Yogasudha Veturi
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Current Projects
Pharmacogenomics of statin therapy (POST)
Education
PhD Biostatistics
University of Alabama at Birmingham (Fall 2016)
MS Plant and Soil Sciences
University of Delaware (Summer 2012)
MS Statistics
North Carolina State University (Spring 2009
BSc (Hons) Statistics
Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi (Summer 2007)
Work Experience
Graduate research fellow
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (2012-2016)
Michigan State University (2016),
Statistician/Graduate research assistant
University of Delaware
2009-2012
Graduate teaching assistant
North Carolina State University
2007-2008
Graduate industrial trainee
Gilead Pharmaceuticals
2008-2009
Publications
For the list of my publications please visit Google Scholar.
Jason Miller
Post-Doctoral Fellow
A301 Richards Building
3700 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Current Projects
Analysis of multi-omics datasets from the Pharmacogenomics of Statin Therapy (POST) center.
Education
Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Fall 2016
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
B.S. in Lyman Briggs Biochemistry/Biotechnology, Summer 2008
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Work Experience
Undergraduate Research Assistant,
Rice Genomics Laboratory, 2007-2008
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Publications
For the list of my publications please visit Google Scholar.
Marta Byrska-Bishop
Post-Doctoral Fellow (Geisinger Health System)
Current Projects
Disease co-occurrence: identification of a genetic link between Electronic Health Record (EHR)-derived phenotypes that tend to co-occur in population more often than expected by random chance.
Education
PhD, Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2015
MS, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2009
BS, Biology
Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
2007
Publications
For the list of my publications please visit Google Scholar.
Dokyoon Kim
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pennsylvania State University
Current Projects
ATHENA
BioBin
Integrative analysis with multi-omics data
Education
Ph.D. Bioinformatics
Seoul National University
2013
B.S. Computer Science
Korea University
2006
Work Experience
Ph.D. Candidate & Researcher (PI: Ju Han Kim, M.D., Ph.D.)
Division of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Mar, 2006 – Feb, 2013
Visiting Researcher (PI: Hyunjung Shin, Ph.D.)
Department of Industrial Engineering
Ajou University, Suwon, Korea
Dec, 2009 – Aug, 2011
Intern (PI: Ju Han Kim, M.D., Ph.D.)
Division of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Jun, 2005 – Aug, 2005
Intern
Sun Microsystems, Colorado, USA
Jan, 2004 – Feb, 2004
Exchange Student
University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, USA
Aug, 2003 – Feb, 2004
Molly Hall
Post Doctoral Fellow with Dr. Jason Moore (University of Pennsylvania)
512 Wartik Laboratory
Pennsylvania State University
Current Projects
Gene-Environment Interactions
Gene-Gene Interactions
Environment-Wide Association Studies
Phenome-Wide Association Studies
Education
M.S. Neuroscience and Education
Columbia University
2011
B.S. Human Development
Cornell University
2005
Work Experience
Middle School Science Teacher
Teach For America
Bronx, NY
2005-2007
Middle School Science Teacher
Uncommon Schools, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
2007-2009
Publications
- Hall, M. A. et al. Biology-Driven Gene-Gene Interaction Analysis of Age-Related Cataract in the eMERGE Network. Genet. Epidemiol. 39, 376–84 (2015).
- Hall, M. A. et al. Detection of pleiotropy through a phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) of epidemiologic data as part of the Environmental Architecture for Genes Linked to Environment (EAGLE) Study. PLoS Genet. 10, (2014).
- Hall, M. A. et al. Environment-wide association study (EWAS) for type 2 diabetes in the Marshfield Personalized Medicine Research Project Biobank. Pac. Symp. Biocomput. 200–11 (2014).
- Hall, M.A. et al. Session Introduction: Characterizing the the importance of environmental exposures, interactions between the environment and genetic architecture, and genetic interactions. Pac. Symp. Biocomput. 2015.
- Pendergrass SA, Verma SS, Hall MA et al. (2013) Next-generation analysis of cataracts: determining knowledge driven gene-gene interactions using Biofilter, and gene-environment interactions using the PhenX Toolkit. Pac Symp Biocomput: 147-58.
- Ritchie MD, Verma SS, Hall MA et al., (2014) Electronic medical records and genomics (eMERGE) network exploration in cataract: Several new potential susceptibility loci. Molecular Vision: 20.
- Pendergrass SA, Verma A, Okula A, Hall MA, Crawford DC, Ritchie MD (2015) Phenome-wide association studies (PheWAS): Embracing complexity for discovery. Human Heredity 79:111- 123.
- De R, Verma SS, Drenos F, Holzinger ER, Holmes MV, Hall MA, et al. Dissecting the obesity disease landscape: identifying gene-gene interactions that are highly associated with Body Mass Index (submitted).
Conferences:
- Molly A. Hall, Scott M. Dudek, Robert Goodloe, Dana C. Crawford, Sarah A. Pendergrass, Peggy Pessig, Murray Brilliant, Catherine A. McCarty, Marylyn D. Ritchie. 2013. Environment-wide association study (EWAS) for type 2 diabetes in the Marshfield Personalized Medicine Research Project Biobank. Manuscript accepted for the 2014 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing journal and conference.
- Molly A. Hall, Shefali S. Verma, Emily R. Holzinger, Richard Berg, John Connolly, Dana C. Crawford, David R. Crosslin, Mariza de Andrade, Kimberly F. Doheny, Jonathan L. Haines, John B. Harley, Gail P. Jarvik, Terrie Kitchner, Helena Kuivaniemi, Eric B. Larson, Gerard Tromp, Sarah A. Pendergrass, Catherine A. McCarty, Marylyn D. Ritchie. 2013. Replication of gene-gene interaction models associated with cataracts in the eMERGE Network. Abstract presented as oral platform talk at the 2013 American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) Conference.
- M.A. Hall, A. Verma, K.D. Brown-Gentry, R. Goodloe, J. Boston, S.A. Pendergrass, D.C. Crawford, M.D. Ritchie. 2012. A Phenome-Wide Association Study (PheWAS) using multiple National Health and Nutritional Surveys (NHANES) to identify pleiotropy. Abstract Accepted for poster presentation at the 2012 American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) Conference.
- M.A. Hall, A. Verma, K.D. Brown-Gentry, R. Goodloe, J. Boston, S.A. Pendergrass, D.C. Crawford, M.D. Ritchie. 2012. Detection of Pleiotropy through a Phenome-Wide Association Study (PheWAS) in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES). Manuscript Accepted for talk at the 2012 Translational Biology Conference.
Scholarships, Awards & Fellowships
2015 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31), funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
2013 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2014 Travel Award, funded through the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health
2013 Paul M. Althouse Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
2012 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Programming for Biology Course Scholarship
2012 Genetic Analysis of Complex Human Disease Travel Scholarship, funded through the National Institutes of Health
2011 Braddock-Roberts Fellowship (Penn State University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)