Chad Huff, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Ph.D., Biological Anthropology, University of Utah

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Ryan Bohlender, Ph.D. 
Department of Epidemiology
Ph.D., Biological Anthropology, University of Utah

Ryan Bohlender is a population geneticist, originally trained in anthropology at the University of Utah. His dissertation included a model of admixture between modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. Now, he is working to understand sources of heritable cancer risk. His interests include statistical genetics and software development.

Yao Yu, Ph.D. 
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Epidemiology
Ph.D., Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research interests include genetics and genomics studies, transcriptome studies with high-throughput data analysis methodology and application. Previous research studies were mainly focused on the analysis of high-throughput omics data, including developing algorithms and computation applications of NGS studies and evolutionary biology. Human transcriptome study is also one of the research interests, including coding and non-coding gene expression level study, and post-transcription regulation (i.e. RNA editing, trans-splicing). Currently, focusing on cancer studies to discover genetic basis of diseases (cancer: breast, melanoma, ovarian, colon) using association analysis tools on NGS data.