Nandita Garud
Associate Professor
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolNandita Garud is an Associate Professor at UCLA with 11 years of experience bridging evolutionary biology, human genetics, and quantitative analysis to study natural population evolution in systems like the human gut microbiome and Drosophila. Trained with a Ph.D. in Genetics and an M.S. in Statistics from Stanford and a BS in Computational Biology from Cornell, she combines deep theoretical population-genetics expertise with data-driven approaches. Her trajectory includes postdoctoral work at UCSF, a data science internship in industry, and a Fulbright scholarship, reflecting fluency in both academic and applied settings. Known for probing evolution at multiple scales, she runs a lab that integrates computational methods and experimental genetics to reveal rapid adaptive dynamics often missed by conventional analyses.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computational Biology Biometry and Statistics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computational Biology Biometry and Statistics at Cornell UniversityStuyvesant High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Genetics at Stanford University
Github Skills (19)
bioconductor9
microbiome9
metagenomics8
bioinformatics8
taxonomy8
phyloseq6
mer6
genomics5
sequencing5
counter4
pipeline4
assembler3
threaded3
molecule3
inference3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benjaminhgood/microbiome_evolution
Jan 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:237 commits in 1 year 7 months
ngarud/SelectionHapStats
Nov 2014 - Aug 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 5 pushes, 3 comments in 3 years 10 months
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