Ph. D. student

E-mail: taylor dot fisher at emory dot edu

Born and raised in Georgia, Taylor received her BS in Biology from Georgia Tech in 2013. She completed her MSPH in Biostatistics at Emory University in 2017 and her PhD in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory. Her research interests include the development of statistical methods for human genetics and high-resolution metabolomics. Taylor likes to spend her spare time playing with her four pets and traveling.

Publications:

• Cis- and trans-eQTL TWASs of breast and ovarian cancer identify more than 100 susceptibility genes in the BCAC and OCAC consortia. AJHG 111, May 8, 2024   

• POIROT: a powerful test for parent-of-origin effects in unrelated samples leveraging multiple phenotypes. Bioinformatics 39(4), April 17, 2023

• Leveraging Family History in Case-Control Analyses of Rare Variation. Genetics 214(2), Feb. 1, 2020, p. 295-303