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

Graduate student

Ilyas is an incoming graduate student in Ecology & Evolution. He was an undergraduate at UChicago, majoring in physics and biology. Ilyas is interested in theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding genome organization.