The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Carlos D. Bustamante Interviewed by Orli Bahcall

Carlos D. Bustamante is a statistical population geneticist interested in human and primate evolution, impacts of... » More

Carlos D. Bustamante is a statistical population geneticist interested in human and primate evolution, impacts of domestication on genetic architecture, and medical applications of genomics technology. He received his Ph.D. (2001), M.S. (2001), and B.A. (1997) degrees from Harvard University where he was a Ph.D. student with Daniel L. Hartl. He was also post-doctoral fellow with Peter Donnelly at Oxford under the aegis of a Marshall-Sherfield Fellowship. Since 2002, he has been on the faculty at Cornell University where he teaches statistics, statistical genetics, and bioinformatics. His group has most recently worked on comparing the human, macaque, and chimpanzee genomes, quantifying the strength of selection against new mutations in the human genome, and identifying rapidly evolving genes in different human populations. His current research focuses on identifying genes contributing to phenotypic differences among domestic dog breeds, developing genomic resources for using the macaque as a non-human primate model for mapping genes involved human diseases, and on a large collaborative project to map genes of agronomic importance in Domesticated Asian rice (Oryza sativa).



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