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Revision as of 10:24, 19 January 2016
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
Christian Fuchsberger
International Visitors
Andrea Maschio
Giorgio Pistis
Eleanora Porcu
Graduate Students
Sai Chen
Sebanti Sengupta
Greg Zajac
Tingting Zhou
Staff
Laura Baker : Administrative Assistant 2008-Present
Sean Caron : UNIX systems administrator
Kevin Li
Mary Kate Wing : Applications Programmer working on GotCloud Pipelines, C++ library & tools (libStatGen, bamUtils)
Johanna Forster
Alumni
Former Research Faculty
- Hyun Min Kang (graduated in 2011), now Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics.
Former Research Fellows
- Weimin Chen (graduated 2007), now Associate Professor at the Department of Public Health Sciences & Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia
- Goo Jun (graduated 2008), now Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center
- Bingshan Li (graudated 2011), now Assistant Professor at the Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University
- Dajiang Liu (graduated 2013), now Assistant Professor at the Penn State University College of Medicine
- Serena Sanna (graduated 2007), now an investigator at the Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia in Sardinia, Italy
- Paul Scheet (graduated 2008), now Associate Professor at Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Carlo Sidore (graduated 2012), now an investigator at the Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia in Sardinia, Italy
- Fabio Busonero (graduated 2012), now an investigator at the Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia in Sardinia, Italy
- William Stewart (graduated 2008), now Assistant Professor at 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 University of Michigan Medical School
- Scott Vrieze (graduated 2014), now an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at University of Colorado, Boulder
Former Doctoral Students
- Wei Chen (graduated 2011), now Assistant Professor at the Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Jun Ding (graduated 2010), now Staff Scientist / Facility Head at the Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging (NIH).
- Weihua Guan (graduated 2010), now Assistant Professor at the Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
- Yun Li (graduated 2009), now Assistant Professor at the 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 Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania
- Liming Liang (graduated 2009), now Assistant Professor at the Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Harvard University
- Tasha Fingerlin (graduated 2003), now Associate Professor at the Section of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
- Andrew Skol (graduated 2006), now Assistant Professor at the Section of Genetic Medicine, University of Chicago
- Xiaowei Zhan (graduated 2014), now Assistant Professor at the 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
Former Staff
- Paul Anderson
- Jan Wigginton
Visitors
Toshiko Tanakato
