Alexander Starr
Post-doctoral Fellow
Alex is a geneticist whose research aims to understand how natural selection gave rise to iconic adaptations in humans as well as other mammals. During his PhD, Alex developed new computational methods that leverage data from human-chimpanzee cell fusions to better understand human evolution. His primary goal was to understand the genetic basis of both uniquely human cognition and uniquely human susceptibility to medical conditions including autism spectrum disorder and coronary artery disease.
As a FutureHouse Fellow, Alex will use AI scientists to massively expand the scope and scale of these evolutionary genomics analyses, with the goal of uncovering the genetic basis of behavioral adaptations and neurological disease across the mammalian tree of life.
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