Abecasis Lab

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Group Photo 2016
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

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 : OS Programmer Lead

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

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

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