{"id":14173,"date":"2024-09-17T15:28:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T19:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/?p=14173"},"modified":"2024-09-17T15:28:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T19:28:56","slug":"dr-parul-johri-awarded-new-r35-from-nigms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/dr-parul-johri-awarded-new-r35-from-nigms\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Parul Johri Awarded New R35 from NIGMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12427\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 254px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12427 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2023\/01\/Parul-Johri.jpg\" alt=\"Parul Johri\" width=\"244\" height=\"325\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Parul Johri, PhD (Assistant Professor of Biology and Genetics)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lead\">Parul Johri, PhD (Assistant Professor of Biology and Genetics) received a new R35 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) for her project titled \u201cJointly modeling the effects of evolutionary processes on genomic variation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The work will result in a better understanding of how natural selection shapes genomic variation, as well as the development and application of methods that jointly account for multiple evolutionary processes.\u00a0The first goal will be to generate a better estimate of the shape of the genome-wide fitness effects of new mutations. 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