Emily R Ebel

Emily is an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Sonnenburg Lab at Stanford. As a PhD student in the Petrov Lab (2014-2020), Emily worked on the evolution of malaria parasites and human red blood cells and discovered widespread and consequential variation in the properties of red blood cells that affects malarial parasites but which is not apparently driven by the adaptation to malaria and discovered a new way that immunogenic variation is generated by the Plasmodium parasites. She did her undergraduate work with Patrick Phillips at the University of Oregon and earned a Masters from Boston University studying butterfly phylogenetics with Sean Mullen.
Emily is interested in how ecological interactions promote genetic variation, especially in microbes associated with humans.