People

Carl Veller

Assistant Professor

cveller@uchicago.edu


Carl did his PhD at Harvard, advised by Martin Nowak, and then did a postdoc with Graham Coop and Chuck Langley at UC Davis. He started as Assistant Professor at UChicago in Fall 2023. Carl's interests are in population and evolutionary genetics, primarily theoretical. His publications can be found here.



Tyler Kent

Postdoctoral scholar

tvkent@uchicago.edu


Tyler is an evolutionary geneticist studying genome evolution and its consequences across species. He did his PhD at the University of Toronto, advised by Stephen Wright, and postdoctoral work with Daniel Matute and Dan Schrider at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His publications can be found here.



Sherif Negm

Graduate student

negm@uchicago.edu


Sherif is a graduate student in the Human Genetics program, and is co-advised by John Novembre. He was an undergraduate at Rochester, where he worked in Amanda Larracuente's lab. In the Veller lab, Sherif is studying the impact of stabilizing selection on the genetic architecture of complex traits. His publications can be found here.


Ilyas Qureshi

Undergraduate researcher


Ilyas is an undergraduate at UChicago, majoring in physics and biology. With Carl and Pavitra Muralidhar, Ilyas is studying drift-induced selection in various evolutionary genetic systems.Â