John Novembre
Computational biologist
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John Peter Novembre (born 1977 or 1978) is a computational biologist at the University of Chicago. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015. Novembre has developed data visualization and analysis techniques to investigate correlations between genomic diversity, geography, and demographic structure.[1]
- University of Chicago
- University of California, Los Angeles
- UCLA Division of Life Sciences (2008–2013)
John Novembre | |
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| Alma mater | |
| Website | jnpopgen |
| Academic career | |
| Fields | Population genetics |
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| Thesis | Statistical methods for neutral and adaptive genetic variation in continuous isolation-by-distance models |
| Doctoral advisor | Montgomery Slatkin |
| Academic advisor | Matthew Stephens |
Education
Novembre completed his undergraduate education in biochemistry at Colorado College in 2000.[2] He then received a PhD in population genetics in 2006 at UC Berkeley; he was supervised by Montgomery Slatkin.[3] He then went on to do postdoctoral research with Matthew Stephens in Chicago.[3] In 2008, Novembre joined the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles.[4]
