Andrew Parker Morgan

Andrew Parker Morgan is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, where he works as a hospitalist. He joined UNC in July 2023 after completing his residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Duke University Hospital.

His educational background includes an MD and PhD in Genetics and Bioinformatics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His PhD research focused on mammalian genome evolution, particularly the evolution of the house mouse (Mus musculus) genome with emphasis on large duplications and population-genetic forces including recombination, mutation, selection and drift.

Morgan's research spans three primary areas: mammalian genome evolution, resources for mouse genetics, and pathogen genomics. His work on mouse genetics includes contributions to the Collaborative Cross and Diversity Outbred mouse populations, which are important resources for quantitative trait analysis. He has also maintained a comprehensive list of public whole-genome sequence datasets from wild mice to facilitate data-sharing in the research community. In pathogen genomics, he has studied population structure and selection in Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax during his time at the UNC Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology Lab.

His recent publications demonstrate a diverse research portfolio spanning mouse population genetics, malaria epidemiology, and clinical medicine. His work shows particular strength in analyzing genetic variation at multiple scales, from individual loci to population-level patterns. Morgan has also developed bioinformatics tools, including the 'argyle' R package for analysis of Illumina genotyping arrays.

He has been supervised by prominent researchers including Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena (UNC Systems Genetics research group) and Jonathan Juliano (UNC IDEEL). His publications appear in high-impact journals across genetics, evolutionary biology, and clinical medicine.

Morgan maintains the Wild Mouse Genomes Project, an effort to aggregate all existing whole-genome sequence data from wild house mice in a single location. This resource has become valuable for researchers studying mouse population genetics and evolution.