Lab Members

The Pritchard lab (08/2009). From left to right: Jean-Baptiste, Katelyn, Jack, Everlyne, Jonathan, Daniel, Mike, Jordana, Roger, and Joe; Ying absent.

• Graham McVicker [May 2010-- ]
• Anil Raj [September 2011-- ]
• Stoyan Georgiev [September 2011-- ]
• Shyam Gopalakrishnan [September 2011-- ; joint with A Palmer]
• Zia Khan [September 2011-- ; joint with Y Gilad]
• Allegra Petti [February 2012-- ; (res. asst. prof.), joint with Y Gilad]
• Yair Field [September 2012-- ]
• Xun Lan [September 2012-- ]

• Bryce van de Geijn [September 2011-- ]
• Paul Grabowski [November 2011-- ; joint with J Borevitz]
• Carolyn Jumper [September 2012-- ]
• Michael Turchin [September 2012-- ; joint with M Stephens]

• Katelyn Michelini [May 2009-- ]
• Marsha Myrthil [August 2010-- ]

• Samantha Thomas (MSTP rotation; winter 2013)
• Bryan Pavlovic (grad student rotation; winter 2013)

Former Lab Members
Pritchard lab photo (10/2005)

Postdocs:

• Jeff Wall [July 2002 - June 2003] Now Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco
   
• Giovanni Montana [April 2002 -- March 2004] Now Senior Lecture (equivalent of associate professor), Imperial College London
   
• Sebastian Zollner [December 2001--July 2005] Now Associate Professor, University of Michigan


• Graham Coop [November 2004--August 2008] Now Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
 
• Jean-Baptiste Veyrieras [November 2006--October 2007/Consultant until 2011] Now Group Leader at bioMerieux.
  
 
• Jordana Bell [February 2008--November 2009] Now Wellcome Trust Fellow, University of Oxford.
   
• Ying Wang [March 2009--May 2011] Now junior faculty at Beijing Institute of Genomics.
 
• Páll Melsted [October 2009--July 2011] Now assistant professor University of Iceland.
   
• Daniel Gaffney [September 2008--July 2011] Now junior group leader at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
 
• Roger Pique-Regi [March 2009--August 2012] Now assistant professor at Wayne State University.

• William Wen [November 2001 -- September 2007]. William played a key role in many of the lab's projects over a 6-year span. He developed the popular user interface for the structure software package. Went on to a Ph.D Statistics with Matthew Stephens; now assistant professor at the University of Michigan (start 9/2011).


• Mike Trienis [September 2008 -- September 2009].

• Ben Voight [Autumn 2002 -- Spring 2006; joint with N. Cox, PhD in Human Genetics]. Went on to a postdoc with David Altshuler/Mark Daly, Broad Institute. Thesis: Approaching human genetics from a population based paradigm. Awarded "best thesis in Biological Sciences Division" (2006). Now assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania (start 9/2011)

• Dan Davison [January 2005 -- August 2006; joint with S. Hackett; PhD from Committee on Evolutionary Biology]. Went on to a postdoc with Peter Donnelly, University of Oxford. Thesis on statistical inference of population structure and history based on genetic data.

• Don Conrad [Spring 2003 -- Summer 2007; PhD in Human Genetics] Went on to a postdoc with Matthew Hurles, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; moving to faculty position at Wash. U. Thesis: Measurement and analysis of copy number variation in the human genome. Now assistant professor at Washington University of St. Louis.

• Su Yeon Kim [September 2004 -- March 2008; joint with P. McCullagh, PhD in Statistics] Now a postdoc with Terry Speed, Berkeley. Thesis: Evolution of conserved noncoding elements in mammals.

• Sridhar Kudaravalli [September 2004 -- August 2008] Thesis: Recent positive selection in the human genome. Returned to India to work in family business.

• Joe Pickrell [September 2007-- September 2011]. Thesis on population genetics and human expression. Now a postdoc in David Reich's lab, Harvard Med School

• Jack Degner [September 2008-- August 2012]. Thesis on genetic variation and gene regulation. Now a postdoc with Eileen Furlong, EMBL

Masters' Students:

• Melissa Hubisz [September 2006--2008; Master's degree in human genetics] Now working with Adam Siepel at Cornell.

• Andy Dahl [May 2011-- June 2012; BS and MS in Statistics] Now doing a DPhil at Oxford.

Lab Technicians:

• Everlyne Nkadori [September 2008--June 2010; now in Medical school, U Wisconsin]
• Sherryl De Leon [January 2010--August 2010; now in Master's Program, Boston University]
• Bryan Pavlovic [July 2010--August 2012; now in PhD program, UChicago]
• Noah Lewellen [August 2010--August 2012; law school?]

Former visitors:

• Sarah Hansoul [visiting postdoc from University of Liège, Belgium, spring 2006]

• Laura Scott [Visiting faculty from U. Michigan, January -- June 2010]

Student rotations

• Ben Voight [grad student rotation, summer 2002]
• Don Conrad [grad student rotation, winter 2003]
• Sridhar Kudaravalli [grad student rotation, summer 2004]
• Melissa Hubisz [grad student rotation, summer 2006]
• Joe Pickrell [grad student rotation, summer 2007]
• Jack Degner [grad student rotation, summer 2008]
• Wynn Meyer [grad student rotation, summer 2008]
• Imge Hulur [grad student rotation, winter 2010]
• Bryce van der Geijn [grad student rotation, summer 2010]
• John Blischak [grad student rotation, summer 2011]
• David Pritchard [visiting Statistics student, summer 2011]
• Nick Banovich [grad student rotation, summer 2012]
• Carolyn Jumper [grad student rotation, summer 2012]
• Michael Turchin [grad student rotation, summer 2012]
• Sarah Urbut [med student project, summer 2012]