Penka Markova-Raina

Penka is currently focusing on homeschooling her children and has paused other professional activities. She was a Graduate Student in the Petrov Lab from 2005-2011 where she pursued computational projects studying molecular evolution at the whole genome scale. Her research focused on molecular evolutionary genomics in Drosophila, primarily inference of selection, methods for selection inference in the presence of flawed genomics data, and evolution in disordered protein regions. Her main paper was published in Genome Research and caused quite a stir. Prior to her PhD work, Penka completed Masters degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and a Computer Science undergraduate degree at Purdue University.