DR. AUSTIN REYNOLDS
PI - Assistant Professor
Education: Postdoc University of California, Davis
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
B.A. Indiana University, Bloomington
CELIA CLEARY
PhD Student
Celia is a PhD student in the Reynolds Lab, interested in investigating how forces of early urbanism and the built environment affect the genetic landscape across space and time in ancient Maya cities. She recently completed an M.A. in Anthropology at George Mason University, and completed her undergraduate studies in Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
STACY EDINGTON
PhD Candidate
Stacy is a PhD candidate in the Reynolds lab interested in human-pathogen coevolution and using genomics to measure population disease risk. She is currently working on population disease risk and immune response differences between hunter-gatherer and agriculturalist populations in South Africa.
Kahylen Minniefield
PhD Student
Kahylen is a first year PhD student in the lab working on questions around genetic ancestry, epigenetic aging, and Alzheimer's risk.
BROOKE MORRIS
PhD Student
Brooke is a graduate student in the Reynolds lab whose research focuses on genomic architecture of rare and common autoimmune diseases and how casual genes might differ depending on ancestral population groups. Her project is using genomes from a large biobank to look for causal genes, variants and if they share genetic architecture with other autoimmune diseases. Her undergraduate studies were in Forensic Anthropology and Biology.
Ishan Rereddy
Med Sci Master's Student
Ishan is a Master's Student in the Medical Sciences program at UNT Health. He is working on the portability of polygenic risk scores for Alzheimer's and related endophenotypes across genetic ancestries.
Former Lab Members
Mackenzie Smith (Undergraduate) 2021 - Now a PhD Student at Vanderbilt
Savannah Knutson (Undergraduate) 2022 - Now a PhD Student at UPenn
Paige Plattner (Master's) 2024 - Now in industry in the Pacific Northwest
Fernanda Mirón (Master's) 2025 - Now a PhD Student at Queen Mary's University London