Arun Durvasula, PhD

Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Quantitative and Computational Biology

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Awards

National Institute of Health: Outstanding Investigator Award, 2025
– 2030
ASHG Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research Semi-finalist, 2023
Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award, 2021
National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship, 2018
– 2021

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA — Postdoc — 08/2023 — Population and Statistical Genetics
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA — Ph.D. — 08/2021 — Human Genetics
UC Davis, Davis, CA — B.S. — 06/2015 — Biotechnology

Leveraging diverse ancestry and environmental variables to understand the evolution and architecture of complex traits
NIH · R35GM160467 · Aug 15, 2025 – Jul 31, 2030 · Role: Principal Investigator

MaLAdapt Reveals Novel Targets of Adaptive Introgression From Neanderthals and Denisovans in Worldwide Human Populations. Mol Biol Evol. 2023 01 04; 40(1).. View in PubMed
Advancing admixture graph estimation via maximum likelihood network orientation. Bioinformatics. 2021 07 12; 37(Suppl_1):i142-i150.. View in PubMed
Negative selection on complex traits limits phenotype prediction accuracy between populations. Am J Hum Genet. 2021 04 01; 108(4):620-631.. View in PubMed
Ancient balancing selection maintains incompatible versions of the galactose pathway in yeast. Science. 2021 01 22; 371(6527):415-419.. View in PubMed
A community-maintained standard library of population genetic models. Elife. 2020 06 23; 9.. View in PubMed
Recovering signals of ghost archaic introgression in African populations. Sci Adv. 2020 02; 6(7):eaax5097.. View in PubMed
A statistical model for reference-free inference of archaic local ancestry. PLoS Genet. 2019 05; 15(5):e1008175.. View in PubMed
Gene expression drives the evolution of dominance. Nat Commun. 2018 07 16; 9(1):2750.. View in PubMed
Natural Selection and Origin of a Melanistic Allele in North American Gray Wolves. Mol Biol Evol. 2018 05 01; 35(5):1190-1209.. View in PubMed
Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes. Science. 2018 May 11; 360(6389):656-660.. View in PubMed