Lakshitha received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Florida. He is a highly motivated, reliable, dynamic, and collaborative researcher with a diverse set of technical, problem-solving, and communication skills. He has demonstrated aptitude in adaptability, creativity, and the ability to work with multidisciplinary teams. His expertise spans through: Bioconjugates chemistry, protein engineering, polymer chemistry, biology and biochemistry, bioinformatics, computational modeling and mutational analysis, genomics, project management, scripting, data analysis, organizational skills, public speaking, and presentation. Lakshitha is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the Gamazon lab. 

Allie is a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Vanderbilt. After graduating from Haverford College with degrees in math and computer science, she worked in software development and later in computational genetics research before arriving at Vanderbilt. She looks forward to continuing to integrate her research interests in psychiatric genomics in the Davis lab with her clinical interest in psychiatry.

Cathy Shyr, PhD, received her PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard University in 2022. Her doctoral research focused on developing statistical and machine learning methods for multi-study prediction and causal inference. Cathy's postdoc advisor is Dr. Paul Harris, and her current research interests include All of Us clinical trial eligibility and developing statistical machine learning methods for rare diseases. 

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