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[[Image:Abecasis2015Retreat.JPG|750px|center|Group Photo 2014]]



== Mission Statement ==

We are developing and applying computational and statistical tools to further understanding of complex human diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

== Leadership ==

[[Goncalo Abecasis]] is currently the Felix Moore Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

== Current Members ==

=== Research Fellows ===

[[File:Kuser.png|50px]] Christian Fuchsberger

[[File:LarsFritsche_crop.jpg|50px]] [[Lars Fritsche]]

[[File:Kuser.png|50px]] Jingjing Yang

=== Graduate Students ===

[[File:Brieger_Katharine_1.jpg|50px]] Katharine Brieger

[[File:Kuser.png|50px]] Sai Chen

[[File:Kuser.png|50px]] Nate Cohen

[[File:SantyPic.jpeg|50px]] [[Sayantan Das|Sayantan Das]]

[[File:Kuser.png|50px]] Michelle Kleckner

[[File:HeadOfAlanKwong.jpg|50px]] [[Alan Kwong]]

[[File:Kuser.png|50px]] Sebanti Sengupta

[[File:Gregory3.jpg|50px]] Greg Zajac

[[File:Kuser.png|50px]] Fan Zhang

[[File:Kuser.png|50px]] Wanlin Zheng

[[File:Kuser.png|50px]] Wei Zhou

[[File:Xutong.jpg|50px]] Xutong Zhou

=== Staff ===

[[File:Irene_headshot.jpg|50px]] Irene Felicetti : Administrative Assistant Sr.

[[File:TomBlackwell_crop.jpg|50px]] [[Tom Blackwell]] : Research Area Specialist Sr.

[[File:Sean_head.jpg|50px]] [[Sean Caron]] : UNIX Systems Administrator

[[File:Kuser.png|50px]] Chris Clark : Applications Programmer/Analyst Sr.

[[File:Kevin_Web-Profile.jpg ‎|50px]] Kevin Li : Web Applications Developer

[[File:MK_head.jpg|50px]] [[Mary Kate Wing]] : Applications Programmer working on GotCloud Pipelines, C++ library & tools (libStatGen, bamUtils)

[[File:Johanna_Web-Profile.jpg |50px]] Johanna Forster : Research Area Specialist Intermediate

== Alumni ==

=== Former Research Faculty ===

* Hyun Min Kang (''graduated in 2011''), now Assistant Professor at the [http://www.sph.umich.edu/biostat/ University of Michigan School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics].

=== Former Research Fellows ===

* Weimin Chen (graduated 2007), now Associate Professor at the [http://people.virginia.edu/~wc9c/ Department of Public Health Sciences & Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia]

* Goo Jun (graduated 2008), now Assistant Professor at the [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1wzhcEQAAAAJ&hl=en University of Texas Health Sciences Center]

* Bingshan Li (graudated 2011), now Assistant Professor at the [https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cqs/people/Bingshan/Li/cqs-faculty-members Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University]

* [[Dajiang Liu]] (graduated 2013), now Assistant Professor at the [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dajiang/ Penn State University College of Medicine]

* Serena Sanna (graduated 2007), now an investigator at the [http://www.serenasanna.com/ Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia in Sardinia, Italy]

* Paul Scheet (graduated 2008), now Associate Professor at [http://faculty.mdanderson.org/Paul_Scheet/Default.asp?SNID=221605974 Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center]

* Carlo Sidore (graduated 2012), now an investigator at the [http://www.cnr.it/istituti/DatiGenerali.html?cds=060 Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia in Sardinia, Italy]

* Fabio Busonero (graduated 2012), now an investigator at the [http://www.cnr.it/istituti/DatiGenerali.html?cds=060 Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia in Sardinia, Italy]

* William Stewart (graduated 2008), now Assistant Professor at [http://www.mathmed.org/#William_Stewart Battelle Center for Computational Medicine, Departments of Statistics and Pediatrics, National Children's Hospital and Ohio State University]

* Alex Tsoi (graduated 2014), now Research Assistant Professor at [https://www.med.umich.edu/DERM/faculty/alextsoi_pub.shtml University of Michigan Medical School]

* [[Scott Vrieze]] (graduated 2014), now an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at [http://www.colorado.edu/ibg/people/471 University of Colorado, Boulder]

=== Former Doctoral Students ===

* Wei Chen (graduated 2011), now Assistant Professor at the [http://www.chp.edu/CHP/Chen%2C+Wei%2C+PhD Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center]

* Jun Ding (graduated 2010), now Staff Scientist / Facility Head at the [http://www.grc.nia.nih.gov/branches/lg/lg.htm Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging (NIH)].

* Shuang Feng (graduated 2015), now Research Scientist at Big Data Lab at Hitachi America Ltd.

* Weihua Guan (graduated 2010), now Assistant Professor at the [http://sph.umn.edu/faculty1/expertise/statistical-genetics/name/weihua-guan/ Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota School of Public Health].

* Yun Li (graduated 2009), now Assistant Professor at the [http://www.sph.unc.edu/?option=com_profiles&Itemid=6138&profileAction=ProfDetail&pid=708777879 Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina].

* Youna Hu (graduated 2012), now a Data Sciences Engineer at A9, a subsidiary of Amazon.com

* Mingyao Li (graduated 2005), now Associate Professor at the [http://www.cceb.upenn.edu/faculty/index.php?id=159 Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania]

* Liming Liang (graduated 2009), now Assistant Professor at the [http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/liming-liang/ Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Harvard University]

* Tasha Fingerlin (graduated 2003), now Associate Professor at the [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/PublicHealth/departments/Epidemiology/About/Faculty/Pages/FingerlinT.aspx Section of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center]

* Sara Rashkin (graduated 2015), now Post Doc at [http://wittelab.ucsf.edu/pages/people UCSF Witte Lab]

* Andrew Skol (graduated 2006), now Assistant Professor at the [http://med-www02.bsd.uchicago.edu/339/FacultyPro/faculty_profile.aspx?empl_id=10164 Section of Genetic Medicine, University of Chicago]

* [[Xiaowei Zhan]] (graduated 2014), now Assistant Professor at the [http://profiles.utsouthwestern.edu/profile/152189/xiaowei-zhan.html Department of Clinical Science, University of Texas - Southwestern Medical Center].

* Jin Zhen (graduated 2009), now working in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

=== Former Masters Students ===

* Su Chu

* Melinda Curran

* Vesela Gateva

* Xijing Han

* Dan Hovelson

* Elizabeth Jewell

* Ben Lerch

* Yanming Li

* Heather Munro

* Nick Seewald

* Theresa Scott (nee Daigneault)

* Matthew Snyder

* Vivian Wang

* Yuan Wei

* Abigail Woodroffe

* Zaojun Ye

* Matthew Zawitowski

* Anita Yu Zhao

* Tingting Zhou

=== Former Staff ===

* Paul Anderson

* Laura Baker

* [[Jennifer Bragg-Gresham]]

* Jan Wigginton

=== Visitors ===

* Qing Lu

* Andrea Maschio

* Giorgio Pistis

* Eleanora Porcu

* Toshiko Tanakato

== Really Useful Stuff ==

* [[Abecasis Group Awards]]
* [https://calendars.office.microsoft.com/pubcalstorage/m3n2kr0z1470909/Goncalo_Abecasis_Calendar(1).ics Goncalo's Calendar]