{"id":2273,"date":"2025-10-22T14:40:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:50:29","slug":"devin-keane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/devin-keane\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Keane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.6&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.6&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<div id=\"attachment_2315\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2315\" class=\"wp-image-2315 size-medium\" title=\"Devin Keane\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/DevinKeane_Photo2025-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"DevinKeane Photo2025\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DevinKeane Photo2025<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Devin Keane<\/p>\n<p>Graduate Student<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:dkeane2@clemson.edu\">dkeane2@clemson.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Biosketch<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Genetics and Biochemistry at Clemson University, based at the Institute for Human Genetics. \u00a0Before beginning my doctoral studies, I earned an M.S. in Genetics from Clemson University and worked as a Bioinformatics Analyst in the Diagnostics Division at the Greenwood Genetic Center. \u00a0My work there focused on automating clinical genomics pipelines and integrating next-generation sequencing workflows across AWS and Emedgene platforms.<\/p>\n<p>My current research under Dr. Shyamalika Gopalan focuses on using population-scale methylation and variant data to investigate the genetic and epigenetic architecture of aging. \u00a0I am particularly interested in how ancestry and admixture shape methylation patterns and how these patterns reflect conserved biological processes underlying age-related decline.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>My research combines population genomics, epigenetics, and computational modeling to understand how genetic variation and epigenetic regulation interact across diverse human populations. \u00a0Currently, I&#8217;m analyzing large sample sizes of long-read methylation data to construct genome-wide methylation matrices and identify methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTLs). \u00a0Ultimately, I aim to develop computational frameworks that reveal how molecular diversity contributes to human aging and evolutionary adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devin Keane Graduate Student Email: dkeane2@clemson.edu &nbsp; Biosketch I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Genetics and Biochemistry at Clemson University, based at the Institute for Human Genetics. \u00a0Before beginning my doctoral studies, I earned an M.S. in Genetics from Clemson University and worked as a Bioinformatics Analyst in the Diagnostics Division at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"[caption id=\"attachment_2272\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"200\"]<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2272\" title=\"Devin Keane\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/Devin-Keane-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Devin Keane\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/> Devin Keane[\/caption]<p>Devin Keane<\/p><p>Graduate Student<\/p><p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:dkeane2@clemson.edu\">dkeane2@clemson.edu<\/a><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><h3><strong>Biosketch<\/strong><\/h3><p>I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Genetics and Biochemistry at Clemson University, based at the Institute for Human Genetics. \u00a0Before beginning my doctoral studies, I earned an M.S. in Genetics from Clemson University and worked as a Bioinformatics Analyst in the Diagnostics Division at the Greenwood Genetic Center. \u00a0My work there focused on automating clinical genomics pipelines and integrating next-generation sequencing workflows across AWS and Emedgene platforms.<\/p><p>My current research under Dr. Shyamalika Gopalan focuses on using population-scale methylation and variant data to investigate the genetic and epigenetic architecture of aging. \u00a0I am particularly interested in how ancestry and admixture shape methylation patterns and how these patterns reflect conserved biological processes underlying age-related decline.<\/p><h3><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/h3><p>My research combines population genomics, epigenetics, and computational modeling to understand how genetic variation and epigenetic regulation interact across diverse human populations. \u00a0Currently, I'm analyzing large sample sizes of long-read methylation data to construct genome-wide methylation matrices and identify methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTLs). \u00a0Ultimately, I aim to develop computational frameworks that reveal how molecular diversity contributes to human aging and evolutionary adaptation.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-students","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}