I have a Bachelor's in Biochemistry and Chemistry, and a Master's in Bioinformatics from Makerere University. During my Master's research, I used whole-genome sequence data to identify loci associated with local environmental adaptation of indigenous cattle from Uganda. Cattle are invaluable to the people of Uganda, and identifying loci associated with local adaptation to tropical pests and diseases provides a theoretical basis to support breed amelioration programs. To continue learning about adaptation in sexual organisms, I pursued a bioinformatics fellowship with the Pan-African Mosquito Control Association and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. The fellowship focused on bioinformatics training and detecting signatures of selection in African Anopheles mosquitoes after long-term exposure to insecticides.

While at the Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics, my PhD project will investigate the role of standing variation in adaptation using polymorphic populations of Drosophila. I will use the Evolve and Resequence approach to characterise the genetic architecture during temperature adaptation, shedding light on how standing variation shapes the genomic response to selection.