Susanne Tilk

Susanne is a Computational Biologist at 23andMe on the Therapeutics team.  She was a graduate student in the Petrov and Curtis Labs (2017-2022) where she worked on the role of purifying selection and deleterious passenger mutations on the evolution of cancer (see here and here). She also was a research assistant in the Petrov Lab (2014 - 2017) and worked on a number of projects primarily related to our efforts to understand patterns of seasonal adaptation in Drosophila in particular spearheading the development of Haf-pipe - the computation pipeline that allows us to get very accurate allele frequencies from very shallow poolseq. Susanne received her B.S. in Cell and Developmental Biology from UCSB, where she worked with Tom Turner studying the genetics basis of different behavioral preferences within Drosophila.