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Graduate Students
Alejandro is originally from Cali, Colombia, and graduated in 2021 from Universidad Icesi with a BSc in biology. Having a tropical botany and plant ecology/genetics background, he’s broadly interested in understanding how evolutionary processes affect genetic traits, and the genetics involved in adapting to new environments. He is also interested in genetic engineering, its applications to conservation of biodiversity and the potential impacts on species persistence. Alejandro is very passionate about cooking, baking, and is fascinated by rare plants.
Kasturi is a fifth year PhD student in the biology program at Tufts University. She completed a BS-MS dual degree from IISER, Pune in July 2021. Her research so far has been about experimental evolution of microbes under various kinds of fluctuating environments. At Tufts, she studies how microbial communities assemble and evolve using both modelling and experimental approaches. Her current hobbies are doing nail art and learning new languages.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Dan Wuitchik earned his PhD from BU, where he studied the evolution and genomics of marine invertebrates with Prof. Sarah Davies. He is developing simulation and inference methods to study rapid adaptation in response to environmental change using Atlantic slipper snails as a model system.
Undergraduate Students
Stephen is a senior undergraduate student at Tufts University, studuying computer science. He has worked on a wide variety of projects in the lab, including adaptation rate inference in cancer genomes and experimental thermal performance in snails.
Principal investigator
Lawrence graduated from UCSF with a PhD in bioinformatics in 2014, where he was supervised by Ryan Hernandez. He followed this up with a highly stimulating but nearly interminable postdoc at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He is interested in the ecological and evolutionary processes that drive adaptation. Why are some species (apparently) fast-adapting and why are some slow-adapting? How will adaptation affect loss of biodiversity and community composition in our rapidly changing world? Lawrence's favorite hobbies include kayaking, biking, and hiking, usually with his family.
Lab alumni
Adam joined the Uricchio Lab after finishing a PhD in Ecology at UC Davis with Richard Karban and Marcel Holyoak.
He worked on statistical methods related to population dynamics and signals of local adaptation in butterflies. He is now in a
permanent position as an aquatic biologist in Maine.
SJ graduated with an MS from the Tufts Biology program. They received their Bachelors in Mathematical Biology from The College of William and Mary and a prior Masters in Bioinformatics from Georgetown University. SJ’s MS research revolved around the intersection of evolutionary genetics and epidemiology. SJ is now a bioinformatics engineer at Natera.
Alison is a graduate of Tufts University. Her research with the Uricchio lab focused on computational models of adaptation of pigeon populations in response to climate change. Her hobbies include the New York Times Crossword puzzles, cross-stitching, and competitive cheerleading.
Daphne is a graduate of Tufts University. Her research focused on computational models of genomic offset/vulnerability. She is now a PhD student in microbiology at Cornell University.
Jackson is a graduate of Tufts, where he majored in Biology. His research focused on demographic inference using selected sites. He is now an incoming PhD student at UCSF.
Alex is a graduate of Tufts University, where he majored in math. He focused on simulations of adaptation in changing environments and fluctuating population sizes. He works at MIT Lincoln Labs as a data analyst and modeler.
Joining the Lab
Tufts undergraduates are welcome to contact us about potential research opportunities, which include paid positions or research for course credit. Please fill out this webform to help us get to know a little about you and we will get back to you.
Prospective grad students are admitted through the Biology Department PhD program at Tufts. Our lab is not currently recruiting new PhD students, but we do collaborate with other labs. Feel free to send Lawrence an email to inquire about the program.
We invite postdocs who are interested in computational genomics teaching and research in evolutionary genetics/ecology
to contact us about potential opportunities.