Shaila Musharoff

Dr. Shaila Musharoff serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Biology within Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), joining in January 2023 through both the CALS Cohort Initiative and NIH FIRST faculty program.

Her academic training includes a Ph.D. in Genetics under Dr. Carlos Bustamante at Stanford University, followed by postdoctoral positions with Dr. Noah Zaitlen at UCSF and Dr. Jonathan Pritchard at Stanford University.

Specializing in population and statistical genetics, Musharoff investigates how demographic factors (admixture, assortative mating, migration, sex-bias) shape genetic variation to develop methods for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and polygenic scoring in diverse populations. Current projects examine population-specific gene-environment interactions, heterogeneity in genetic/environmental data, and continuous ancestry descriptors for disease research.

No scientific awards were documented in the source materials.

Establishing the Musharoff Research Lab at Cornell's Atkinson Hall, she is building her research team with no current students or grants explicitly referenced in available documentation.