Karin S Dorman

Dr. Karin S Dorman is a Professor and holds the Dale D. Grosvenor Chair at Iowa State University, with joint appointments in the Department of Statistics and the Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology. She specializes in biomathematics, focusing on modeling biological systems, including pathogen evolution and sequence analysis.

Education: B.S. in Mathematics and Biology (Indiana University, 1994), M.S. in Mathematics and Biology (Indiana University, 1994), Ph.D. in Biomathematics (University of California, Los Angeles, 2001).

Research interests include evolutionary biology, infectious disease dynamics, and computational methods for analyzing pathogen sequences. Her work addresses recombination detection in HIV and other pathogens, antimicrobial resistance modeling, and systems biology approaches to hematopoietic stem cell development.

Recent publications highlight advancements in genomic analysis tools (e.g., ATAC-seq peak callers), models for antimicrobial resistance in One Health contexts, and the role of inflammatory signaling in stem cell specification.

• Key Award: Dale D. Grosvenor Chair

Her research integrates mathematical, computational, and experimental approaches to address complex biological questions, with applications in virology, genetics, and systems biology.