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William Valdar Principal Investigator Professor (Dept of Genetics) Background: brief biosketch |
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Marissa Ashner Graduate student (Biostatistics) Background: appl math (BS, Illinois Tech) Project: modeling phenotypic variability |
| Yuriko Harigaya Graduate student (BCB & Dept of Genetics) Background: biophys & biochem (BS, MS, PhD, Tokyo) Co-advised with Mike Love Project: Statistical modeling of gene by treatment interactions in humans |
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| Teresa McGee Graduate student (BCB & Dept of Genetics) Background: chemistry (BA Blinn Coll), genetics (BS Texas A & M) Project: Statistical analysis of gene by treatment interactions in mouse models |
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| Ellen Risemberg Graduate student (BCB & Dept of Genetics) Background: mol cell biol (BA Vanderblit) Co-advised with Marty Ferris Project: statistical genetics of SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccine efficiency in a multiparent mouse model |
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| Jialiu Xie Graduate student (Biostatistics) Background: stat & math (BS, Illinois Urbana-Champaign), stat (MS, UNC-CH) Project: Gene-by-diet by parent-of-origin effects on RNAseq gene expression |
Affiliates
Jeff Roach, staff member, ITS
Former lab members
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Kathie Sun Graduate student (BCB & Dept of Genetics) Background: env/biol (BS Duke; MS UNC-CH) Project: quantitative genetics and epigenetics in multiparental populations Next/current position: Associate Scientist in Bioinformatics, Regeneron |
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Yanwei Cai Graduate student (BCB & Dept of Genetics) Background: biol sci (BS, Fudan, China) Project: computational/statistical genetics Next/current position: Staff Scientist, Fred Hutchinson Institute, WA |
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Wes Crouse Graduate student (BCB & Dept of Genetics) Co-advised with Samir Kelada Background: econ/math (BA, UNC-CH) Next/current position: postdoc, Xin He and Matthew Stephens Labs, U Chicago. |
| Jennifer Chen Undergraduate student (Biostatistics & Computer Science) Project: computational/statistical genetics Next/current position: MS student, John’s Hopkins |
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Robert Corty PhD student (2013-2018) BCB & Dept of Genetics) Background: chem/physical biol (AB, Harvard) Project: modeling phenotypic variability Next/current position: Clinical Fellow in Rheumatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. |
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Dan Oreper PhD student (2013-2018; BCB & Dept of Genetics) Background: comps sci (BS, MEng, MIT) Next/current position: Bioinformatics Associate, Genentech. |
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Greg Keele PhD Student (2013-2018; BCB & Dept of Genetics) Background: biol sci (BS, Nebraska-Lincoln), biostat (MS, Michigan) Next/current position: postdoc, Gary Churchill Lab, Jackson Laboratory. |
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Paul Maurizio PhD student (2013-2018; BCB & Dept of Genetics) Co-advised with Mark Heise Background: biochem (BA, Swarthmore), microbio/immuno (ScM, Hopkins) Next/current position: postdoc, Berreiro Lab, U Chicago; Bioinformatics Scientist, Vaccine Research Center, NIAID. |
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Yunjung Kim Research Assistant Professor (Dept of Genetics) Background: pharm (BS, Yeung Nam, Korea), stat (MS, Iowa), bioinf (NC State) Next/current position: senior research scientist, Rho Inc. |
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Yuying Xie PhD student (2010-2015; Dept of Statistics), RA (Dept of Genetics) Co-advised with Yufeng Liu Background: biol sci (BS, Fudan), genetics (PhD, UNC), stat (MS, UNC) Next/current position: Associate Professor (tenured), Michigan State University |
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Jeremy Sabourin PhD student (2010-2013; STOR with Andrew Nobel); Postdoc (2013-2014; Genetics) Background: math/stat (BA, Castleton), stat (MS, PhD, UNC) Next/current position: NIH-IRTA postdoctoral fellow, Wilson Group, NHGRI |
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Alan Lenarcic Postdoc (2010-2014; Dept of Genetics) Background: physics (AB, Harvard), stat (AM, PhD, Harvard) Next/current position: Quantitative Fellow, US Securities and Exchange Commission |
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Zhaojun Zhang PhD student (2010-2014; Computer Science, with Wei Wang) Background: comp sci (BS, Peking) Next/current position: Software Engineer at Coursera Inc. |
Current and former rotation students
- Teresa McGee, BBSP rotation student, Spring 2022
- Kalika Kamat, BBSP rotation student, Winter 2021
- Ellen Risemberg, BBSP rotation student (joint with Marty Ferris), Fall 2020
- Yuriko Harigaya, BBSP rotation student (joint with Marty Ferris), Winter 2019
- Jamshaid Shahir, BBSP rotation student, Winter 2018
- Siyao Liu, BBSP rotation student (joint with Mark Heise), Summer 2017
- Kathie Sun, BBSP rotation student, Summer 2016
- Yanwei Cai, BBSP rotation student, Spring 2016
- Youli Xia, BBSP rotation student, Winter 2015
- Thanh Hoang, BBSP rotation student, Winter 2015
- Wes Crouse, BBSP rotation student (joint with Samir Kelada), Winter 2014
- Robert Corty, MD/PhD rotation student, Summer 2013
- Paul Maurizio, BBSP rotation student (joint with Mark Heise), Winter 2012/2013
- Bailey Peck, BBSP rotation student (joint with Daniel Pomp), Winter 2012/2013
- Greg Keele, BBSP rotation student, Fall 2012
- Dan Oreper, BBSP rotation student, Fall 2011