Genevieve Housman
Genevieve Housman leads the Skeletal Genomics Lab in the Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Her research focuses on primate functional genomics, complex trait evolution, and skeletal development and maintenance.
Housman's research career began in 2011 when she joined Anne Stone’s group at Arizona State University for her graduate studies. She earned her PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology from Arizona State University in 2017, where she examined patterns of epigenetic variation in skeletal tissues from nonhuman primates, characterizing regulatory differences between species and associations with complex skeletal traits. Following her doctoral studies, Housman conducted postdoctoral research in Yoav Gilad's group at the University of Chicago, developing skeletal cell culture systems using human and nonhuman primate pluripotent cell lines to study gene expression differences in skeletal cell types at population and evolutionary scales, across developmental time points, and in response to environmental perturbations. In 2023, Housman established her research group at the Max Planck Institute, where her team continues to work with cell culture systems, primary skeletal tissues, and genomics methods to improve understanding of the complex relationship between genotype and phenotype in primates.
