Jungkyun Seo will join the Palmer Lab in January!
He recently completed his M.S. in Statistics at the University of Chicago. He also worked as a Research Assistant in Nancy Cox’s lab, where he analyzed large sets of genomic data for complex trait associations and discovered his interest in genetics. He now brings his excellent computational skills to the Palmer Lab to gain further experience while applying to graduate programs.
April Williams has also accepted a post-doc position and will join the Palmer Lab in Spring 2015! She is currently finishing her PhD in Coleen Murphy’s lab at Princeton University. Her dissertation is titled “Transcriptional Profiling of Dissociated Adult Caenorhabditis elegans Tissues”.
Amanda Barkley-Levenson has accepted a post-doc position and will join the Palmer Lab in Spring 2015! She is currently finishing her PhD in John Crabbe’s lab at the Oregon Health & Sciences University. Her dissertation is titled “The role of neuropeptide Y in binge-like drinking in mice”.
Dr. Jianjun Gao has joined the lab! He will be an instrumental part of the P50 grant, where he will use his impressive background in biostatistics to develop novel and efficient methods of analyzing complex genotype and behavioral phenotype data. Dr. Gao obtained his PhD from the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences – Chinese Academy of Sciences, was an Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. He brings over a decade of computational experience to the project
Dr. Peter Carbonetto accepts a position at www.Ancestory.com
Dr. Carbonetto spent a year in the Palmer lab during which time he contributed to several projects that are only now being published.
Emily will start her MPH at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in NYC this fall!
Camila will start her PhD in Neuroscience at the Sackler School for Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University in Boston this fall!
Alex Gileta, a second year human genetics graduate student, has decided to join the lab. His initial project will focus on a GWAS study of almost 3000 genetically heterogeneous rats, phenotyped for incentive salience at the University of Michigan by Shelly Flagel and Terry Robinson, and genotyped by reduced representation sequencing.
