Hi, my name is Zoeb. I am a PhD student in genomics. Broadly speaking, I try to discover genes that make us uniquely human.

In my free time, I like to ride my bike, take long walks, and drink coffee.

Highlighted work
Human-specific gene expansions contribute to brain evolution
Soto et al.
Cell (2025)

Structural variant discovery and characterization from de novo assembly of Khoe-Sān genomes
Jamal et al.
Poster at CSHL BoG (2025)
Recent posts
Making a website
2025-07-25
Things I learned while making this website

Filtering vcf files
2025-07-27
Using vcftools, bcftools, and cyvcf2 to manipulate vcf files