Jazlyn Mooney received her Ph.D. in Human Genetics from the University of California, Los Angeles where she studied the persistence of deleterious variation across multiple species. She then transitioned to Stanford University as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG) Fellow, where she focused on mathematical models of population history. At USC, the Mooney lab will create new methods to conduct demographic inference focusing on diverse populations and continue to explore the persistence of deleterious variation across taxa using genomic segments that are inherited from recent shared ancestors.