- 02.26.13 Emrah Kosten successfully defends his Ph.D!
- 06.15.12 SPA paper profiled in
Haaretz and Daily Bruin. - 06.01.12 Dan He successfully defends his Ph.D! Nathan Parrish completes his Masters degree! Congrats! Dan is now at IBM Research. Nathan is now a Ph.D. student at MIT. Buhm Han, also leaves to group to go to Harvard School of Public Health.
- 04.01.10 Our group was profiled in the 2010 Spring UCLA Engineer.
- 03.17.10 EMMAX paper published in Nature Genetics (news story).
- 12.01.09 Chun (Jimmie) Ye and Buhm Han both successfully defend their Ph.Ds! Congrats! Jimmie is now at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
- 6.04.09 Noah Zaitlen, Hyun Min Kang, and Sean O’Rourke all successfully defend their Ph.Ds! Congrats! Noah is now at the Harvard School of Public Health. Hyun is at the University of Michigan.
- 8.31.08 Ilya Shpitser leaves us to go to Harvard. Congrats Ilya!
- 8.15.08 Eleazar Eskin recieved Okawa Foundation Research Grant.
- 4.01.08 Ilya Shpitser and Eun Yong Kang join the group.
- 10.01.07 Chris Jones, Emrah Kostem and Olivera Grujic join the group.
- 7.29.07 “A sequence-based variation map of 8.27 million SNPs in inbred mouse strains” published in Nature. Full Article. Nature Editor’s Summary. Nature Editorial. Nature Genetics Editorial. NIH Press Release. Wired News. Nature Podcast.
- 7.9.07 Noah Zaitlen’s poster on “Leveraging the HapMap correlation structure in association studies” wins best poster award at Genomics of Common Disease meeting in Cambridge, UK.
- 07.01.06 Our group moved to UCLA. Article
- 1.13.06 Noah Zaitlen is awarded a Microsoft Research Fellowship. Article.
- 10.26.05 Results of our collaboration with National Library of Medicine on phasing the entire NCBI’s dbSNP is published in a special issue of Genome Research on Human Variation. UCSD Article.
- 6.17.05 Dafna Bitton, my student, participates in research project in Australia through PRIME program. UCSD Article.
- 2.22.05 Research Training in Bioinformatics course profiled in article about undergraduate research. UCSD Article.
- 2.17.05 “Whole-Genome Patterns of Common DNA Variation in Three Human Populations” is published on the cover of Science. UCSD Article. AAAS Release. USA Today . LA Times. NPR. MSNBC.
- 2.03.05 Robin Friedman, my student, wins Cal-IT2 Undergraduate Scholar Award. Article.
- 1.08.05 HAP project receives von Liebig funding. Article.