Carl Veller

• Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago, 2023-present
• Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, 2020-2023
• Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 2019-2020
• PhD, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 2019
• PhD candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University, 2012-2014
• Undergraduate studies, Applied Mathematics and Economics, University of Cape Town, 2008-2011

Dr. Carl Veller will use novel methods to identify centromere variants in large population genomic databases that contain clinical health data. Based on this identification, he will use modern population genomic methods to discover the health effects of centromeric variation. Then, using long-read sequence assemblies of human centromeres, Dr. Veller will investigate the structural and molecular basis of centromeres’ effects on human health. In addition, using pedigrees within population genomic databases, he will test whether contravention of Mendel’s first law at centromeres underlies their effects on human fertility.

• James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Award, Genetics Society of America, 2020