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PI: Dan Schrider

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics at UNC-Chapel Hill. Prior to joining UNC in 2018, I did my postdoctoral studies with Andrew Kern at Rutgers University, where we worked on detecting the footprints of natural selection in the genome. Prior to that I did my PhD with Dr. Matthew Hahn at Indiana University, studying genomic copy number variation. As an undergraduate, I studied computer science, also at Indiana University.

Email: drs [at] unc [dot] edu

Office: Genetic Medicine Building, Room 5047

Here is my Google Scholar page.

From left to right: me, Yojimbo, and Louie

Postdocs

Remi Ketchum

Remi is applying machine learning techniques and long-read sequencing to study rapid adaptation in Aedes mosquitos. Remi joined the lab in Feb. 2024 after completing a NSF PRFB-funded postdoc at the University of Florida in Joseph Ryan’s lab investigating speciation in the holopelagic ctenophore, Mnemiopsis. She completed her PhD at the University of North Carolina Charlotte in Adam Reitzel’s lab where she studied adaptation to extreme temperatures in the rock-burrowing sea urchin, Echinometra.

Email: rketchum [at] email [dot] unc [dot] edu

Tyler Kent

Tyler is working on the impacts of demography and genome structure on genetic diversity in Aedes, and the role of genome structure in shaping patterns of introgression across species. Tyler has been working with the Schrider and Matute labs since November 2022, and is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago. He completed his PhD at the University of Toronto with Stephen Wright, and worked as an undergraduate at UC Davis with Jeff Ross-Ibarra.

Email: tvkent [at] uchicago [dot] edu

Remi, who did not want me to use this photo but I couldn't resist.

A Tyler sighting in his natural habitat.

Students

Amjad Dabi

Amjad is a BBSP grad student who joined the lab in 2021. He is working on efficient population genetic simulation, and developing population genetic models of cancer.

Austin Daigle

Austin is a BBSP grad student who joined the lab in 2023 and is co-advised by Parul Johri. His research focuses on the population genetics of transposable elements. Prior to joining UNC, he earned his bachelor’s degree in Genetics from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, where he worked in Vaishali Katju’s laboratory studying the mutation rate and selfish genetic elements of C. elegans.

Gabriela Valente-Almeida

Gabriela is a BBSP grad student who joined the lab in 2024. She is studying structural variants within diverse populations of Aedes aegypti, aiming to understand their contributions to recent adaptations such as the evolution of insecticide resistance. Before coming to UNC, Gabriela completed her undergraduate and master's degrees in Genetics at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where she worked on gene duplications, focusing on their origin and maintenance in different species.

Amjad before he grew his hair out. He doesn't look like this at all, really.

Here is Austin trying to apply for a passport or something.

Gabriela is in a good mood, as usual.

Other Members

Dylan Ray

Dylan joined the lab as a programmer in the summer of 2019. He is a man of mystery.

Louie Schrider (Dog)

When the Schrider Lab was just starting out we decided to make the website look less pathetic by filling it out with a picture of my dog. It is still here, like a vestigial organ. We could count him as a real member anyway—while he doesn't really do anything that directly helps our research, he does boost morale. But we are occasionally looking for real human members, so please contact me if interested!

A dog

Past Members

Postdocs:

Ariella Gladstein (Sept 2018 – Dec 2020); now a scientist in the Ancestry division at Embark

Becca Love (Dec 2020 – June 2023); now a researcher at the Center for Disease Control

Anton Suvorov (May 2018 – July 2023); now an Assistant Professor of Biology at Virginia Tech

Will Booker (Jan 2021 – June 2024); now a computational biology at Avalo

Graduate students:

Logan Whitehouse, PhD student, (May 2020 – April 2024); now CTO and co-founder at Virnika

Josh Sikder, Master's student (May 2021 – April 2024)

Undergraduates:

Nick Matthew (Spring 2020 – Spring 2021); now working in investing at Figment Capital

Zeaan Pithawala (Spring 2022 – Summer 2023); now pursuing an MS in Public Health at Yale University

Rotation students:

Ronald Kyong-Shin (Fall 2023)

Alec Lobanov (Fall 2022)

Pradham Tanikella (Fall 2021)

Sarah Parker (Fall 2019)

Josh Hochuli (Fall 2018)

Brandon Le (Fall 2018)