Cal Liao, PhD

Cal is a research fellow who joined the ATGU in March 2022, where he is co-advised by Drs. Benjamin Neale and Michael Talkowski. Cal completed a Ph.D. in Human Genetics from McGill University, focusing on identifying novel genetic and molecular insights for neuropsychiatric disorders. He is excited to investigate the genetics of bipolar disorder and […]

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Julia Sealock, PhD

Julia is a research fellow who joined ATGU in May 2022. She completed a PhD in Human Genetics from Vanderbilt University where she studied the relationship between depression polygenic scores and lab traits extracted from electronic health records. As a research fellow in the Neale lab, she will be working on rare variant analysis of […]

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Franjo Ivankovic, PhD

Franjo is a research fellow at ATGU and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. They are advised by Benjamin Neale and co-advised by Jeremiah Scharf. Franjo recently completed a Ph.D. in genetics and genomics at the University of Florida, where they studied the genetic architecture of neurodevelopmental disorders like Tourette syndrome and OCD. Their […]

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Lindo Nkambule

Lindo is an Associate Computational Biologist in the Neale Lab. He is interested in the analysis and visualization of genomic data. Lindo completed his Honours degree in Bioinformatics in 2019 and his project was on assessing the sensitivity and accuracy of various variant callers in African populations. […]

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Camelia Minica, PhD

Camelia is a computational scientist in the Neale lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Her work focuses on discovering new approaches to the diagnosis and pharmacological treatment of psychiatric disorders via large scale whole-genome sequencing analyses. She also works on advancing our understanding of the contribution of genetic environments in the risk for […]

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Andrew Marin

Andrew is an associate computational biologist at the Broad Institute and is interested in the growing computational pipelines used to run quality control and imputation on genotyping data. Andrew graduated from Bowdoin College in 2019 with a BA in Neuroscience. […]

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Rahul Gupta

Rahul is an MD-PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program, and is currently doing his PhD in Genetics and Genomics at Harvard. He completed his undergraduate work in Chemical Engineering and Biology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2016. Co-mentored by Dr. Ben Neale and Dr. Vamsi Mootha, Rahul’s work is focused […]

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Patrick Cummings

Patrick is an Associate Computational Biologist in the Neale lab, working primarily with the Hail Team. He is interested in developing tools that enable large-scale data analysis. He received his MS in Statistics from Oregon State University in 2020, and his BS in Applied Mathematics and Earth Sciences from Syracuse University in 2018. He previously […]

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Daniel Lazarev

Daniel is a Graduate Student in the Neale lab. He is developing a method based on the Maximum Entropy Principle to construct multilayer SNP-phenotype networks given GWAS data. He is generally excited about how simple yet powerful variational principles, such as Maximum Entropy, can be developed, extended and applied to problems in biology and medicine. […]

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