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Bogdan Pasaniuc develops statistical and computational methods to understand the genetic basis of disease, focusing on integrative genomics, heritability and population structure. Before UCLA, Bogdan was a postdoc at the Harvard School of Public Health and in the Program in Medical and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute in the group of Alkes Price. Prior to that, Bogdan completed a postdoc at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA. Bogdan obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Connecticut working in the lab of Ion Mandoiu and B.Sc. from the Faculty of Computer Science, “A.I. Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania in 2003. Recently updated resume.
Akintunde Akinkuolie
Cardiology fellow, STAR PhD track
Arjun Bhattacharya
Postdoc
Joint with Mike Gandal
Kristin Boulier
Cardiology fellow, STAR PhD track
Alex Flynn-Carroll
Graduate Student, Bioinformatics
Yi Ding
Graduate Student, Bioinformatics
Jonatan Hervoso
Graduate Student, Bioinformatics
Joint with Grace Xiao
Kangcheng Hou
Graduate Student, Bioinformatics
Gayane Hovhannisyan
Executive Assistant
Sandra Lapinska
Graduate Student, Bioinformatics
Xinzhe Li
Graduate Student, Bioinformatics
Rachel Mester
Graduate Student, Biomathematics
Ella Petter
Graduate Student, Computer Science
Joint with Noah Zaitlen
Helen Shang
Resident Physician, Internal Medicine
Vidhya Venkateswaran
Graduate Student, Oral Biology
Alumni
Yang Wu, PhD – Postdoc, 2023, currently an Assistant Professor at West China hospital, Sichuan University
Ruth Johnson – PhD, Computer Science, 2023, currently a Berkowitz Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School
Sergey Knyazev, PhD – Postdoc, 2023, currently at Altumint
Ziqi Xu – Undergraduate student, 2023
Kuan-Hung (Peter) Yeh – Undergraduate student, 2023
Tommer Schwarz – PhD, Bioinformatics, 2022
Kathryn S. Burch – PhD, Bioinformatics, 2021, currently an research scientist at Regeneron.
Yifei wang – Undergraduate student, 2021
Greta Tamkus – Medical student, 2021
Malika Kumar Freund – PhD, Human Genetics, 2020, currently an MS student in the Genetic Counseling Program at Stanford University.
Igor Mandric, PhD – Postdoc, 2020, currently at Illumina, Inc.
Arunabha Majumdar, PhD – Postdoc, 2020, currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad.
Rye Tran – Undergraduate student, 2020.
Jackie Staiger – Undergraduate student, 2020.
Yan Guo, PhD – Visiting scholar, 2018-2019, currently a Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University in China.
Annique Claringbould – Visiting PhD student, Summer 2019, currently a postdoc with Judith Zaugg and Lars Steinmetz at EMBL.
Claudia Giambartolomei, PhD – Postdoc, 2019, currently a Marie Curie Fellow in Genoa, Italy.
Robert Smith – Project Manager, 2018-2019.
Nicholas Mancuso, PhD – Postdoc, 2019, currently an Assistant Professor at USC. Visit the Mancuso Lab website.
Megan Major – MS, Bioinformatics, 2018, currently an Associate Data Scientist at BioFire Diagnostics.
Huwenbo Shi – PhD, Bioinformatics, 2018, currently a postdoc with Alkes Price at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Megan Roytman – PhD, Bioinformatics, 2018, currently a Software Engineer at BioDiscovery.
Steven Gazal, PhD – Visiting Postdoc, Summer 2018, starting as an Assistant Professor at USC.
Gleb Kichaev – PhD, Bioinformatics, 2018, currently a Data Scientist at Apple.
Valerie Arboleda, MD, PhD – Pathology Resident, 2017, currently an Assistant Professor at UCLA. Visit the Arboleda Lab website.
Pagé Goddard – BSc, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, 2017, currently a PhD student in Stephen Montgomery's group at Stanford.
Rob Brown – PhD, Bioinformatics, 2017, currently a postdoc with Eleazar Eskin and Sriram Sankarraman at UCLA.
Sasha Gusev, PhD – Visiting Postdoc, Summer 2015, currently an Assistant Professor at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Visit the Gusev Lab website.
Wen-Yun Yang – PhD, Computer Science, 2013, currently a Software Engineer at Facebook.
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