Tina Lasisi
Principal Investigator
Principal InvestigatorWhat we study
Human variation: its evolution, genetic architecture, and implications.
We study human variation through the lens of hair morphology and skin pigmentation, combining quantitative phenotyping with population and evolutionary genetics. Comparative evolutionary work in non-human primates extends this to the phylogenetics of pigmentation across lineages. We also investigate hair as a biological record, including how structural variation affects biomarker measurements like cortisol. And our work includes the ethical, legal, and social implications of human variation science, such as forensic genetics.
Hair morphology Skin pigmentation Evolutionary genetics Quantitative phenotyping Forensic genetics
People
The lab
Principal Investigator
Postdoctoral Researcher
Yemko Pryor
Postdoctoral Researcher
PostdocPhD Students
Paloma Contreras
PhD Student
PhD Student
Junhui He
Visiting PhD Student
Visiting PhDUndergraduate Researchers
Lily Heald
Undergraduate Researcher
Undergraduate
Stella Booydegraaff
Undergraduate Researcher
UndergraduateCollaborators
Blair Jenkins
Collaborator
CollaboratorSelected work
Publications
Coming soon
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In the meantime, you can find Dr. Lasisi's complete and up-to-date list of papers on Google Scholar and ORCID.
From the lab
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Contact
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- Institution
- University of Michigan
Department of Anthropology & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Ann Arbor, Michigan - tlasisi [at] umich [dot] edu
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