Caribou along the Kongakut river near the Arctic Sea, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.


Current graduate students

Nicolas Bray
Hélder Pedro (joint with Adam Arkin)
Rahul Satija (joint with Jotun Hein, University of Oxford)
Meromit Schuster
Anne J. Shiu (joint with Bernd Sturmfels)

Current postdocs

Robert Bradley (joint with Michael Eisen)
Trevor Bruen
Radu Mihaescu (joint with Satish Rao)

Visitors

Cole Trapnell (student of Steven Salzberg, visiting UC Berkeley 2008-2009)
Ilan Gronau (student of Shlomo Moran, visiting UC Berkeley September 2008)

Graduated students

Listed by [The Mathematics Geneaology Project]

Peter M. Huggins, Ph.D. (2008) Polytopes in Computational Biology. Lane Fellow in Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University.
Radu H. Mihaescu, Ph.D. (2008) Distance Methods for Phylogeny Reconstruction (winner of the Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize for an outstanding thesis in applied mathematics). Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley.
Anat Caspi, Ph.D. (2007) Comparative Genomics of Repeat Elements. Postdoc, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania (with David Roos).
Ariel S. Schwartz, Ph.D. (2007) Posterior Decoding Methods for Optimization and Accuracy Control of Multiple Alignments. Researcher, Synthetic Genomics, San Diego.
Colin N. Dewey, Ph.D. (2006) Whole-Genome Alignments and Polytopes for Comparative Genomics. Assistant Professor, Departments of Computer Science, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Sourav Chatterji, Ph.D. (2006) Computational Analyses of Eukaryotic Gene Evolution. Postdoc, Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis (with Jonathan Eisen).
Kevin Chen, Ph.D. (2005) Three Variations on the Theme of Comparative Genomics: Metagenomics, Mitochondrial Gene Rearrangements and MicroRNAs (co-advisor: Satish Rao). Postdoc, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, NYU (with Nikolaus Rajewsky and Mark Siegal). Assistant Professor of Genetics, University of Rutgers (Fall '09).
Dan Levy, Ph.D. (2005), Applications of Graph Theory to Chromosome Rearrangements and Phylogenetics (co-advisor: Ray Sachs). Postdoc, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories (with Michael Wigler).
Eric Kuo, Ph.D. (2005), Combinatorics of Viterbi Sequences. Research Scientist, Numerica Corporation.

Former postdocs

Niko Beerenwinkel, Professor, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH, Zurich.
Sagi Snir, Senior Lecturer, Netanya College, Israel.
Mathias Drton, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago.
Ruriko Yoshida, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Kentucky.
Luis David Garcia-Puente, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Sam Houston State University.
Von Bing Yap, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University Singapore.
Marina Axelson-Fisk, Senior Researcher, Chalmers University of Technology, Gotheburg, Sweden.