My full CV can be found here , with a brief form below.
PhD, Committee on Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago (2020-present)
Advisor(s): Jeremy Berg/John Novembre
MS, Botany, University of Wyoming (2018-2020)
Advisor: Alex Buerkle
BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Wyoming (2014-2017)
Minor in Computational Science
Advisor: Suresh Muknahallipatna
Harrison JG, Calder WJ, Shastry V, Buerkle CA (2020)
Dirichlet‐Multinomial modelling outperforms alternatives for analysis of microbiome and other ecological count data (published in Molecular Ecology Resources, bioRxiv)
Shastry V, Adams PE, Lindtke D, Mandeville EG, Parchman TL, Gompert Z, Buerkle CA (2021)
Model-based genotype and ancestry estimation for potential hybrids with mixed-ploidy (published as ‘From the Cover’ article in Molecular Ecology Resources, bioRxiv)
Shastry V, Bell K, Buerkle CA, Fordyce J, Forister M, Gompter Z, Lebeis S, Lucas L, Marion Z, Nice C (2022) A continental-scale survey of Wolbachia infections in blue butterflies reveals evidence of interspecific transfer and invasion dynamics (published in G3:Genes|Genomes|Genetics, preprint)
Li Z, Rasic M, Kwan M, Sepulveda M, McIntosh C, Shastry V, Chen L, Finn P, Perkins D, Alegre ML (2023) Oral administration of the commensal Alistipes onderdonkii prolongs allograft survival (published in American Journal of Transplantation; paper)
entropy: genotype and ancestry estimation for mixed-ploidy, installable through source or as a conda package
CNVRG: R package for a Dirichlet-Multinomal model to quantify differential abundance in microbial count data