Lin Poyraz

PhD Student

I am a third year Biology PhD Student at Columbia University advised by Prof. Molly Przeworski. I graduated from Cornell University in 2023 where I was advised by Prof. Andy Clark.

Publications

March  ’26
Cis-regulatory evolution of Wnt-family genes contributes to a morphological difference between silkworm species
PLOS Biology, March 2026
Kenta Tomihara, Ana Pinharanda, Young Mi Kwon, Andrew M. Taverner, Laura Kors, Matthew L. Aardema, Julia C. Holder, Lin Poyraz, Patrick F. Reilly, Takashi Kiuchi, Peter Andolfatto
DOI PubMed bioRxiv
March  ’24
Predicting functional consequences of recent natural selection in Britain
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 41, Issue 3, March 2024
Code DOI bioRxiv

Conferences

ProbGen  ’26
Berkeley, CA
Leveraging relatedness in genomic datasets to study variation in germline mutation rates
Talk
Vanesa Getseva, Lin Poyraz, Anastasia Stolyarova, Ipsita Agarwal, Molly Przeworski
BOG  ’24
Cold Spring Harbor
Interspecific hybrid incompatibilites are common and well-resolved between two species of silk moths
Poster
Lin Poyraz, Ana Pinharanda, Peter Andolfatto
ASHG  ’23
Washington D.C.
Predicting functional consequences of recent natural selection in Britain
Poster
EEBST  ’23
Istanbul
Incorporating functional information into ancient DNA based selection scans
Talk
ASHG  ’22
Los Angeles
Using polygenic scores to detect gene-environment interactions associated with human complex traits
Talk
SMBE  ’21
Remote
Using polygenic scores to detect gene-environment interactions associated with body mass index
Talk