John Novembre

John Novembre
Alma mater	Colorado College University of California, Berkeley
Website	jnpopgen.org
Academic career
Fields	Population genetics
Institutions	University of Chicago University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Division of Life Sciences (2008–2013)
Thesis	Statistical methods for neutral and adaptive genetic variation in continuous isolation-by-distance models
Doctoral advisor	Montgomery Slatkin
Academic advisor	Matthew Stephens

John Peter Novembre (born 1977or1978) is a computational biologist at the University of Chicago. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015. Novembre has developed data visualization and analysis techniques to investigate correlations between genomic diversity, geography, and demographic structure. ^[1]

Education

Novembre completed his undergraduate education in biochemistry at Colorado College in 2000. ^[2] He then received a PhD in population genetics in 2006 at UC Berkeley; he was supervised by Montgomery Slatkin. ^[3] He then went on to do postdoctoral research with Matthew Stephens in Chicago. ^[3] In 2008, Novembre joined the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles. ^[4]

References

1. "John Novembre — MacArthur Foundation". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
2. "Novembre Lab - Home". jnpopgen.org. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
3. "Novembre Lab - Team". jnpopgen.org. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
4. "John Novembre" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-24.