Ryan Mills, Ph.D.

Dr. Mill’s primary research interest is in the discovery and analysis of structural genomic variation (so-called SVs) within and between species, and its effect on human health and disease. A portion of his future research will continue to be on the improvement of algorithms and pipelines for discovering high quality structural variation from whole genome sequence data. This will be done, in part, through his continued participation in the 1000 Genomes Project, which will expand to 2500 Genomes and 15 populations. This work will be pursued collaboratively with the consortium and will form the basis to launch his individual laboratory research program and to form local collaborative research efforts. He also plans to help develop the role of whole genome sequencing in medical diagnostics (development of sequence databases, algorithm application, and clinical reporting).