Alumni

Jason Aten
ResearchCasual Not Confounded Gene Networks: Inferring Acyclic And Non-Acyclic Gene Bayesian Networks In Mrna Expression Studies Using Recursive V-Structures, Genetic Variation, And Orthogonal Causal Anchors 
EducationBS, University of Washington Seattle, MS (2002), PHD (2008)
Current PositionRGM Advisors in Quantitative Finance
  
Kristin Ayers
ResearchMethods For Haplotype Construction And Their Applications 
EducationBS UC Los Angeles, MS (2002), PHD (2008)
Current PositionPostdoc Research Associate, Newcastle University
  
Lara Bauman
ResearchQTL Variance Component Models
EducationBA, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, MS (2000), PHD (2007)
Current PositionPostdoctoral Fellow at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, Texas
  
Gary Chen
ResearchAdvances In Linkage Analysis: Quantitative Trait Association, Genomic Structure Variation, And Application To Autism Endophenotypes 
EducationBS UC Irvine, PHD (2006)
Current PositionAssistant Professor, University of Southern California
  
Erica Childs
ResearchModels Of Maternal-Fetal Genotype Incompatibility 
EducationBS University of Maryland Baltimore County
Current PositionGraduate Student, UCLA
  
Jimmy Donkor
ResearchBiochemical And Physiological Characterization Of Lipin Family Members 
EducationBA California State University, PHD (2008)
  
Christopher Eller
ResearchRelationships Between Repetitive Sequence Environment And Mammalian Gene Expression 
EducationBA Washington University, PHD (2008)
Current PositionMedical Student, UCLA
  
Stephen Erickson
ResearchHierarchical Empirical Bayes Analysis of Genomic Microarrays
EducationBA, UC Berkeley, MS (2001), PHD (2006)
Current PositionAssistant Professor, University of Arkansas’ Medical Sciences Department of Pediatrics Section of Birth Defects Research
  
Melissa Gray
Current PositionGraduate Student, UCLA
  
Craig Herbold
EducationBS University of Southern California
Current PositionGraduate Student, UCLA
  
Brian Jordan
ResearchWNT4 Signaling in Sexual Development
EducationBS University of Notre Dame, PHD (2003), MD (2007)
Current PositionResident, Medicine/Pediatrics, Univ. of Michigan
  
Richard Llewellyn
ResearchAnnotating The Biological Process Of Proteins With Functional Linkages 
EducationBS Western Washington University, PHD (2008)
Current PositionPostdoc, UCLA Institute of Genomics and Proteomics
  
Rebecca Mar
ResearchFamillial Combined Hyperlipidemia: Genetic, Biochemical, And Animal Model Approaches
EducationBS, UC Riverside, PHD (2006)
Current PositionPostdoctoral Fellow at UCLA
  
Sonia Minassian
ResearchExtensions to the Maternal-Fetal Genotype (MFG) Incompatibility Test
EducationBS, Harvey Mudd College, MS (2000), PHD (2004)
Current PositionBiostatistician, Elan Pharmaceutical 
  
Calvin Pan
EducationBS UC Riverside, MS (2009)
  
Christopher Plaisier
EducationBS University of Utah,
Current PositionGraduate Student, UCLA
  
Angela Presson
ResearchStatistical Methods For Complex Disease Analysis 
EducationBS Cornell University, MS (2003), PHD (2007)
Current PositionAsst. Professor, Biostatistics, UCLA 
  
Anne Simonson
ResearchVisualizing the Mechanism of Decoding the Ribosome
EducationBA, Michigan State University, PHD (2005)
Current PositionConsulting Bioinformatician to cBio, Inc.
  
Richard Wang
ResearchFine mapping of genetic regualtory loci in mammals using radiation hybrids
EducationBS UC Los Angeles
Current PositionGraduate Student, UCLA
Publications
  • Ahn, S., Wang, R.T., Park, C.P., Lin, A., Leahy, R.M., Lange, K., Smith, D.J. Directed Gene Regulatory Networks in Mammals Using Expression and Comparative Genomic Hybridization Microarray Data from Radiation Hybrids. In submission.
  • Park, C.P., Ahn, S., Bloom, J.S., Lin, A., Wang, R.T., Wu, T., Sekar, A., Khan, A.H., Farr, C.J., Lusis, A.J., Leahy, R.M., Lange, K., Smith, D.J. Fine mapping of regulatory loci for mammalian gene expression using radiation hybrids. Nature Genetics. April, 2008: 40: 421-429.
Courses takenStatistics 100A, Path255 Mapping the Human Genome,HG236A/B Advanced Human Genetics, HG244 Genomic Technologies, CM260 Algorithms in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, CM224 Computational Genetics, CS279 Current Topics in Bioinformatics