Stephan Ripke

Stephan is a key member of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC), a collaborative effort that involves 50 datasets from research groups from 17 countries. Stephan is responsible for performing the combined analysis of the raw genetic data from the Consortium members. To do this, he has created a computer pipeline that standardizes data, imputes missing values, […]

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Cotton Seed

Cotton Seed was a Senior Advisor to the Hail team at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Prior to joining the Broad, he did a PhD in Mathematics at Princeton University and spent over a decade building high-performance computing systems with a focus on advanced compiler technology at Connected Components Corp, Intel, and Reservoir Labs, […]

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Katherine Tashman

Kate Tashman is an Associate Computational Biologist with the Neale Lab. She is interested in studying the genetic effects on psychiatric illness as well as neurodevelopmental disorders. She received her B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Binghamton University in 2017. […]

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Patrick Turley, PhD

Patrick is an Instructor at ATGU and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He is advised by Dr. Benjamin Neale, researching statistical methods applied to topics in the intersection of economics and genetics. He is also a core researcher of the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium and an affiliated postdoc with the Behavioral and Health Genomics Center […]

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Sali Farhan

Sali Farhan completed her PhD in Biochemistry and Genetics at Robarts Research Institute at Western University in Canada. Her PhD research focused on identifying the genetic basis of Mendelian diseases and complex neurodegenerative diseases primarily amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia. Sali has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at ATGU since 2016 analyzing next generation […]

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Yen-Chen (Anne) Feng

Anne is a recent graduate from the program of statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and now a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Ben Neale at ATGU and Dr. Jordan Smoller from PNGU. Her doctoral research focused on developing and applying statistical methods to a range of human -omics data, […]

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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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Grace Tiao

Grace Tiao is the Associate Director for Computational Genomics in the Translational Genomics Group and leads a team of computational biologists developing efficient methods and pipelines to produce and analyze large-scale sequencing callsets, including the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD), the UK BioBank, and rare disease cohorts generated by the Broad’s Center for Mendelian Genomics. She […]

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