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Department/College/UnitPhysical & Biological Sciences Division

TitleAssociate Professor

AffiliationFaculty

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationGenomics Institute

Web SiteCornejo

Primary Office LocationCSC Coastal Biology Building
272

Mail StopCBB/EE Biology

Biography, Education and Training

BS, Biology, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela (2000)
MS, Ecology and Population Biology, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas, Venezuela  (2004)
PhD, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Emory University (2009) 
Postdoc, Genetics, Cornell University (2009-2010)

Postdoc, Genetics, Stanford University (2010-2013)

Summary of Expertise

Understanding how evolutionary processes that have shaped host and microbe genomes can increase our ability to predict organismal health and disease. In our lab we study how natural selection drives the adaptation of microbes to their hosts and how hosts develop disease resistance. We focus on the evolutionary context (historical demographics and especial geological and anthropological events) under which selection drives the gain or loss of genetic variants using study systems in humans, microbiomes, malarial parasites, and plants.

Teaching Interests

Population Genetics, Evolutionary Medicine, Evolutionary genetics