Nurdan Kuru is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Siepel Lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher from 2021 to 2024 at Adebali Lab at Sabancı University, Turkey. Her talk will discuss her work at Adebali Lab, where she developed phylogeny-aware algorithms for variant effect prediction and coevolution. She holds BSc and MSc degrees in Mathematics and a PhD in Industrial Engineering. Her current research focuses on computational evolution and population genomics, specifically developing a multi-ancestry polygenic risk score prediction approach.