Principal Investigator
Lior Pachter
Current postdocs
Valerie Hower (NSF postdoc)
Alexander Schönhuth
Current graduate students
Nicolas Bray
Hélder Pedro (joint with Adam Arkin)
Rahul Satija (joint with Jotun Hein, University of Oxford)
Meromit Singer
Anne J. Shiu (joint with Bernd Sturmfels)
Cole Trapnell (joint with Steven Salzberg)
Visitors
Rahul Satija (February-March 2009)
Cole Trapnell (2008-2010)
Graduated students (also in 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.
Senior researcher, BioNanomatrix, Philadelphia
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.
Member, technical staff at Chai Labs.
Kevin Chen, Ph.D. (2005) Three Variations on the Theme of Comparative Genomics: Metagenomics, Mitochondrial Gene Rearrangements and MicroRNAs (co-advisor: Satish Rao).
Assistant Professor of Genetics, 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, Northrop Grumman.
Former postdocs
Robert Bradley
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biology, MIT (with Chris Burge), recipient of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellowship.
Radu Mihaescu
Trevor Bruen
Niko Beerenwinkel
Professor, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH, Zurich.
Sagi Snir
Assistant Professor, Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, Israel.
Mathias Drton
Associate 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.
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