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Office: 2035c Palmer Commons

Lab: 2035 Palmer Commons

Mailing address
Bioinformatics Program
University of Michigan
2017 Palmer Commons
100 Washtenaw Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2218 USA

Last modified 12-3-2007 by NR

Noah Rosenberg
Assistant Professor, Departments of Human Genetics, Biostatistics, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Assistant Research Professor Bioinformatics Program
Assistant Research Professor Life Sciences Institute

Background
BA, Mathematics, Rice University, 1997
MS, Mathematics, Stanford University, 1999
PhD, Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 2001
Postdoc, Computational Biology, University of Southern California, 2001-2005

Overview of research interests
Research in the laboratory addresses problems in evolutionary biology and human genetics through a combination of mathematical modeling, computer simulations, development of statistical methods, and inference from population-genetic data. Current areas in which the lab is focusing include:

  • Human variation and inference of human evolutionary history from genetic markers
  • Mathematical models of gene genealogies from one or more species
  • Phylogenetic reconstruction taking into account differing signals from different genes
  • The relationship of human evolution to the search for disease-susceptibility genes

    Research environment
    The lab is situated with other Bioinformatics research groups on the second floor of Palmer Commons, a new facility on the University of Michigan central campus. Palmer Commons is located next to the Life Sciences Institute, an interdisciplinary center in the biosciences. It is a short walk to buildings which house other labs with whom we have frequent interactions, in such departments as Biostatistics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Human Genetics. Palmer Commons is also close to the university's medical and science libraries and to the downtown area of the city of Ann Arbor.