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== Mission Statement ==
 
== Mission Statement ==
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=== Research Fellows ===
 
=== Research Fellows ===
  
* Goo Jun
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[[File:Kuser.png|50px]] Christian Fuchsberger
* Christian Fuchsberger
 
* Alex Tsoi
 
* [[Lars Fritsche]]
 
* [[Scott Vrieze]]
 
  
=== International Visitors ===
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[[File:Sarah.jpg.jpg|50px]] Sarah Gagliano
  
* Andrea Maschio
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[[File:PicJingjing.jpg|50px]] Jingjing Yang
* Giorgio Pistis
 
* Eleanora Porcu
 
  
 
=== Graduate Students ===
 
=== Graduate Students ===
  
* Sai Chen
 
  
* Sayantan Das
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[[File:SaiChen.jpg|50px]] Sai Chen
  
* [[Shuang_Feng|Shuang Feng]]
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[[File:Geng.jpg|50px]] Priscilla Geng
  
* [[Alan Kwong]]
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[[File:HeadOfAlanKwong.jpg|50px]]  [[Alan Kwong]]
  
* [[Ben Lerch]]
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[[File:Kuser.png|50px]] Sebanti Sengupta
  
* [[Sara Rashkin]]
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[[File:Headshot.jpg|50px]] Joshua Weinstock
  
* Sebanti Sengupta
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[[File:Gregory3.jpg|50px]] Greg Zajac
  
* Greg Zajac
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[[File:Fan.jpg|50px]] Fan Zhang
  
* Xiaowei Zhan
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[[File:Kuser.png|50px]] Wei Zhou
  
* Tingting Zhou
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[[File:Xutong.jpg|50px]] Xutong Zhao
  
 
=== Staff ===
 
=== Staff ===
  
* Laura Baker
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[[File:Irene_headshot.jpg|50px]] Irene Felicetti : Administrative Assistant Sr.
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[[File:TomBlackwell_crop.jpg|50px]]  [[Tom Blackwell]]  : Research Area Specialist Sr.
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[[File:Sean_head.jpg|50px]] [[Sean Caron]] : UNIX Systems Administrator
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[[File:Headshot-chris-clark-2 (3).jpg|50px]] Chris Clark : Applications Programmer/Analyst Sr.
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[[File:Kuser.png|50px]] Jonathon LeFaive  :  Applications Programmer/Analyst Sr.
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[[File:Kevin_Web-Profile.jpg ‎|50px]] Kevin Li  : Web Applications Developer
  
* [[Tom Blackwell]]
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[[File:IMG_4735.JPG|50px]] Anita Pandit  :  Research Computer Specialist
  
* [[Sean Caron]]
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[[File:Schmidt_small.jpg|50px]] Ellen Schmidt  :  Research Area Specialist Lead
  
* Kevin Li
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[[File:pjvh.jpg|50px]] Peter VandeHaar  :  Applications Programmer/Analyst Sr.
  
* [[Mary Kate Wing]]
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[[File:MK_head.jpg|50px]] [[Mary Kate Wing]] : Applications Programmer working on GotCloud Pipelines, C++ library & tools (libStatGen, bamUtils)
  
 
== Alumni ==
 
== Alumni ==
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=== Former Research Faculty ===
 
=== 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].
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* 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 ===
 
=== 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]
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* 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]
  
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]
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* Goo Jun (graduated 2014), now Assistant Professor at the [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1wzhcEQAAAAJ&hl=en University of Texas Health Sciences Center]
  
[[Dajiang Liu]] (graduated 2013), now Assistant Professor at the [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dajiang/ Penn State University College of Medicine]
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* 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]
  
Serena Sanna (graduated 2007), now an investigator at the [http://www.serenasanna.com/ Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia in Sardinia, Italy]
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* [[Dajiang Liu]] (graduated 2013), now Assistant Professor at the [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dajiang/ Penn State University College of Medicine]
  
Paul Scheet (graduated 2008), now Assistant Professor at [http://faculty.mdanderson.org/Paul_Scheet/Default.asp?SNID=221605974 Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center]
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* Serena Sanna (graduated 2007), now an investigator at the [http://www.serenasanna.com/ Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia in Sardinia, Italy]
  
Carlo Sidore (graduated 2012), now an investigator at the [http://www.serenasanna.com/ Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia in Sardinia, Italy]
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* 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]
  
Fabio Busonero (graduated 2012), now an investigator at the [http://www.serenasanna.com/ Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia in Sardinia, Italy]
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* 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]
  
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]
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* 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]
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* 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]
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* Alex Tsoi (graduated 2014), now Research Assistant Professor at [https://www.med.umich.edu/DERM/faculty/alextsoi_pub.shtml University of Michigan Medical School]
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* [[Scott Vrieze]] (graduated 2014), now an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at [http://www.colorado.edu/ibg/people/471 University of Colorado, Boulder]
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* [[Lars Fritsche]] (graduated 2016), now an Associate Professor at [http://www.ntnu.edu/ism the Department of Public Health and General Practice at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology] in Trondheim, Norway
  
 
=== Former Doctoral Students ===
 
=== 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]
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* Katharine Brieger, now Graduate Student, Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
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* 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]
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* 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)].
  
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)].
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* Shuang Feng (graduated 2015), now Senior Data Scientist at Uber.
  
Weigua 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].
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* 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].
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* 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 Research Fellow [http://cteg.berkeley.edu/members/hu.html working with Rasmus Nielsen at Berkeley]
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* Youna Hu (graduated 2012), now a Data Sciences Engineer at A9, a subsidiary of 23andMe, Inc.
  
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]
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* 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]
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* Liming Liang (graduated 2009), now Associate 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]
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* 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]
  
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]
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* Sara Rashkin (graduated 2015), now Post Doc at [http://wittelab.ucsf.edu/pages/people UCSF Witte Lab]
  
Jin Zhen (graduated 2009), now working in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
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* 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]
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* [[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].
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* Jin Zheng (graduated 2009), now working in the Pharmaceutical Industry at Eli Lilly.
  
 
=== Former Masters Students ===
 
=== Former Masters Students ===
  
Su Chu
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* Su Chu
  
Melinda Curran
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* Nate Cohen
  
Vesela Gateva
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* Melinda Curran
  
Xijing Han
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* Vesela Gateva
  
Dan Hovelson
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* Xijing Han
  
Elizabeth Jewell
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* Dan Hovelson
  
Yanming Li
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* Elizabeth Jewell
  
Heather Munro
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* Michelle Kleckner
  
Nick Seewald
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* Ben Lerch
  
Theresa Scott (nee Daigneault)
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* Yanming Li
  
Matthew Snyder
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* Heather Munro
  
Vivian Wang
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* Nick Seewald
  
Yuan Wei
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* Theresa Scott (nee Daigneault)
  
Abigail Woodroffe
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* Matthew Snyder
  
Zaojun Ye
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* Vivian Wang
  
Matthew Zawitowski
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* Yuan Wei
  
Anita Yu Zhao
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* Abigail Woodroffe
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* Zaojun Ye
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* Matthew Zawitowski
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* Anita Yu Zhao
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* Wanlin Zheng
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* Tingting Zhou
  
 
=== Former Staff ===
 
=== Former Staff ===
  
 
* Paul Anderson
 
* Paul Anderson
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* Laura Baker
  
 
* [[Jennifer Bragg-Gresham]]
 
* [[Jennifer Bragg-Gresham]]
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* Johanna Forster
  
 
* Jan Wigginton
 
* Jan Wigginton
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=== Visitors ===
 
=== Visitors ===
  
Toshiko Tanakato
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* Qing Lu
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* Andrea Maschio
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* Giorgio Pistis
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* Eleanora Porcu
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* Toshiko Tanakato
  
 
== Really Useful Stuff ==
 
== Really Useful Stuff ==

Latest revision as of 17:03, 23 March 2023

Group Photo 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

Kuser.png Christian Fuchsberger

Sarah.jpg.jpg Sarah Gagliano

PicJingjing.jpg Jingjing Yang

Graduate Students

SaiChen.jpg Sai Chen

Geng.jpg Priscilla Geng

HeadOfAlanKwong.jpg Alan Kwong

Kuser.png Sebanti Sengupta

Headshot.jpg Joshua Weinstock

Gregory3.jpg Greg Zajac

Fan.jpg Fan Zhang

Kuser.png Wei Zhou

Xutong.jpg Xutong Zhao

Staff

Irene headshot.jpg Irene Felicetti : Administrative Assistant Sr.


TomBlackwell crop.jpg Tom Blackwell : Research Area Specialist Sr.

Sean head.jpg Sean Caron : UNIX Systems Administrator

Headshot-chris-clark-2 (3).jpg Chris Clark : Applications Programmer/Analyst Sr.

Kuser.png Jonathon LeFaive : Applications Programmer/Analyst Sr.

Kevin Web-Profile.jpg Kevin Li : Web Applications Developer

IMG 4735.JPG Anita Pandit : Research Computer Specialist

Schmidt small.jpg Ellen Schmidt : Research Area Specialist Lead

Pjvh.jpg Peter VandeHaar : Applications Programmer/Analyst Sr.

MK head.jpg Mary Kate Wing : Applications Programmer working on GotCloud Pipelines, C++ library & tools (libStatGen, bamUtils)

Alumni

Former Research Faculty

Former Research Fellows

Former Doctoral Students

  • Katharine Brieger, now Graduate Student, Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
  • Shuang Feng (graduated 2015), now Senior Data Scientist at Uber.
  • Youna Hu (graduated 2012), now a Data Sciences Engineer at A9, a subsidiary of 23andMe, Inc.
  • Jin Zheng (graduated 2009), now working in the Pharmaceutical Industry at Eli Lilly.

Former Masters Students

  • Su Chu
  • Nate Cohen
  • Melinda Curran
  • Vesela Gateva
  • Xijing Han
  • Dan Hovelson
  • Elizabeth Jewell
  • Michelle Kleckner
  • 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
  • Wanlin Zheng
  • Tingting Zhou

Former Staff

  • Paul Anderson
  • Laura Baker
  • Johanna Forster
  • Jan Wigginton

Visitors

  • Qing Lu
  • Andrea Maschio
  • Giorgio Pistis
  • Eleanora Porcu
  • Toshiko Tanakato

Really Useful Stuff