Sawsan Wehbi

PhD Student

I am a Genetics GIDP PhD student, minoring in Astrobiology. I will be working on the long-term evolution of amino acid frequencies across the proteome. At the moment, I am working to assign ages to ancient protein domains. I have a background in bioinformatics and phylogenetics and I’m interested in the origins of life and Astrobiology.

Social links:

Email: sawsanwehbi@arizona.edu

Twitter: SeekingLUCA

Publications :

  • Wehbi, S. S., & Zu Dohna, H. (2021). A comparative analysis of L1 retrotransposition activities in human genomes suggests an ongoing increase in L1 number despite an evolutionary trend towards lower activity. Mobile DNA, 12(1), 26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13100-021-00255-x