Hey, I'm Chris

PhD Student in Computational Biology @ Cornell | NSF Graduate Research Fellow

I develop bioinformatics tools and do research in Philipp Messer's lab. I'm interested in spatiotemporal patterns of genetic diversity. I contribute to the SLiM ecosystem, and I build software that helps scientists and educators work more effectively.

Population Genetics Tools

🌱 SLiM — Open-Source Contributor - Forward-time population genetic and evolutionary ecology simulation framework.
🌐 messerlab.org/slim · 📄 10.1093/molbev/msaf313
🌱 slim-vscode-tools — Open-Source Contributor - VS Code extension & LSP for SLiM.
ARGscape — Lead Developer - Web application for visualizing and analyzing tree sequences.
🌐 argscape.com · 📄 arXiv:2510.07255
fastgaia — Lead Developer - Fast ancestral location inference from ARGs.
gaiapy — Lead Developer - Python implementation of the GAIA spatial inference algorithms (Grundler et al., 2025).

Other Tools for Scientists & Educators

pubsync - Lead Develper — Publication aggregator and embeddable widget for academic websites.
Anstett Lab Website — Lead Developer - Lab website for Dr. Daniel Anstett at Cornell.
Cayuga Keep — Lead Developer - Volunteer and data management system for Discover Cayuga Lake.

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Easy-to-use interactive tools for spatiotemporal ancestral recombination graph analysis

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SLiM is a genetically explicit forward simulation software package for population genetics and evolutionary biology. It is highly flexible, with a built-in scripting language, and has a cross-platf…

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vscode extension for working with SLiM

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A Python implementation of the "GAIA" R package by Michael Grundler

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Lab website prototype for Dr. Daniel Anstett at Cornell

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Personal website with CV

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