Rachel O’Neill is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and the John and Donna Krenicki Professor in Genomics and Personalized Healthcare at the University of Connecticut and serves as Director of the Institute for Systems Genomics and Director of the Center for Genome Innovation. Dr. O’Neill research programs in genome biology employ comparative genomics approaches across several model and non-traditional systems, including human, non-human primates, broad mammalian and bird lineages, marsupials, and deep ocean marine species.