research+interest+Lisha

PhD student
 * Lisha Naduvilezhath**

Developing a new method to estimate parameters of complex demographic histories based on DNA sequence data is my primary interest. For this we summarize the data set with a set of summary statistics which are based on the joint site frequency spectrum and use a composite-likelihood approach.

Our focal data set for application are sequences from two closely related wild tomato species, //Solanum chilense// and //S. peruvianum//. These species are endemic to the western coast of South America and are closely related to the cultivated tomato.