Genevieve Housman

​Genevieve Housman leads the Skeletal Genomics Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Her research focuses on primate functional genomics, complex trait evolution, and skeletal development and maintenance. She has examined patterns of epigenetic variation in primate skeletal tissues and developed primate skeletal cell culture systems to study gene expression differences at population and evolutionary scales. Currently, her team works with cell culture systems, primary skeletal tissues, and genomics methods to improve our understanding of the complex relationship between genotype and phenotype in primates.