Carla Hammond

Carla provides administrative support to Benjamin Neale as well as the Neale Lab in their administrative and research efforts as part of a growing administrative team spanning 2 institutions, MGH and the Broad Institute. Carla has been working in ATGU since August of 2013. […]

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Dan Howrigan, PhD

Daniel oversees the SNP array and sequence analysis pipeline in the Neale lab, with a primary focus on furthering genetic discovery in complex psychiatric disease through collaborative partnerships and high-throughput data analysis. His post-doctoral research has been focused on deciphering the role of rare genetic variation in schizophrenia.  Daniel received his PhD in 2012 from […]

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Duncan Palmer, PhD

Duncan is a postdoctoral fellow in the Neale Lab. After working viral evolution – he studied the interaction between HIV and the CTL immune response – he switched countries and genome lengths, and began working on human genetics in the spring of 2016. He is currently working on methods to estimate genetic contributions to heritability of complex traits by […]

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Tim Poterba

Tim Poterba is  working a new stealth-mode startup to drive increased impact from genomic data in industry. Previously, he worked at the Broad Institute on the open-source Hail (https://hail.is) project to accelerate analysis of petabyte-scale genomic data, and was the tech lead for the Hail Query team building compilers / query optimizers / distributed algorithms […]

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Benjamin Neale, PhD

  Ben’s research and training focuses heavily on the development and application of statistical methodology with a focus on methods specifically for genetic analysis. Ben has a strong track record of conducting analyses for genetic data with a heavy focus on psychiatric illness, particularly ADHD and Autism, but also Tourette’s Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Schizophrenia and Eating Disorders. […]

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