About Me
Hi, I'm Dashiell! I'm a computational biologist interested in developing new methods for understanding complex biological processes that vary in space and time. I'm particuarly interested in how we can better account for the fact that we are likely to undersample the true extent of variation.
I am currently an Assistant Project Scientist in the lab of Dr. Amy Goldberg in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles. I was previously a postdoctoral associate in Amy's lab (then at Duke), where I worked on assortative mating and admixture in humans using forward-in-time population genetic simulations. Read about this work in Genetics.
I received my Ph.D. in 2022 in the lab of Dr. Amnon Koren in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University, where I was a student in the Graduate Field of Genetics, Genomics, and Development.
In the Koren lab, I studied human DNA replication timing. My dissertation focused on uncovering heterogeneity in replication timing at the single-cell level, in order to better understand its regulation. This work was published Nature Communications.
In addition to my research interests, I am passionate about teaching, science literacy, and promoting equity in STEM — goals that I see as deeply intertwined with one another (and with my research interests).