Sarah (she/her) is a PhD student in Statistics at the University of Washington. Sarah's research interests include statistical methods and software to compare and visualize microbial phylogenies.
María (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Biostatistics at the University of Washington. María's research interests include statistical methods for the comparison of phylogenetic trees with nonidentical leaf sets.
Shirley (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Statistics at the University of Washington. Shirley's research interests include bias reduction and decontamination tools in microbiome sciences.
Ameer (he/his) is a PhD Candidate in Biostatistics at the University of Washington. Ameer's interests include deconvolution methods for microbial contamination, as well as spatial statistics and survey statistics. He also works with Dr. Daniela Witten and Dr. Jon Wakefield.
Grant Hopkins (he/his) is a PhD Candidate in Biostatistics at the University of Washington. Grant is working on optimal experimental designs for large-scale microbiome studies.
Pauline finished her PhD in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at UW, co-advised by Peter Rabinowitz and Amy Willis. Pauline developed methods for microbial pangenomics, and has a particular interest in human-animal-microbe interactions.
Last time we checked, Dr. Trinh was a Bioinformatician Epidemiologist at the Washington State Department of Health.
Bryan finished his MS in the Department of Statistics at UW in 2022, co-advised by Daniela Witten and Amy Willis. Bryan's research focused on statistical methods and software for microbial relative abundance.
Last time we checked, Bryan was a Senior Statistician at Medtronic
Jake finished his postdoctoral researcher appointment at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, jointly supervised by Amy Willis and Thea Whitman. Jake's research interests include propagating uncertainty from bioinformatic preprocessing through the microbiome analysis pipeline, and his past research projects have focused on the microbiome of bioreactors.
Last time we checked, Dr. Price worked at Stroud Water Research Center.
Cecilia finished her MS in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. Cecilia is researching statistical approaches to removing contamination in high throughput sequencing data, with a specific focus on amplicon sequencing datasets.
Last time we checked, Cecilia was a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto.
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