CCEB Seminar-Paul Scheet, PhD

Funky Genomic Phenomena:  A Landscape of Acquired Allelic Imbalance Across the Cancer Continuum   Paul Scheet, PhD Associate Professor The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center   Paul Scheet, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington, under the supervision of Matthew Stephens , followed by a postdoc with Gonçalo Abecasis at the University of Michigan where he also worked in the lab of Noah Rosenberg . His research interests include how information from haplotype variation, linkage disequilibirium, and population genetics can inform questions in complex disease genetics and cancer genomics. He developed and maintains the software package fastPHASE (for the estimation of missing genotypes and haplotypes) and hapLOH (for deconvolution of tumor-normal mixtures of DNA, allowing sensitive detection of allelic imbalance). Dr. Scheet is a full member on the faculty of The Univ. of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston .