Group meeting [Sep.21.2007]

Last Friday, we held a research open house for PHD students and visitors. In the future, such format might be turned into a regular research club of some sort.

Today, two MA students joined our group meeting.

• Bo Qiao. A recent graduate from Tsinghua University.
• Chien Hsun Huang (sound). A statistical genetics researcher from Taiwan

Iuliana visited us today. We discussed the possibility of her visiting us monthly, supported by our newly funded NSF/NIGMS grant.

Dr. Jun Xie (associate professor from Purdue University) is visiting our department and would like to participate in our research for this semester. Welcome!

We discussed the three data sets that were granted to us from NCBI: genome association studies on major depression, type I diabetes, and ADHD. These three sets have very different data structure. We will study the background information of these studies in the coming week and will discuss how to analyze them during next meeting.

Major depression: Ding and Lo
Diabetes: Qiao and Huang
ADHD: Zheng and Xie

It is nearly unthinkable that we still have confusion over the meeting time. And we now decided that we will meet at 10:30 on Friday in Room 901, until further notice.