Lab Members

        

Yufeng Shen, PhD

PI. CV

ys2411@columbia.edu

Developing and applying computational methods to study human genetics and diseases

 

Casey Overby, PhD

NLM postdoc fellow.

Pharmacogenomics. Genetics of drug adverse reactions; risk prediction.

 

Angad Singh

Research associate.

De novo assembly and variant calling from high-throughput sequencing; Cancer genomics

 

Nanfang Xu

Rotation PhD student in DBMI.

Cancer genomics, genome sequencing

 

Edwin Lin

Master student in biotechnology.

Cancer diagnosis, genome sequencing

 

Cathy Huang

Master student in Biostatistics

Statistical genetics

Samreen Zafer

Scientific Programmer at Genome Center.

Whole genome / exome sequencing for genetic studies. Algorithms to infer genetic variants.

 

William DeWitt

Scientific Programmer at Genome Center.

Genome assembly

Xiaoyun Sun

Scientific Programmer at Genome Center.

RNA-seq and systems biology

Open positions

Postdoctoral fellows

Please contact me for postdoc position queries.

Graduate students

Interested prospective students should contact me via e-mail. Graduate students may join the lab through two programs:

  1. C2B2 Graduate Program. The C2B2 program includes a 1-year core curriculum and 3 lab rotations.
  2. PhD or MD/PhD Program in Department of Biomedical Informatics.

Undergraduates or master students

If you are an undergraduate or master student interested in gaining research experience to prepare for graduate schools, please contact me directly to discuss possible projects. Students with good programming skills or mathematical background are particularly encouraged to apply.