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Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
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Research Core
Data Management and Statistics
People
Dr. Sheffield uses computation to ask and answer biological questions, specifically how DNA encodes regulatory networks that enable cellular differentiation. Dr. Sheffield grew up in California, but lived in many places in the US and abroad. He appreciates cultural diversity and spent much of his adult life living in Europe. As an undergraduate, he studied Bioinformatics and conducted research in phylogenetic systematics and population genetics with Michael Whiting and Keith Crandall.