People

Amy Goldberg, PI

Amy is an Assistant Professor at Duke University. Before joining Duke in January 2019, she was a Miller Fellow at Berkeley working with Rasmus Nielsen. She completed her PhD with Noah Rosenberg at Stanford in 2017, and did her Bachelor's in Mathematics and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Michigan (2012). Amy is faculty in the Departments of Evolutionary Anthropology, Biology, and Mathematics, and associated with the Center for Genomic and Computational Biology.

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Bide (Peter) Chen, PhD student

Bide is a graduate student in the University Program in Genetics and Genomics. He graduated from Zhejiang University. Bide joined the lab in May 2022, and is currently working in human population genetics and admixture.

Cymfenee Dean-Phifer, PhD student

Cymfenee is a graduate student in the Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. She earned her BS in Computational and Systems Biology, with a concentration in Bioinformatics from UCLA in Spring 2021. Cymfenee is interested in how ancestry and genetics affect disease pathogenesis, especially for malaria. She joined the lab in September 2022.

Katherine McVay, PhD student

Katherine is a graduate student in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology. She earned her BS in Genetics and BA in Anthropology from North Carolina State University. She is interested in the impact of cultural change and interaction on parasite genetic adaptation. Katherine joined the lab in August 2021.

Adeola Oluwakemi Ayoola, Postdoctoral fellow

Adeola obtained her Ph.D. Genetics from Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Adeola is interested in primate and human ecology of infectious disease, especially malaria, as well as how it has influenced primate adaptation. She joined the lab in September 2022.

Shyamalika Gopalan, Postdoctoral fellow

Shyamalika joined the lab as a postdoctoral researcher in November 2020. She received her PhD from Stony Brook University. Shyamalika has broad interests in evolutionary biology and anthropological genetics, and is studying how the spread of agriculture throughout the world has shaped the genetics and demography of human populations as well as malaria parasite population genetics.

Dashiell Massey, Postdoctoral fellow

Dashiell completed his Ph.D. in Genetics and Development with Amnon Koren at Cornell University and received a B.A. in Biology from Swarthmore College. Dashiell is interested in understanding how complex and long-term demographic trends shape observed genetic diversity at discrete (and often, sparsely-sampled) time points. He joined the lab in September 2022.