Julia McAdams is a PhD student in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at University of Rhode Island, where her research applies evolutionary genomic and bioinformatic frameworks to understudied cancers and cancers underrepresented in omics sequencing corpora. Her work focuses on ovarian cancer, leveraging multi-modal sequencing datasets to uncover low-prevalence driver mutations, mutational signatures, and epistatic gene interactions that conventional frequency-based approaches overlook.
Beyond computational genomics, Julia is developing interests in the public health dimensions of gynecologic cancers, including epidemiological, psychological, and educational factors that shape cancer outcomes at the population level. She is also pursuing nascent research directions in cervical cancer biology and immunological interventions in cancer.