Center for Computational Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine (CCBGM) An NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center

Alexander E. Lipka is an Assistant Professor of Biometry in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include the development of optimal statistical approaches for genome-wide association studies and genomic selection. He participates in multidisciplinary collaborations that focus on various genomic-related issues including the contributions of nonadditive effects to phenotypic variation and the identification of genomic variants associated with agronomic and health-related traits.