Current People in the Research Group

• Lori Hoffman, Ph.D. student in Statistics
  
  Lori is studying coalescent-based methods for disease gene mapping in case-control data.
  
  
  
• Helen Fan, M.S. student in EEOB
  
  Helen is studying methods for estimating species-level phylogenies using samples of gene trees using Approximate Bayesian Computation.
  
  
  
• David Gerard, Undergraduate (double major in Math and Molecular Genetics)
  
  David is an Undergraduate Research Fellow in the RUMBA program. His project involves the study of hybridization in North American ratsnakes and rattlesnakes, in collaboration with Dr. Lisle Gibbs.

POST-DOC POSITION AVAILABLE: I currently have a two-year postdoctoral position available for a student interested in statistical phylogenetics. Please contact me for more information.

Previous Group Members

• Chen Meng, Ph.D. in Statistics (at the University of New Mexico), Fall 2008
  Dissertation Title: Statistical Models for Detecting Hybridization in a Phylogenetic Framework
  Current Position: Statistician at Monsanto
  
  
  
• Jennifer Bryant, M.S. in Statistics (at the University of New Mexico), Summer 2005
  Thesis title: Analysis of Protein Interaction Data for DNA Damage Sensitivity Genes
  in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  Current position: Biostatistician at the University of New Mexico medical school.
  
  
  
• James Degnan, Ph.D. in Statistics (at the University of New Mexico), Spring 2005
  Dissertation title: Gene Tree Distributions Under the Coalescent Process
  Current position: Faculty in Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Canterbury.
  
  
  
• Lin Pan, M.S. in Statistics (at the University of New Mexico), Fall 2003
  Thesis title: Detecting QTL for Pulmonary Immune Response of Mice
  Current position: Biostatistician, Biostatistics Research and Informatics, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University
  
  
  
• Guy Brock, Ph.D. in Statistics (at the University of New Mexico), Summer 2003
  Dissertation title: Models for Detecting Gene Regulatory Networks from Microarray Data
  Current position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at the University of Louisville
  
  
  
• Anna Karin Kristina Strandberg, M.S. in Statistics (at the University of New Mexico), Spring 2003
  Thesis title: Estimating the Transition Bias From DNA Sequences
  Current position: professional skier