BRC Ph.D. Graduates

See also our Master's Degree graduates.

2007

Sang Chul Choi: Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics
(Advisor: Jeff Thorne)
Ren-Hua Chung: Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics
Li Li: Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics
(Advisor: Steffen Heber)
Jessica Maia: Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics
(Advisor: Zhao-Bang Zeng)
Hao Mei: Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics
Li Zhang: Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics

2006

Jason Baucom: Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics
Gary Beecham, Jr.: Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics
(Advisor: Bruce Weir)
Raymond Gao: Ph.D. Student, Bioinformatics
(Advisor: Dahlia Nielsen, Bruce Weir)
Frank Mannino: Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics
(Advisor: Spencer Muse)
Joshua Starmer: Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics
Errol Strain: Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics
(Advisor: Spencer Muse)
Jiaye Yu: Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics
(Advisor: Jeff Thorne)
Jieping Zhao: Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics
(Advisor: William Atchley)
Wei Zou: Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics

2005

Pierre Bushel (Bioinformatics, Genetics): Bioinformatics Manager, NIEHS National Center for Toxicogenomics Microarray Group
Thesis: Clustering of mixed data types with application to toxicogenomics. (Advisor: Greg Gibson)
Andrew Dellinger: Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics
(Advisor: William Atchley)
Wen-Ping Hsieh (Bioinformatics): Assistant Professor, Institute of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Thesis: Analysis of gene expression profiles with linear mixed models. (Advisor: Greg Gibson)

2004

Sheng Feng (Statistics): Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Washington University.
Thesis: Statistical studies of genomic data. (Advisor: Zhao-Bang Zeng)
Andrea Johnson (Genetics): Biostatistician, Roche Molecular Systems.
Thesis: Estimation and sampling properties of gene diversity, heterozygosity and Fst. (Advisor: Weir)
Jian Li (Genetics): Post-doctoral research associate, Cornell University
Thesis: Development of multiple interval mapping for mapping QTL in ordinal traits. (Advisor: Zhao-Bang Zeng)
Li Li (Bioinformatics): Principal Scientist, GSK Genetic Data Sciences.
Thesis: Disease gene mapping in general pedigrees. (Advisor: Bruce Weir)
Elizabeth H. Scholl (Biomathematics): Senior Bioinformatics Analyst, Center for the Biology of Nematode Parasitism, NCSU.
Thesis: Molecular evolution and horizontal gene transfer in plant parasitic nematodes (Advisor: Thorne, Bird)
Xiang Yu (Bioinformatics): Biometrician, Merck & Co.
Thesis: Statistical methods for the analysis of genetic marker and mocroarray data. (Advisor: Weir, Nielsen)

2003

Hua Li (Forestry, Bioinformatics): Thesis: Major gene detection for fusiform rust resistance using segregation analysis and linkage analysis in loblolly pine. (Advisor: Bailian Li, Amerson, Weir)
Kejun Liu (Bioinformatics): Thesis: Software and methods for analyzing molecular genetic marker data. (Advisor: Spencer Muse)
Zhaoling Meng (Bioinformatics): Thesis: Statistical topics in disease gene mapping. (Advisor: Meg Ehm, Bruce Weir)
Doug Robinson (Bioinformatics): Thesis: Three Dimensional Realistic Evolution (modeling protein evolution with dependence among codons due to tertiary structure) (Advisor: Jeff Thorne)
Liling Warren (Bioinformatics): Thesis: Probe design and data analysis for gene expression microarrays. (Advisor: Ben-Hui Liu)

2002

Tzu-Ming Chu (Statistics): Thesis: Statistical nonparametric and linear mixed model analyses of oligonucleotide DNA chips. (Advisor: Weir)
Wenlei Liu (Bioinformatics): Thesis: Development of linkage and association methods to map disease genes. (Advisor: Weir)
Jun Lu (Bioinformatics): Thesis: Analysis of microarray data and DNA regulatory elements prediction. (Advisor: Muse)

2001

Shu-Pang Huang (Statistics): Thesis: Robust methods for estimating allele frequencies. (Advisor: Weir)
Tao Wang (Biomathematics): Thesis: Modeling and inferring quantitative trait loci using linkage disequilibrium in natural populations. (Advisor: Zeng)

BRC Ph.D. Graduates

Master's Degree Graduates