Naomi Wray
Professor Naomi Ruth Wray FAA FAHMS is an Australian statistical geneticist at the University of Queensland, where she is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and an Affiliate Professor in the Queensland Brain Institute. She is also a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Principal Research Fellow and, along with Peter Visscher and Jian Yang, is one of the three executive team members of the NHMRC-funded Program in Complex Trait Genomics. She was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2016[2][3] and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2020.[4]
Naomi Wray | |
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| Citizenship | Australian |
| Education | University of Edinburgh (BSc, 1984; PhD, 1989) Cornell University (MS, 1986)[1] |
| Known for | Research on genetic architecture of complex traits |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Quantitative genetics |
| Institutions | University of Queensland |
| Thesis | Consequences of selection in finite populations with particular reference to closed nucleus herds of pigs (1989) |
| Doctoral advisors | Bill Hill Robin Thompson |
References
- "Naomi Wray". Program in Complex Trait Genomics. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
- "Professor Naomi Wray". Queensland Brain Institute. 19 August 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- "Professor Naomi Ruth Wray". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- "Academy elects 28 new Fellows". AAHMS - Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
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