Jonathan Mah
I am a computational evolutionary biologist interested in investigating fundamental basic questions regarding mathematical evolution, especially in microbial systems. I'm currently a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Washington working with Dr. Jesse Bloom on experimentally informed models for protein evolution in viruses.
Additionally, from June 2019 to August 2019, I worked with Professor Kirk Lohmueller on inferring the distribution of fitness effects in canine evolutionary histories as part of the Bruins-In-Genomics Summer Undergraduate Research Program at UCLA.
In Fall 2020, I will be starting my PhD studies through the Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Program at UCLA .
Research
Here are some of the projects I've worked on over the past several years.
Identifying Sites Under Diversifying Selection on Viral Proteins [Manuscript Expected by June 2020]
Jonathan Mah, Sarah Hilton, Jesse Bloom
Impact of Domestication on the Distribution of Fitness Effects in Canine Lineages [Manuscript Expected by September 2020]
Eduardo Amorim*, Jesse Garcia*, Miguel Guardado*, Jonathan Mah*, Kirk Lohmueller
* Denotes equal contribution.
Brief CV
- Current: BS Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology, 2016-present
I have been fortunate to receive funding support from:
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