Welcoming Kiran and Zan, and setting goals for 2026-2027 as fall begins.
Sohini is recognized at the American Museum of Natural History as one of the 2024 US National Honorees for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
(L to R): Marcus Feldman, Sohini, and Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong after Sohini and Nasa led the Heritability Hangup workshops to kick of ASHG 2025; Marc was the keynote speaker.
Catching up with lab alumni (L to R) Dr. Cole Williams and Dr. Priya Nakka at ASHG 2025 in Boston.
Sohini and former Brown colleague Brandon Ogbunu (now at Yale) published an op-ed in the Boston Globe on James Watson's legacy after his death.
We beat Escape Room RI's Bunker to kick off Fall 2026 at our on-campus retreat!
Dr. Cole Williams comes back to campus to be hooded!
Sam (left) and Wei (middle) receiving their PhDs at Brown University's 2022 Commencement Exercises; Sahar (right) attended to support them.
Sohini gives an invited talk at SMBE 2023 on learning genetic trait architecture, in the beautiful City Theatre in Ferrara, Italy.
Research in the Ramachandran lab addresses problems in population genetics and evolutionary theory, generally using humans as a study system. Our work uses mathematical modeling, applied statistical methods, and computer simulations to make inferences from genetic data. We ask a range of questions, such as: what features of human demographic history can we infer from genetic data alone? how can we detect genomic targets of selection? how is human genetic variation apportioned across chromosomes, and what does this teach us about past evolutionary processes shaping genetic variation? how does population genetics research highlight our shared humanity?
Our research and a subset of lab members are currently funded by multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health.