Courses

Fabio will be teaching GEN 8900 “Introduction to Quantitative Genetics” again in Spring 2025.

News & Announcements

08-21-2022. Welcome to Yuxuan Sun! Yuxuan is a first-year PhD student from the BDSI program with background in complex trait genetics.

06-09-2024. The preprint on using lifestyle information in polygenic modeling of blood pressure traits is up on bioRxiv! This was truly a collaborative effort between our lab and Dr. Tiezzi at the University of Florence.

06-03-2024. The preprint on comparing methods for transcriptomic prediction led by Noah is up on bioRxiv. Well done Noah!

05-10-2024. The preprint describing an extension of mr.mash that requires only summary statistics is up on bioRxiv!

10-16-2023. Welcome to Dr. Khushi Goda! Khushi is a postdoctoral fellow, who comes with experience in quantitative genetics applied to breeding. In the lab, she will be using her knowledge to investigate issues in human complex trait genetics.

08-15-2023. Congratulations to Noah who officially transitioned from the Master program to the PhD program! He will perform his dissertation research in the lab.

07-07-2023. The mr.mash paper is out in PLoS Genetics!

11-23-2022. The preprint describing our new empirical Bayes approach to multivariate multiple regression (mr.mash) is up on bioRxiv!

09-01-2022. Good news! Our lab has been awarded an NIH MIRA R35 grant. As a result, multiple positions at all levels are available. Get in touch if interested!

08-29-2022. Welcome to Noah Klimkowski! Noah is a Masters student from the Genetics program looking to learn more about statistical analysis and computations.

03-30-2022. We are looking for a postdoc, jointly advised by Trudy Mackay! Please apply here or send an email for an informal inquiry about the position.

01-12-2022. Welcome to Kelly Coyne! Kelly is a rotation student from the BDSI program with a strong background in genetics, looking to learn more about statistical analysis and computations.

08-30-2021. Welcome to Kuntal Maiti! Kuntal is a rotation student from the BDSI program with experience in data science and machine learning.

08-18-2021. We are very excited to welcome Chunming Liu, the first graduate student in the lab! Chunming will work on integrative approaches to understand the genetic architecture of complex traits.

03-22-2021. We are looking for a postdoc! Please apply here or send an email for an informal inquiry about the position.

10-26-2020. Our latest work on using multiple types of data to predict phenotypes is available at G3!

09-17-2020. We are looking for graduate students! Please send an email if interested.

08-17-2020. The Morgante Lab goes live!

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