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Jurg Ott's former and current scientific associates

FORMER STUDENTS (mostly PhD students)

Dates Name Graduating at
1987-1993 Joseph D. Terwilliger Dept. of Genetics & Development, Columbia University
1989-1994 Suzanne M. Leal Dept. of Epidemiology, Columbia University
1991-1996 Yin Yao Dept. of Genetics & Development, Columbia University
1992-1993 Cathy Fann Div of Biostatistics, University of Iowa
1993-1997 Victoria Haghigi Dept. of Genetics & Development, Columbia University
1993-2000 Paul R. Lucek MD-PhD program, Columbia University
1994-2000 Harald Goring Dept. of Genetics & Development, Columbia University
2000-2003 Anja Wille Rockefeller University
2000-2005 Andrew Dewan Rockefeller University
2000-2002 Daniela Markovic Dept. of Genetics & Development, Columbia University
2001-2006 Mark Levenstien Rockefeller University
2007-2010 Qingrun Zhang Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2008-2011 Dandan Sun Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2008-2011 Fang Liang Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2008-2011 Zhe Liu Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2009-2011 Yuanyuan Shen Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS/ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

(some names may be listed twice when they were both my students and stayed on as postdocs or Assistant Professors)

Dates Name Coming from
1987-1989 Lodewijk A. Sandkuyl, MD The Netherlands
1988-1994 Thomas Lehner, PhD Vienna, Austria
1989-1990 Daniel Weeks, PhD UCLA, Los Angeles
1990-1994 Chantal Mérette, PhD Québec, Canada
1992-1998 Marcella Devoto, PhD Genoa, Italy
1993-1996 Joseph D. Terwilliger, PhD New York
1993-1996 Cathy Fann, PhD Iowa City
1994-2000 Tara Cox Matise, PhD Pittsburgh
1994-1997 Valeria Brancolini, PhD Milan, Italy
1995-2002 Suzanne Leal, PhD New York
1995-2002 Wential Li, PhD Cold Spring Harbor
1996-1997 Shan Du, PhD Cornell U, New York
1997-1999 Hank Juo, PhD Johns Hopkins U, Baltimore
1997-1999 Ajita Bhat, PhD U of Georgia, Athens
1997-2003 Thomas Lehner, PhD MPH New York
1997-2005 Derek Gordon, PhD Cold Spring Harbor
1998-1999 Simon Heath, PhD UofW Seattle
1998-2000 Dale Nyholt, PhD U of Queensland, Australia
1998-2003 Jacek Majewski, PhD Wesleyan U, Connecticut
1999-2003 Josephine Hoh, PhD Columbia U, New York
2000-2002 Xin Liu, PhD Columbia U, New York
2000-2004 Yaning Yang, PhD Rutgers U, New Jersey
2001-2002 Ayse Ulgen, PhD SUNY at Stony Brook, New York
2002-2007 Sandra Barral, PhD Spain
2003-2009 Lilia Iakoucheva, PhD Washington State U
2004-2006 Robert Klein, PhD Washington U, St. Louis
2004-2008 Fei Ji, PhD SUNY at Stony Brook, New York
2005-present Sara Hamon, PhD U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2006-2009 Haiyan Xu, PhD Columbia U, New York
2006-2008 Dawei Li, PhD Shanghai Jiao Tong U
2007-2008 Douglas Londono, PhD Case Western Reserve U, Cleveland
2007-2012 Chunsheng He, PhD Rutgers U, New Jersey
2007-2009 Abigail Matthews, PhD Harvard U, Boston

VISITING STUDENTS and FACULTY MEMBERS

Dates Name Visiting in Visiting from/as
2001 Michael Nothnagel New York graduate student at Humboldt University, Berlin
2002 Bryan Mowry, MD New York sabbatical from U of Queensland, Australia
2004 Xiong Guo, MD New York Xi'an Jiao Tong U, China
2007-2009 Min Ki Yoon New York The Netherlands
2008 Sherin Shaaban, MD Beijing Tokyo, Japan
2008-2009 Gao Wang Beijing undergraduate student at Forestry U, Beijing
2008-2009 Wanwan Tang New York graduate student at Tsinghua U, Beijing
2009 Xu Shu Beijing undergraduate student at Beijing Normal U
2010-2011 Magdalena Dorn Beijing graduate student at Hochschule Ulm, Germany
2011-present Chen Suo Beijing graduate student at Karolinska U, Sweden
2012 Busra Angin Beijing undergraduate student at Bilkent U, Ankara, Turkey