Current People in the Research Group

• Lingfei Cui, Ph.D. student in EEOB
  Lingfei is studying methodology for species tree inference.
  
  
• Helen Fan, Ph.D. student in Statistics
  Helen is studying methodology for species tree inference.
  
  
• David Spade, Ph.D. student in Statistics (co-advised with Prof. Radu Herbei, Statistics)
  David is studying MCMC on phylogenetic trees.
  
  
• Katie Thompson Ph.D. student in Statistics
  Katie is developing gene mapping methods for quantitative trait data.
  
  
• Hang Guo, Undergraduate (Mathematics major)
  
  
• Josh Walum, Undergraduate (Molecular Genetics and Mathematics double major)
  
  
• Erin Harvey, Undergraduate (Biology major)
  
  
• Shannon Kilkenny, Undergraduate (Biology major)
  
  
• Yingle Zhang, Undergraduate (Mathematics major)
  
  

Previous Group Members

• Paul Blischak, Undergraduate (Mathematics major)
  Paul is currently a Ph.D. student in EEOB.
  
  
  
• Theresa Bolaney, Undergraduate (Biology major)
  Theresa is currently working.
  
  
  
• Rasmus Hovmoller, Post-doctoral associate
  Rasmus studied the performance of different methods for inferring species-level phylogenies from multi-locus data.
  
  
  
• Travis Treseder, M.A.S. student in Statistics
  Travis is developing software to implement methods for inferring hybridization in the presence of coalescence.
  
  
  
• Tim NeCamp, Undergraduate (Math major)
  Tim is an Undergraduate Research Fellow in the RUMBA program. His project, joint with Susan Fassnacht and Prof. Andi Wolfe (EEOB at OSU), involved population genetics of the desert plant Penstemon albomarginatus.
  
  
  
• Susan Fassnacht, Undergraduate (Environmental Science major)
  Susan is an Undergraduate Research Fellow in the RUMBA program. Her project, joint with Tim NeCamp and Prof. Andi Wolfe (EEOB at OSU), involved population genetics of the desert plant Penstemon albomarginatus.
  
  
  
• Lori Hoffman, Ph.D. in Statistics, Summer 2010
  Dissertation Title: Disease Gene Mapping Under the Coalescent Model
  Current Position: Statistician at StatKing Consulting
  
  
  
• Helen Fan, M.S. in EEOB, Summer 2010
  Thesis title: Estimating Species Trees Using Approximate Bayesian Computation
  Current Position: Ph.D. student in Statistics at OSU.
  
  
  
• David Gerard, Undergraduate student (graduated with B.A. in Mathematics and Molecular Genetics, Spring 2010)
  Project Title: A New Phylogenetic Method to Detect Levels of Hybridization Between Species
  M.S. in Statistics (OSU, Spring 2012)
  Current Position: Graduate school at University of Washington
  
  
  
• 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: Statistician at Statistics Sweden