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Jurg Ott's former and current scientific associates

FORMER STUDENTS (mostly PhD students) and INTERNS

Dates Name Graduating
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
2011-2014 Chen Suo Beijing graduate student at Karolinska U, Sweden
2012 Busra Angin Beijing undergraduate student at Bilkent U, Ankara, Turkey
2018 Aarushi Sharma New York graduate student at Gwalior University, India
2023 Muskan Bhatia New York graduate student at Gwalior University, India
FORMER STUDENTS (mostly PhD students) and INTERNSDatesNameGraduating1987-1993Joseph D. TerwilligerDept. of Genetics & Development, Columbia University1989-1994Suzanne