Lin Yuan (Lynn)

Lin Yuan (Lynn)

she/her/hers

About me

Hi there~ I am Lin, a second-year Genetics PhD student at Cornell University supervised by Prof. April Wei.

Before that, I graduated with a B.Sc. in Cell and Molecular Biology and a minor in Computer Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I also had a lovely time at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, UC Berkeley, University of Toronto, and Karolinska Institutet for term-time exchanges and summer research.

Here is my CV (Last update: Mar 2026)

I have eternal curiosity and passion about science and research, and am more than willing to talk with people about new ideas! I am also excited about science promotion and enjoy engaging with young students and the community.

Research Interests

I am pretty much interested in working on computational and population genomics. So far I have been working on:

  1. Evaluating the effect of genetic rescue in Florida Panthers (Puma concolor)

  2. Investigating the evolution and genetic basis of coloration in strawberry poison frogs (Oophaga pumilio)

  3. Revealing the herbivory evolution of mangrove crabs (Episesarma versicolor, Parasesarma bidens, and Metopograpsus frontalis)

  4. Genotype imputation with Genotype-Representation Graph.

  5. Phylodynamic simulation of TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis).

  6. Recombination landscape analyses of human pangenome data.

  7. Realistic simulation and detection of gene conversion.

Feel free to contact me if you have anything to discuss!

Hobbies

In my spare time, I love cooking & baking, visiting museums, listening to classical music, and practicing Zheng (Chinese plucked zither). Recently I have become avid on sports, and my ambition is to finish a half-marathon in 2hr 5min and confidently ski a black route by the time I graduate from Cornell. I love traveling to different places, talking to people, tasting local foods and recreating them in my own kitchen.

I enjoy playing board games with families and friends, especially Hanabi and Pandemic. We are keen on exploring and optimizing playing strategies, and I am currently practicing up to Lv.12 and experienced at Lv.9 for Hanabi. Please contact me if you wanna play with me~

I am very proud of my cooking talent and enjoy realizing my wildest ideas of balancing or emphasizing aromas and flavors to my everyday cooking. If I were not attracted by biology, I would choose to be a chef. I will have a page here sooner or later to document my cooking and favorite recipes :D