people

paul de bakker

Paul de Bakker is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Genetics at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Paul is also Director of the Genomics Program of the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research.

xiaoming (sherman) jia

Sherman is an MD student at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program. He's previously worked on the genome-wide association analysis in the International HIV Controllers Study, and now focusing on the development of HLA typing and MHC-wide sequencing using next-generation sequencing in close collaboration with the Genome Sequence Analysis group led by Mark DePristo at the Broad.

sara pulit

After joining us for the summer of 2008, Sara is back now as an Analyst/Programmer focusing on copy number variation and the data analysis of the 1000 Genomes Project. She is a Columbia graduate in Mathematics-Statistics.

paul mclaren

Paul is a postdoctoral fellow, joining our group from the University of Manitoba at Winnipeg, and working on the genetics of resistance to HIV infection in exposed uninfected cohorts as well as the International HIV Controllers Study.

runjun kumar

Runjun hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and is currently entering his final year of statistics and pathobiology at the University of Toronto. He's here for the summer of 2009, performing an analysis of the relative advantages/disadvantages of fixed or random effects models. He thinks Boston is too hot.

nikolaos patsopoulos

Nikolaos is a postdoctoral fellow. He has an M.D. degree from the University of Thessaly, Larissa Medical School and a Ph.D. in genetic epidemiology from the University of Ioannina Medical School. His main interests are statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, and meta-analysis methodology.

alumni

chanson brumme (2007-2009)

Chanson was a research associate in Bruce Walker's group at the Partners AIDS Research Center of Massachusetts General Hospital, leading the bioinformatics effort of the International HIV Controllers Study. He is now in a Ph.D. program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

jessica van setten (2009)

Jessica was a visiting student from the University of Utrecht.