Halie Rando, PhD

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Biography

Halie received her PhD in Informatics with Dr. Kukekova. Her work focused on the development of genomic tools for analysis of red fox behavior genetics. She also mapped genomic loci associated with variation in red fox behavior and regions of the genome under selection during the red fox’s transition from life in the wild to captive breeding.

Hometown Sharon, MA
Degrees ScB Human Biology, Brown University, 2011
MPhil Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge (Selwyn College), 2013
MSc Bioinformatics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015
PhD Informatics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019 (to be conferred)