Sarah Nicholson

Sarah received her PhD in Plant Biology from University of California, Davis. Her doctoral research focused on the dissection of quantitative trait variation in a multi-parent mapping population of maize, assessing the statistical power of various models to detect quantitative trait loci (QTL)  (Odell et al. (2022), G3) and the ability of gene expression QTL to explain variation in complex traits. Prior to her graduate training, Sarah worked as a Database Curator at GrainGenes, a USDA-funded genome database for small grains. Sarah joined the Park Lab in May 2024 as a Data Wrangler for the SMaHT Project.