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
CitizenshipAustralian
EducationUniversity of Edinburgh (BSc, 1984; PhD, 1989)
Cornell University (MS, 1986)[1]
Known forResearch on genetic architecture of complex traits
Scientific career
FieldsQuantitative genetics
InstitutionsUniversity of Queensland
ThesisConsequences of selection in finite populations with particular reference to closed nucleus herds of pigs (1989)
Doctoral advisorsBill Hill
Robin Thompson

References

  1. "Naomi Wray". Program in Complex Trait Genomics. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  2. "Professor Naomi Wray". Queensland Brain Institute. 19 August 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  3. "Professor Naomi Ruth Wray". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  4. "Academy elects 28 new Fellows". AAHMS - Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.


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