Rohan Alibutud
Hello, I’m Rohan!
I graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Science in both Evolutionary Anthropology and Genetics, two fields with very different methods that are nonetheless interested in very similar questions.
I am currently a second-year Bioinformatics PhD student at the Institute for Genomic Evolutionary Medicine at Temple University, in the lab of Dr. Sudhir Kumar.
About Me
Bones-wise, I am a graduate of the Turkana Basin Institute Origins Field School affiliated with Stony Brook University and the National Museums of Kenya. I spent a semester at active field sites at both the Mpala Research Center and the Turkana Basin Institute, studying ecology, geology, fossil paleontology/anthropology, and archaeology.
Genes-wise, I completed an honors thesis on copy number variation in autism-associated genes under the advisory of Dr. Jinchuan Xing of the Genetics Department and Dr. Erin Vogel of the Anthropology Department. Material from this thesis would later be published as a paper for which I was a co-first author that was published in IJMS, as well as a paper in eLife