Steering committee member
Dr. Ainash Childebayeva is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Austin. She is is a biological anthropologist whose research focuses on human genetic variation, both modern and ancient. Using epigenetic and genetic methods, Dr. Childebayeva researches the ways in which humans respond to environmental change over different evolutionary timescales in an effort to better understand how humans adapt to the changing environment around us. She received her PhD in Biological Anthropology and Toxicology from the University of Michigan in 2019. Dr. Childebayeva is a National Geographic Explorer, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Genetics and Physiology in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Currently, she is working on topics related to the population history of Europe and Central Asia using ancient DNA methods.
Research Interests
Human evolutionary genetics, human epigenetics, gene x environment interactions, ancient DNA in Central Asia and Western Eurasia
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