former group members

Former graduate students

Ph.D. students
  • Simon Weon-Sang Ro (Ph.D. 2005, University of Alberta) Professor, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
  • Ligia Mateiu (Ph.D. 2006, University of Alberta) Bioinformatics Team Leader, VIB Department of Molecular Genetics, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium.
  • Karen Cranston (Ph.D. 2007, University of Alberta) Team Leader, CanDIG
  • Ying Wang (Ph.D. 2009, University of California, Davis)
  • Sneha Chakraborty (Ph.D. 2023, University of California, Davis) Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Anna Nagel (Ph.D. 2023, University of California, Davis) Postdoctoral Researcher, Johns Hopkins University Malaria Research Institute
Ph.D. students (co-supervisor)
  • Kanokkan Bumroongkit (Ph.D. 2008, Chiang Mai University, co-supervisor) Assistant Professor, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.
  • Chi Zhang (Ph.D. 2012, Chinese Academy of Sciences)(visiting CAS student 2010-2012) Professor, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing, China.
  • Rattanasak Wongkomonched (Ph.D. 2020, Chiang Mai University, co-supervisor)
  • Jiansi Gao (Ph.D. 2022, University of California, Davis, co-supervisor) Postdoctoral Researcher, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle.
M.S. students
  • Huiyu Sun (M.S., 2016, University of California Davis) Clinical Data Scientist, Gilead Inc.
  • Christina Fetterman (M.Sc. 2004, University of Alberta)
  • Bixia Ji (M.S. 2000 [incomplete], SUNY Stony Brook) Senior Software Engineer, Broadcom, Inc.

Former postdocs

  • XueJun Qin (Postdoc 1999-2001) Biostatistician, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University
  • Jeff Reeve (Postdoc 2000-2005) Team Leader, Computational Biology and Biostatistics, Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, University of Alberta
  • Greg Wilson (Postdoc 2001-2003) Wildlife Ecologist, Parks Canada
  • Adam Leache (Postdoc 2008-2010) Professor, Department of Biology, University of Washington
  • Badri Padhukasahasram (Postdoc 2010-2012) Bioinformatician (Oncology Diagnostics), Roche
  • Anna Guan (Postdoc 2011-2013) Project Manager, 23andMe