Yuri Kulish

Yuri Kulish is a PhD student at Dalhousie University. Under the supervision of Dr. Joseph P. Bielawski, and working closely with developers of the IQTREE software at Australian National University, he is implementing and testing new feature support for IQTREE. His primary work is centered around developing the first major software support for a relatively new approach to detecting trait-associated adaptive evolution, the Phenotype-Genotype Branch-Site Model (PG-BSM). His research will build on this model to produce new methods for working with datasets of non-coding sequences, which will be included with its release. Yuri is also a Dalhousie alum, where he completed his undergraduate degree in Biology with a secondary focus in Computer Science.