Postdoctoral Scholar
Soojin Yi (UCSB) & Kirk Lohmueller (UCLA) labs

Hi, I'm Dani

Engineer turned computational biologist. I study what makes the human brain unique by comparing it to other primates, and write about the tools that make that work possible.

Human evolution Neurogenetics Population genetics Structural variants Bioinformatics

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Human-specific gene expansions and brain evolution Our newest article is out! I am excited to share that our newest paper titled “Human-specific gene expansions contribute to brain evolution” has been published in Cell. July 22, 2025 news →

From the blogAll posts →

Sep 30, 2024 Step-by-step tutorial to construct haplotype networks with PopArtBioinformatics diaries No. 2 → Sep 18, 2023 How to set up your local BLAST nucleotide databaseBioinformatics diaries No. 1 → Mar 31, 2020 My essential toolbox for bioinformatics - an updateConda and Snakemake → Jul 6, 2018 My essential toolbox for bioinformaticsMy personal favorites →