Abecasis Lab

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

Sarah Gagliano

Jingjing Yang

Graduate Students

Sai Chen

Priscilla Geng

Alan Kwong

Sebanti Sengupta

Joshua Weinstock

Greg Zajac

Fan Zhang

Wei Zhou

Xutong Zhao

Staff

Irene Felicetti : Administrative Assistant Sr.

Tom Blackwell : Research Area Specialist Sr.

Sean Caron : UNIX Systems Administrator

Chris Clark : Applications Programmer/Analyst Sr.

Jonathon LeFaive : Applications Programmer/Analyst Sr.

Kevin Li : Web Applications Developer

Anita Pandit : Research Computer Specialist

Ellen Schmidt : Research Area Specialist Lead

Peter VandeHaar : Applications Programmer/Analyst Sr.

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

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 2014), 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

• Lars Fritsche (graduated 2016), now an Associate Professor at the Department of Public Health and General Practice at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway

Former Doctoral Students

• Katharine Brieger, now Graduate Student, Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan

• 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).

• Shuang Feng (graduated 2015), now Senior Data Scientist at Uber.

• 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 23andMe, Inc.

• Mingyao Li (graduated 2005), now Associate Professor at the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania

• Liming Liang (graduated 2009), now Associate 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

• Sara Rashkin (graduated 2015), now Post Doc at UCSF Witte Lab

• 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 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

• Jennifer Bragg-Gresham

• Johanna Forster

• Jan Wigginton

Visitors

• Qing Lu

• Andrea Maschio

• Giorgio Pistis

• Eleanora Porcu

• Toshiko Tanakato

Really Useful Stuff

• Abecasis Group Awards
• Goncalo's Calendar