Alicia R. Martin MS, PhD

Alicia is a research fellow in ATGU and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, advised by Dr. Mark Daly. Her general interests are in human population genetics, especially in leveraging demographic history to aid in disease studies. Her current projects utilize pairwise identity-by-descent (IBD) sharing to assess recent population history, associate haplotypes with psychiatric disorders, and infer the ages of disease risk haplotypes and alleles to better understand their evolutionary pressures. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2015 from the Genetics Department at Stanford University (advised by Dr. Carlos D. Bustamante) for her work in genetic and regulatory variation across diverse human populations.