Lab members (current)

Paul Scheet, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Epidemiology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Regular Member, GSBS
(Adjunct) UT School of Public Heatlh
Yihua Liu
Graduate student in Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, GSBS (2014 - present)
Yue-ming Chen
Graduate research assistant (2013 - present)
Fellow, Statistical Genetics of Addiction Training Program
Graduate student in Biostatistics, UT School of Public Health (2012 - present)
Academic Advisor: Peng Wei, Ph.D.
Yulun Liu
Graduate research assistant (2013 - present)
Graduate student in Biostatistics, UT SPH
Academic Advisor: Yong Chen, Ph.D.
Yasminka "Sasha" Jakubek, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow (2014 -- present), Training Program in Molecular Genetics of Cancer
Ph.D. Emory University (advisor: David Cutler), 2014
Aditya Deshpande, M.B.B.S.
Graduate Research Asst. (2014 -- present)
Graduate student in Epidemiology, UT SPH
Smruthy Sivakumar, M.S.
Graduate student in Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, GSBS (2014 - present)
Jing Huang, Ph.D. (almost!)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2015 -- present), joint with Yong Chen, Ph.D. (U Penn)
Ph.D. The Univ. of Texas School of Public Health (advisor: Ying Yuan), 2015 (almost!)
Jerry Fowler, Ph.D. (Rice University, Computer Science)
Senior (yet youthful) Research Programmer, OU Fan (2012 - present)

Lab members (past)

Selina Vattathil, Ph.D.
Graduate student in Human & Molecular Genetics, GSBS (2009 - 2014)
Dissertation: Utilizing Haplotypes for Sensitive SNP Array-based Discovery of Somatic Chromosomal Mutations
Currently a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Josh Akey, Ph.D., University of Washington
Anthony San Lucas, Ph.D.
Graduate student in Biostatistics, GSBS (2010 - 2014) (co-advised by Eduardo Vilar, MD, PhD)
Dissertation: Genomic Characterization of Polyps in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Patients and Identification of Candidate Chemopreventive Drugs
Currently a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Anirban Maitra, M.B.B.S., Dept. of Translational Molecular Pathology, MD Anderson
Rui Xia, M.S.
Graduate student in Biostatistics, UT School of Public Health (2010 - 2014)
Currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Medical School, University of Texas, Houston
Christina Hahn
Graduate student in Biostatistics, GSBS (2013 - 2014)
Lili Huang, M.P.H.
Statistician (2013 - 2015)
Michael Li, Summer student, Clements High School, (summer 2013)
Joint with Dr. Jerry Fowler, Ph.D.
Xiangjun Xiao, M.S.
Statistician (2009 - 2013)
Justin Wong, (Rotation) Graduate student (GSBS), Tutorial in winter 2011.
Hansjoerg Baurecht, Visiting graduate student from Munich, Germany (2010, Fall)

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(Mid Pleistocene)

Bye Xiao! We will miss you!


(Anthony, Christina, Paul, Xiao, Jerry, Yue-Ming, Selina, Rui)
(June 2013)