Keles Research Group

News:

January’08

• Kevin Eng is one of the International Biometric Society – Eastern North American Region (ENAR) 2008 Distinguished Student Paper Award winners. He has been awarded an ENAR student travel award for his paper: “A linear mixed model for multi-species time course gene expression data” (co-authors S. Keles and G. Wahba). Kevin will present this work at the 2008 Spring Meeting of the ENAR.

October’07

• Pei-Fen Kuan won the second prize in the poster competition at First Midwest Symposium on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Here is Pei-Fen’s award winning poster.
• Kevin and Hyonho also presented at MSCBB. Here are their posters: Kevin’s mixed effects clustering model for multi-species gene expression data; Hyonho’s sparse partial least squares poster.
• Here are pictures from the symposium.

Announcements:

Postdoctoral position (posted on 8/13/07):

An NIH-funded post-doctoral position is immediately available in our group in the Departments of Statistics and of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at UW Madison to develop novel statistical and computational methods for studying transcription regulation by the use of TF ChIP-chip, chromatin accessibility, sequence, evolutionary conservation data.

Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in Statistics or Biostatistics. Applicants from related disciplines with strong interests in statistical genomics are also encouraged. Strong programming skills (e.g., R, C, C++, perl, java), good verbal and written communication skills are required.

Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and name and contact of three references to keles<at>stat<.>wisc<.>edu with subject line “Postdoctoral Position”.