Mariadaria Ianni-Ravn

About

I'm a British/Danish/Italian PhD student in the Novembre Group at the University of Chicago, now in my fifth year of the Human Genetics program. My research is about how relatedness is structured in space: measuring how environments are shared between relatives, and what that means for the genetic architecture of complex traits.

Before Chicago I was in the Racimo lab at the University of Copenhagen, where I did an MSc in Bioinformatics and worked on spatial population genetics, mostly in ancient DNA. Before that I studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge.

Publications

Peer-reviewed

2025

Study design and the sampling of deleterious rare variants in biobank-scale datasets

Steiner, M.C., Rice, D.P., Biddanda, A., Ianni-Ravn, M.K., Porras, C., Novembre, J. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2025

Ten simple rules for success as a trainee-led outreach organization in computational biology education

Blanc, J., Steiner, M.C., Blake, L.E., Gibbons, E., Ianni-Ravn, M.K., Morgan, R.C., Parkinson, S., Porras, C., Zhong, E. · PLOS Computational Biology
2024

Exploring the effects of ecological parameters on the spatial structure of genetic tree sequences

Ianni-Ravn, M.K., Petr, M., Racimo, F. · Peer Community Journal

In preparation

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How demography shapes linkage disequilibrium with or without recombination

Kerdoncuff, E., Ianni-Ravn, M.K., Roze, D., Novembre, J., Lambert, A., Achaz, G.

Talks & posters

Talks

2025

Gordon Research Conference on Quantitative Genetics

Portland, ME
2025

Gordon Research Conference on Quantitative Genetics

Lucca, Italy
2025

Society for Modeling and Theory in Population Biology

Chicago, IL
2024

Midwest Population Genetics Meeting

Bloomington, IN

Posters

2025

American Society of Human Genetics
Boston, MA
2024

American Society of Human Genetics
Denver, CO
2024

Allied Conference of Human Genetics
Washington, DC
2023

Midwest Population Genetics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2023

Probabilistic Modelling in Genomics
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY

Awards

2025

Best graduate talk

Society for Modeling and Theory in Population Biology
2024

Best graduate talk

Midwest Population Genetics Meeting

Curriculum vitae

The full CV covers teaching, funding, and technical skills alongside everything listed here.

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Volunteering

2023–

Instructor & Marketing Director — UChicago COMBO

A trainee-led initiative in the Department of Human Genetics bringing computational biology education to elementary, middle, and high school students across Chicago. I teach workshops and oversee branding, newsletters, and public-facing communications.
2023–

Mentor — iMentor Chicago

One-to-one mentorship for a Chicago high school student, supporting long-term academic planning and college applications.
2025

Organizing committee — “AI in Genomics” Symposium

Graduate Program in Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago
2023

Admissions committee — Human Genetics

University of Chicago