People

Vidhu Choudhary, M.A. - Bioinformatics Programmer

Vidhu has joined the group in July, 2007 as an experienced bioinformatics programmer. Her work involves implementing various web tools based on the algorithms developed in the group.

Jonathan Dreyfuss, M.S. - Bioinformatics Analyst

Jonathan joined HPCGG in August, 2006 after finishing his M.S. degree in the department of statistics and operations research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works on applying various bioinformatics techniques to analyze expression and array CGH data.

Peter finished his biophysics PhD in George Church's lab at Harvard Medical School in 2005. His main area of interest is in chromatin modification and epigenetics.

Hyunsoo Kim, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow

Hyunsoo received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and was a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech before joining the group in 2007. He has extensive experience in machine learning and bioinformatics.

Dan O'Connell, B.S. - Doctoral student, BBS

Joint with Richard Maas, M.D./Ph.D., Professor of Medicine at HMS and Chief of Division of Genetis at BWH. Dan is interested in organogenesis, with the tooth as a model system. He is learning bioinformatics methods in this laboratory for analyzing his data.

Peter J. Park, Ph.D. - Principal Investigator

Peter studied applied mathematics at Harvard and Caltech. His doctoral thesis in 1999 was on numerical analysis of partial differential equations with Prof. Thomas Hou. Seeking a more interactive and rapidly evolving field, he did his postdoctoral fellowship in the Biostatistics Department at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was introduced to molecular biology and genomics. He then moved to Children's Hospital Boston in 2001 as an instructor at the Medical School and has been there since, becoming an assistant professor in 2006. In addition to research, he teaches a statistics course at the School of Public Health and serves as a guest lecturer in a number of courses. He is Associate Director of Bioinformatics at the Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics and a member of the Affiliated Faculty at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He is also a member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Center Center and a member of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) faculty, an interdepartmental PhD program at Harvard Medical School.

He frequently serves as a referee for journals, including Science, PNAS, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids Research, Genome Biology, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics, BMC Biology, Genomics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Biometrics, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, BioTechniques, Pacific Symposium for Biocomputing, Statistics in Medicine, Lifetime Data Analysis, Physiological Genomics, FEBS Letters, Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics, In Silico Biology, International Journal of Cancer, American Medical Informatics Association Symposium.

Shouyong Peng, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow

Shouyong finishd his physics PhD at Boston University in 2005. He is currently a joint postdoctoral fellow with the Kuroda Laboratory. His research is on ChIP-chip data analysis and a network description of biological systems.

Michael Tolstorukov, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow

Prior to joining the lab in 2007, Michael received his Ph.D. and was a faculty member at V. Karazin Kharkov National University, Kharkov, Ukraine. He is an expert in the biophysics of nucleosome positioning.

Julie Yoo, B.S. - MS/MBA Student

She has a degree in computer science and engineering (with a minor in biology) from MIT and is currently in the Biomedical Enterprise Program at the Sloan School/HST.

Biological Collaborators

Mitzi Kuroda, Ph.D. (website) - Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; HPCGG; HHMI

Mark Johnson, M.D./Ph.D., Rona Carroll, Ph.D. & Peter Black, M.D./Ph.D (website) - Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Steven A. Greenberg, M.D. (website) - Dept of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School

David Scadden, M.D. (website) - Co-Director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute; Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital

Robert Kingston, Ph.D. (website) - Chief, Dept of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Dept of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Jeannie Lee, M.D./Ph.D. (website) - Dept of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Dept of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Connie Cepko, Ph.D. (website) - Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Methodological Collaborators

Members of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program

Directed by Isaac S. Kohane, M.D./Ph.D., Lawrence J. Henderson Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences and Technology.

Sek Won ("Steve") Kong, M.D. - Instructor in Cardiology, Children's Hospital

Sek Won was originally trained in Psychiatry at Seoul National University. While doing his postdoctoral fellowship in brain imaging at McLean Hospital, he became interested in bioinformatics. He was a postdoctoral fellow in molecular medicine at Beth-Israel Hospital working with Seigo Izumo, was a senior computational biologist at the Bauer Center for Genomics at Harvard, and is currently working with the Pu laboratory in the Department of Cardiology at Children's Hospital and the Greenberg Laboratory at the Department of Neurology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. His expertise is in the analysis of Affymetrix arrays and has made methodological contributions in several areas of data analysis.

Lu Tian, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Simon Kasif, Ph.D. - Professor, Boston University

Previous Members of the Group

Weil Lai, B.S. - HPCGG Bioinformatics Analyst. Weil graduated from MIT in 2004 with a B.S. in chemical engineering and spent two years at the Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics as a Bioinformatics analyst before heading off to medical school. His main collaborations were with the Neurosurgery group at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Kuroda Laboratory at Harvard.

Hyun-Ju Lee, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow

Hyun-Ju joined the group in October, 2006 after finishing a Ph.D. in computational biology at the University of Southern California. She started her faculty position at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea in July, 2007.

Kyu-Baek Hwang, Ph.D. - visiting doctoral student from Seoul National University.

Richard Kim, B.S. - Harvard '02, HPCGG Bioinformatics Analyst, currently medical student at UCSF

Songzi Du - undergraduate student (MIT)

Cathy Ye - undergraduate student (MIT)

Allison Berke - undergraduate student (MIT)

Daon Ha - undergraduate student (MIT)

Fan Yang - undergraduate student (MIT)

MinJeong (Claire) Ahn - undergraduate student (MIT)

Christopher Palmer - undergraduate student (MIT)