John Novembre

Computational biologist

Colorado College
University of California, Berkeley

Websitehttp://jnpopgen.org

Academic careerFieldsPopulation genetics

Institutions

University of Chicago
University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA Division of Life Sciences (2008–2013)

ThesisStatistical methods for neutral and adaptive genetic variation in continuous isolation-by-distance modelsDoctoral advisorMontgomery SlatkinAcademic advisorMatthew Stephens

John Peter Novembre (born 1977 or 1978) is a computational biologist at the University of Chicago. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015. Novembre has developed data visualization and analysis techniques to investigate correlations between genomic diversity, geography, and demographic structure.^[1]

Education

Novembre completed his undergraduate education in biochemistry at Colorado College in 2000.^[2] He then received a PhD in population genetics in 2006 at UC Berkeley; he was supervised by Montgomery Slatkin.^[3] He then went on to do postdoctoral research with Matthew Stephens in Chicago.^[3] In 2008, Novembre joined the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[4]

References

^ "John Novembre — MacArthur Foundation". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
^ "Novembre Lab - Home". jnpopgen.org. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
^ ^a ^b "Novembre Lab - Team". jnpopgen.org. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
^ https://www.eeb.ucla.edu/Faculty/Novembre/JN_CV_web.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}