Research Interests
Alexis Battle is a 2016 Searle Scholar and an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science. She specializes in unlocking secrets of the human genome by analyzing large-scale genomic sequencing data to understand the impact of genetic variation on the human body.

Battle’s research is concentrated on the development of computational biology tools and machine-learning strategies to examine genetic differences on gene regulation and disease. A leading member of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Consortium, she focuses on predicting the effects of variation in noncoding DNA sequences. Findings of her work on a GTEx project, which studied how genetic patterns lead to molecular changes within specific tissues, were published in 2017 in the journal Nature.