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Global Signatures of Selection in Humans
(2018-05-13)
This thesis studies the properties and prevalence of natural selection operating on our species on a global or genome-wide scale. It is still not known how negative selection against deleterious mutations operates genome-wide, ...
Probabilistic Models of Structure in Biological Sequences
(2018-09-25)
The machinery of life is encoded in biological polymers for which sequence, structure, and function are intimately connected. This dissertation presents new probabilistic models for uncovering these connections from ...
Genomic Analysis of Viral Outbreaks
(2018-05-11)
Due to recent advances in sequencing technologies, genomics has emerged as a powerful tool for combating viral outbreaks. In this dissertation, I show how genomic data can be used to understand the transmission, as well ...
Evolutionary dynamics of CRISPR gene drives
(2018-09-16)
The alteration of wild populations has been discussed as a solution to a number of humanity’s most pressing ecological and public health problems. Enabled by the recent revolution in genome editing, CRISPR gene drive ...
Programming molecular behavior: development and applications of autonomous DNA synthesis cascades
(2018-09-25)
DNA serves many functional roles in living organisms, and dynamic DNA nanotechnology seeks to expand this set of DNA-based behaviors through the rational design of new functions. In the past 20 years, the predictable and ...