CURRENT LAB MEMBERS

 

 

 

Ryan Hernandez, postdoctoral researcher

rhernandez at uchicago.edu

 

Text Box: I obtained a B.A. with honors in mathematics from Pitzer College (Claremont, CA) in 2003, and completed my Ph.D. with Carlos Bustamante at Cornell University in January 2008.  My research has focused on developing population genetic models of demography and selection to better understand modern day patterns of genetic variation. I also have a keen interest in using detailed forward simulations to gain insight into complex biological phenomena.

 

 


 

Joanna Kelley, postdoctoral researcher

jlkelley at uchicago.edu

 

Text Box: Joanna completed a dual degree in mathematics and biology at Brown University in 2003. She finished her Ph.D. in Genome Sciences with Willie Swanson at University of Washington in March 2008. Her research interests are focused around understanding positive selection in human populations. She is currently working on dating the age of selected alleles.

 

 

 

 

 


 

Danny Wilson, postdoctoral researcher

djw at uchicago.edu

 

Text Box: My research interests center on the application of population genetics tools to solving problems in human infectious iseases. Another major interest of mine is detecting the signature of natural selection within populations. My software omegaMap is designed to address that problem in recombining populations, and is available to download from www.danielwilson.me.uk.

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Céline Becquet, graduate student

5th year, Dept. of Human Genetics
cbecquet at uchicago.edu

 

Text Box: Celine graduated from INSA in Lyon, France with a Masters in Bioinformatics and Modeling Engineering (2003). Before moving to Chicago, she spent a year working with Nick Barton and Peter Andolfatto at Edinburgh University and two years as a graduate student at Brown University. Her research focuses on demographic inference, particularly in apes, and includes methodology development and data analysis. In particular, she developed the program MIMAR, available at http://mplab.bsd.uchicago.edu/dataNprograms.htm. For more information, see http://pps-spud.uchicago.edu/~cbecquet/index.html.

 


 

Kevin Bullaughey, graduate student

3rd year, Dept. of Ecology and Evolution

bullaugh at uchicago.edu

 

Text Box: Kevin was a double major in Computational Biology and Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania (2004). He then spent a year studying and traveling in China and Taiwan.  He is the recipient of an NSF pre-doctoral fellowship, and is interested in the genetic architecture of gene expression as well as an assortment of other questions about natural selection and recombination.

 

 

 


 

Adi Fledel-Alon, graduate student

3rd year, Dept. of Human Genetics
adia at uchicago.edu

 

Text Box: Adi holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel (2001) and a Masters in Operations Research from Cornell University (2003). She worked as a programmer for Carlos D. Bustamante at Cornell for two years before joining the dept. Her research concentrates on the evolution of recombination rates in primates.

 

 

 


 

PAST MEMBERS

 

Kosuke Teshima, postdoc (4/2004-6/2006)

Now at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan

 

Leslie Herrmann, senior thesis (6/04-5/05)

Currently a medical student at Brown University, Providence RI.

 

Susan Ptak, postdoc (2/02-12/03)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany


 

 

ROTATION STUDENTS AND VISITORS

 

Ran Blekhman (6/2006-9/2006)

Currently, member of the Gilad lab, Dept. of Human Genetics

 

Tomas Marques (9/2005-10/2005; 2/2007)

Currently, postdoc in the lab of Evan Eichler (UWashington)