B.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998
M.S., University of South Carolina, 2004
Ph.D., University of Delaware, 2009
I am interested in the analysis of genetic variation among individuals and populations through the utilization of high-throughput genome sequencing and the development of genetic markers for genotyping.
As a postdoctoral researcher in the Noor Lab at Duke, my research is focused on the use of bioinformatics to investigate the association between recombination rate and codon usage bias in two Dipteran groups- fruit fly species (focusing on Drosophila pseudoobscura) and the scuttle fly, Megaselia scalaris. Previously published Drosophila genome sequences and the high-coverage reference genome sequence of M. scalaris produced by our lab will allow me to use computational tools to compare the correlation of codon bias and recombination rate among the species. My background in population genetics of marine invertebrates has led me to explore variation among populations of M. scalaris.
Varney, R. L., and M. A. F. Noor. 2011. Inconsistent associations between recombination rate and codon bias across Drosophila species. Drosophila Information Service, 94: in press.
Varney, R. L., and M. A. F. Noor. 2010. Quick guide: The scuttle fly. Current Biology, 20: R466-R467 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.043.
Varney, R. L., C. Galindo-Sanchez, P. Cruz, and P.M. Gaffney. 2009. Population genetics of the Eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791) in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Shellfish Research 28(4): 855-864 doi:10.2983/035.028.0415.
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