Ying Wang, PhD

Ying is a postdoctoral research fellow in Dr. Alicia Martin’s lab. She did her PhD in statistical/quantitative genetics at the University of Queensland. During her PhD, she worked on the application of genomic prediction methods in diverse ancestry populations and development of such methods to improve transferability of polygenic scores in trans-ancestry predictions. She has […]

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Kai Yuan, PhD

Kai Yuan is a postdoctoral fellow in the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute, advised by Dr. Hailiang Huang. He obtained his PhD in computational biology from the Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. During his PhD training, he worked on population genetics, especially for the admixed populations and developed several […]

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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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Yu Chen

Yu Chen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Dr. Hailiang Huang’s lab at ATGU and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Prior to joining the ATGU, Yu earned her Ph.D. in Genetics from Central South University, where her work focused on studying and comparing the genetic regulation of brain gene expression across different populations. […]

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