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Noah A Rosenberg
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Last modified 8-17-2012

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Past lab news

  • 12-28-2011 — Two papers from the lab investigate properties of human haplotype variation. Former postdoc Paul Scheet and his student Anthony San Lucas have developed Haploscope, a visualization tool for examining haplotypes in populations (Genet Epidemiol 36: 17-21). Graduate student Lucy Huang, former postdoc Mattias Jakobsson, postdoc Trevor Pemberton and collaborators have studied patterns of haplotype variation in African populations, interpreting them in light of models of human evolution and investigating their implications for imputation-based association studies of disease (Genet Epidemiol 35: 766-780).

  • 12-20-2011 — A paper from the lab has appeared on the properties of ranked gene trees conditional on species trees (Math Biosci 235: 45-55). In contrast to previous work from the lab on gene trees and species trees, this study takes into consideration not only the gene tree topology, but also the sequences of events involved in producing gene trees. The project is a collaboration with former postdoc James Degnan and Tanja Stadler.

  • 12-17-2011 — Postdoc Paul Verdu's paper on a mathematical model of admixture has appeared in Genetics. This work uses a mechanistic evolutionary model to examine the properties of admixture predicted for an admixed population, as a function of parameters that describe the way in which admixture takes place over time.

  • 10-13-2011 — Three recent papers from the lab provide new developments in population-genetic theory. Zach Szpiech has investigated the properties of private alleles at microsatellite loci in a two-population model (Theor Pop Biol 80: 100-113). Simina Boca has evaluated population divergence measures involving admixed populations in a model of admixture between two source groups (Theor Pop Biol 80: 208-216). Mike DeGiorgio and James Degnan have analyzed gene genealogies in a model designed for considering human migrations out of Africa (Genetics 189: 579-593).

  • 10-11-2011 — Work from the lab on human genetic variation and genome-wide association studies is featured in the October 2011 cover story of Genome Technology. [Genome Technology article]

  • 9-27-2011 — Graduate student Lucy Huang successfully defended her PhD dissertation in bioinformatics on "Genotype imputation in worldwide human populations: empirical and theoretical approaches." Lucy's thesis studies genotype imputation accuracy in diverse human populations, including African populations, as a function of different ways of selecting imputation reference panels; it also considers investigations of sample-size inflation for maintaining power in imputation studies, and coalescent models for genotype imputation. Congrats Lucy!

  • 9-22-2011 — "A test of the influence of continental axes of orientation on patterns of human gene flow" by Sohini Ramachandran and Noah Rosenberg has appeared online in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. This paper provides a test on the basis of genetics of Jared Diamond's hypothesis in Guns, Germs, and Steel that differences in contintental orientation contributed to differences in the speed of technological diffusion in Eurasia and the Americas. [Abstract] [PDF] [Science news story] [Discovery News story] [Scientific American news story] [Brown Daily Herald news story]

  • 8-5-2011 — Graduate student Chaolong Wang has been awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Research Fellowship. The fellowship provides support to international students in the third to fifth years of their PhD work. Congrats Chaolong! [HHMI press release]

  • 7-1-2011 — The Rosenberg Lab has moved from the University of Michigan to Stanford University!

  • 4-25-2011 — Graduate student Mike DeGiorgio successfully defended his PhD dissertation in bioinformatics on "Genetic variation and modern human origins." Mike's thesis includes investigations of models of human origins on the basis of simulations and analytical summary statistics; mathematical work on the estimation of heterozygosity in cases in which samples contain related individuals; and development of phylogenetic methods for inferring species trees in the setting in which gene trees are discordant. Mike will be joining the lab of Rasmus Nielsen at the University of California, Berkeley, supported by an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology. Congrats Mike!

  • 4-7-2011 — Graduate student Chaolong Wang has been awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship from the Rackham Graduate School. The fellowship provides a year of support to graduate students nearing the conclusion of their PhD work.

  • 2-11-2011 — This month's cover of the American Journal of Human Genetics is inspired by the work of Mike DeGiorgio and Ivana Jankovic on estimating heterozygosity in samples with relatives, published in Genetics last December. [AJHG, February 2011]

  • 12-3-2010 — Graduate student Chaolong Wang has been named a winner of a Delill Nasser travel award from the Genetics Society of America. Chaolong will use the award to attend the 12th International Congress of Human Genetics, which will be held in Montreal in October 2011. Congrats Chaolong! [GSA Reporter news story]

  • 10-7-2010 — The work of postdoc Trevor Pemberton et al. on identifying unexpected close relatives in the newly reported individuals from Phase 3 of the HapMap project has been published in the American Journal of Human Genetics. Trevor's paper will be informative for researchers working closely with the HapMap 3 samples who require knowledge of relatedness in their analyses. [Genome Technology news story]

  • 9-20-2010 — Graduate student Mike DeGiorgio is one of two recipients of this year's Program in Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research. Congratulations Mike!

  • 9-17-2010 — Graduate student Mike DeGiorgio and postdoc Erkan Buzbas will be speaking about their work at the upcoming meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Washington, DC. Mike will speak about coalescence time distributions in a serial founder model of human evolutionary history, and his trip is sponsored by a FASEB Minority Access to Research Careers travel award. Erkan will speak about balancing selection on human immune system genes, with travel support from a Delill Nasser travel award from the Genetics Society of America. Graduate students Lucy Huang, Ethan Jewett, Zach Szpiech, and Chaolong Wang, as well as postdocs Trevor Pemberton and Paul Verdu, will be presenting posters at the meeting.

  • 7-28-2010 — Ivana Jankovic's work on genetic diversity in the Yellowstone wolves has been reported in Molecular Ecology. Ivana has found that genetic diversity in the reintroduced population is relatively stable, supporting field observations that the wolves are effective at avoiding inbreeding.

  • 6-28-2010 — Graduate students Mike DeGiorgio, Ethan Jewett, and Zach Szpiech have been awarded fellowships from the University of Michigan Genome Science Training Program. The fellowships provide 1-2 years of support for graduate training.

  • 5-19-2010 — Postdoc Trevor Pemberton was awarded a University of Michigan Center for Genetics in Health and Medicine postdoctoral fellowship. The fellowship will support Trevor's work on genomic patterns of homozygosity in worldwide human populations.

  • 5-1-2010 — Undergraduate Ivana Jankovic will be leaving for the University of California, Los Angeles to begin her MD/PhD. Congrats Ivana!

  • 4-7-2010 — Graduate student Lucy Huang has been awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship from the Rackham Graduate School. The fellowship provides a year of support to graduate students nearing the conclusion of their PhD work.

  • 1-27-2010 — Chaolong Wang et al. have developed an approach for quantitatively comparing the similarity of statistical maps of population-genetic variation with geographic maps of sampling variation. The paper is available here.

  • 12-17-2009 — In collaboration with Sean Morrison's group, the lab has conducted a study that finds that the most widely used human embryonic stem cell lines derive from donors with European ancestry. The limited population diversity in widely used lines has important implications for ongoing work on human embryonic stem cells. [UM news release] [UPI news story]

  • 10-20-2008 — ADZE is available for download. This program examines alleles private to combinations of populations, correcting for sample size differences across populations. A description of ADZE is reported in Bioinformatics 24: 2498-2504 (2008).

  • 2-26-2008 — "Genotype, haplotype, and copy-number variation in worldwide human populations" has appeared in Nature. This work was featured in several news stories.
    [Washington Post]

  • 12-3-2007 — "Genetic variation and population structure in Native Americans" is now available online in PLoS Genetics. This work was featured in Science News.

  • 10-10-2007 — CLUMPP version 1.1.1 is now available for download. A description of CLUMPP is reported in Bioinformatics 23: 1801-1806 (2007).

  • 6-28-2007 — distruct version 1.1 is now available for download. The new version includes color schemes from ColorBrewer.

    A description of distruct appears in Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 137-138 (2004).