Petar Pajic

I am an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University with a Ph.D. in evolutionary genetics. I recently joined the lab of Dr. Stacy Malaker to gain expertise in glycoproteomics. I am broadly curious in understanding how genomic structural variants, commonly found in human genomes, contribute to evolution, function, and disease susceptibility.

Petar received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo in Biological Sciences. He has extensive clinical/surgical experience having done several internships at hospitals, and has conducted years of research in Oral Biology under the mentorship of Dr. Stefan Ruhl.

Petar's dissertation pertained to understanding the variation and evolution of mucins, genes that make mucus that are heavily involved in several disease phenotypes.