Principal Investigator, Kelsey Witt Dillon
Kelsey is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University, and joined the Center for Human Genetics and the Department of Genetics and Biochemistry in 2023. Her research interests include population genomics, demography, ancient DNA, archaic introgression, and domestication. Prior to working at Clemson, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Computational and Molecular Biology at Brown University and the University of California-Merced, advised by Emilia Huerta-Sanchez. She received her PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, supervised by Ripan Malhi. Outside the lab, she enjoys knitting, reading science fiction, playing video games, baking, and spending time with her husband, daughter, and dogs.
Kelsey is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University, and joined the Center for Human Genetics and the Department of Genetics and Biochemistry in 2023. Her research interests include population genomics, demography, ancient DNA, archaic introgression, and domestication. Prior to working at Clemson, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Computational and Molecular Biology at Brown University and the University of California-Merced, advised by Emilia Huerta-Sanchez. She received her PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, supervised by Ripan Malhi. Outside the lab, she enjoys knitting, reading science fiction, playing video games, baking, and spending time with her husband, daughter, and dogs.