Michael Wasney

I am a computational biologist studying how the bacteria in our guts evolve. Currently, I am pursuing my PhD in the Garud Lab at UCLA.

Contact

E-mail: michaelwasney@ucla.edu
Office: Life Sciences Building 4114

UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Github: michaelwasney
Bluesky: @michaelwasney.bsky.social

Research

Uniform bacterial genetic diversity along the gut [Nature Communications, in press]

Michael Wasney*, Leah Briscoe*, Richard Wolff, Hans Ghezzi, Carolina Tropini, Nandita Garud

Single-cell genomics improves the discovery of risk variants and genes of atrial fibrillation [Nature Communications, 2023]

Alan Selewa, Kaixuan Luo, Michael Wasney, Linsin Smith, Xiaotong Sun, Chenwei Tang, Heather Eckart, Ivan P. Moskowitz, Anindita Basu, Xin He & Sebastian Pott

* Denotes equal contribution.

Brief CV

Current: PhD Genetics & Genomics, UCLA, 2021-present

I have been fortunate to receive funding support from:

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