Women’s Day, Nature Human Behavior asked six scientists about the most influential woman who shaped their field. They highlight well-known names and rising stars. Some of them have studied gender equality, and all have made tremendous efforts towards achieving it.
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