People

Now recruiting postdocs and trainees for our newly established lab at Columbia

Lab members, affiliates and collaborators.

Current

Shaun Purcell - Principal Investigator

Yu Luo - post-doctoral researcher

Nataliia Kozhemiako - instructor

Naihua Natalie Gong - research Track PGY2 resident

Tejas Karkera - bioinformatics specialist

Sera Pensoy - research assistant

Past

Previous members and affiliates of the Purcell lab:

Katie Swaden Lewis - Visiting Wellcome Trust Fellow

Alycia Bisson - Post-doctoral researcher

Senthil Palanivelu - Informatics specialist

Yining Wang - Data scientist (joint with Broad Institute)

Rob Law - Post-doctoral researcher (cognitive neuroscience)

Shyamal Agarwal - Data scientist

Alex Kent - Sleep technologist & research assistant

Veerle van der Klei (visiting student; currently medical student at Utrecht University)

Douglas Ruderfer ( instructor; currently new faculty at Vanderbilt)

Menachem Fromer ( research associate professor; currently at Verily )

Eli Stahl ( assistant professor )

Eimear Kenny ( assistant professor )

Elizabeth Webster ( associate bioinformatician; currently PhD student at MSSM )

Qingrun Zhang ( postdoctoral fellow )

Nadia Solovieff ( post-doc; currently research scientist with Novartis )

Sarah Bergen ( post-doc; currently assistant professor at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden )

Colm O'Dushlaine ( post-doc; currently research scientist at the Broad Institute )

Yan Meng ( post-doc; currently staff scientist at the Broad Institute )

Manuel Ferreira ( post-doc; currently faculty at Queensland Institute for Medical Research )

Phil Hyoun Lee ( post-doc; currently an Instructor at Massachusetts General Hospital )

Jennifer Stone ( post-doc; currently with Illumina Inc. )

Brett Thomas ( programmer; currently programmer at Massachusetts General Hospital )

Lori Thomas ( programmer/research assistant )

Kathe Todd-Brown ( programmer/research assistant; currently faculty at University of Florida )

Collaborations

We collaborate closely with other members of Harvard Medical School's Division of Sleep Medicine, including Dr. Susan Redline, an expert in the genetic epidemiology of sleep disorders and links to physical health, who directs the Programs in Sleep and Cardiovascular Medicine and Sleep Medicine Epidemiology. We also collaborate on a number of studies with Dr. Jen Pan and others at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute.