Laura Kubatko
Professor, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology
Professor, Department of Statistics
The Ohio State University
219 Cockins Hall
1958 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210
Email: kubatko.2@osu.edu
About Me
I joined the faculty in the Department of Statistics at OSU in 2006, after spending seven years as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Mexico. I also hold a joint appointment in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at Ohio State. My other appointments include Faculty Affiliate of the Initiative in Population Research at Ohio State, Faculty Affiliate of the Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital, and Faculty Affiliate for Translational Data Analytics at Ohio State. I served as an Associate Editor for Systematic Biology from 2007 - 2020, as an Associate Editor for Evolution from 2008 - 2010, and as a Section Editor and member of the Senior Editorial Board for BMC Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from 2016 - 2022. I co-directed the Mathematical Biosciences Institute from 2019 - 2021, and have served as President-Elect/President/Past-President of the Society of Systematic Biologists from 2020-2022. I was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.
Research Interests
Statistical genetics, phylogenetics, population genetics, computational biology, statistical education
Education
- Ph.D. in Biostatistics, The Ohio State University, 1999
- M.S. in Statistics, The Ohio State Unviersity, 1996
- B.A. in Mathematics, B.A. in Biology, Hiram College, 1994
Media Coverage
- Translation Data Analytics Big Data for Good Feature: Fighting the Flies
- Big Ten Network LiveBIG Feature: How an Ohio State professor will save East Africa $1.25 billion dollars
- OSC in the Classroom feature for Stat 2480
- OSU ASC Voices of Excellence Podcast
- Stat 2480 featured as an Intel case study
- Work on Covid-19 Columbus variant
- Paper named to top 15 in Theoretical Population Biology in last 50 years
- Society of Mathematical Biology Interview
Talks on YouTube
- SSB Presidential Address: "Embracing Variabilty" (June 2022)
- Algorithms and Complexity Seminar (Fall 2020)
- Phyloseminar (2017)