Javier Blanco Portillo

Hola qué tal 🌻

I'm a Biology PhD candidate at Stanford University working under the supervision of Prof. Marcus Feldman and Prof. Alexander Ioannidis. Funded by Stanford's Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF), my current interests are:

• To expand upon our historical analysis of Polynesian settlement patterns (see below), incorporating these insights into precision medicine strategies tailored to admixed minority populations who remain underrepresented in modern genomic databases.

• To extend the study of gene-culture coevolution (also known as dual inheritance theory), leveraging high-dimensional datasets across diverse disciplines to illuminate the dynamic relationships between genes, culture, and ecology.

• To help understand the evolution of languages, particularly creoles, by borrowing techniques from population genetics.

Published projects I have worked on

And some photos too! For more details, you can visit my Google Scholar page.

"When I say infinity, I mean now

Kiss the one you are right now

Kiss your body up and down, other than your elbows

'Cause as for your elbows, they're on their own

Wandering like a rolling stone

Rubbing up against the edges of experience"

Big Thief, Spud Infinity