Simon Tavaré

Program in Molecular and Computational Biology
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Southern California
1050 Childs Way, RRI 201B
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2910

Phone: 213 740 8766
FAX: 213 740 2437
Email: stavare at usc dot edu

Biographical Sketch

I have been at USC since 1989, where I am now a Research Professor and hold the George and Louise Kawamoto Chair in Biological Sciences. My research has focused on statistical problems arising in molecular biology, human genetics, population genetics, molecular evolution and bioinformatics.

I am an associate editor of Annals of Applied Statistics, Annals of Human Genetics, Journal of Computational Biology and Statistics Surveys, on the Editorial Board of CaPR (Cancer Prevention Research), MathematicS In Action, Human Genomics, J R Soc Interface, and Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online. and past Associate Editor for 10 other journals in probability, statistics and biology.

Since 2003, I have been a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, UK. Further details may be found here. I am also Professor of Cancer Research (Bioinformatics) in the Oncology Department and Senior Group Leader in the new Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute (CRI). There our research focusses on cancer genomics. For further details click here. In 2009 I was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci).

I am on Advisory Boards for a number of Institutes and Consortia:

CV and Publications

Current Research Interests in the Group

Current Research Funding

We are supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health.

Current Research Students

  • Simon Knott [Joint with O. Aparicio]
  • Tittu Nellimoottil [Joint with O. Aparicio]

Systems Assistant

  • Ravi Prakash

Collaborating Labs

Former Postdocs

  • Mary Sara McPeek (1994-1995) University of Chicago
  • Paul Marjoram (1995-1998) Research Associate Professor, USC Keck School of Medicine
  • Jae K. Lee (1995-1997) University of Virginia
  • Sophie Schbath (1996) INRA, France
  • Anna Pluzhnikov (1996-1998) University of Chicago
  • Semyon Kruglyak (1998-2000) Illumina, Inc.
  • Daniella Golinelli (2000-2002) RAND Corporation
  • Pierre Nicolas (2004-2005) INRA, France
  • Noah Rosenberg (2001-2004) University of Michigan
  • Peter Calabrese (2001-2004) CMB, USC
  • Claudia Rangel (2003-2006) INMEGEN, Mexico City
  • Andrew E. Teschendorff (2005-2006) Heller Fellow, UCL Cancer Centre, London
  • Natalie P. Thorne (2004-2008) WEHI, Melbourne.
  • Irene Tiemann-Boege (2007-2008) Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.
  • Matthew E. Ritchie (2006-2008) WEHI, Melbourne.

Former Research Students

  • P. J. Joyce (PhD 1988) Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Idaho
  • R. S. Lundstrom (PhD 1990) Idaho Technologies Inc., Salt Lake City, UT
  • L. Markovtsova (PhD 2000) Bioinformatician, Roche Pharmaceuticals
  • O. Will (PhD 2001) Marketing Science & Innovation, OTX, Culver City, CA
  • J. Wu (PhD 2001)
  • K. Millman (PhD 2005) Research Associate, Dean Lab, CHORI.
  • D. Abdueva (PhD 2006) Affymetrix
  • D. Skvortsov (PhD 2006) Illumina
  • R. Jiang (PhD 2006) Postdoc, Wall Lab, UCSF
  • V. Plagnol (PhD 2006) Postdoc, Todd Lab, Cambridge
  • O. Sargsyan (PhD 2006) Postdoc, Wakeley Lab, Harvard
  • W. Xu (PhD 2006) Biostatistician, Stanford Genome Center
  • R. Alaghband (PhD 2007) Trading and Quantitative Research, JPMorgan
  • C. Curtis (PhD 2007) Postdoc, Tavaré Lab, Cambridge
  • J. C. Marioni (PhD 2007) Postdoc, Stephens Lab, Chicago
  • R. D. Wilkinson (PhD 2007) Postdoc, University of Sheffield
  • M. J. Dunning (PhD 2008). Bioinformatics Core, CRI, Cambridge
  • T. Hardcastle (PhD 2008; submitted) [joint with J Brenton] Postdoc, Baulcombe Lab, Cambridge
  • I. Manolopoulou (PhD 2009) Postdoc, SAMSI, North Carolina
  • Dhruv Grover (PhD 2009) Postdoc, Rubin Lab, HHMI Janelia Farm

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http://www.cmb.usc.edu/people/stavare/Tavare.html, June 15, 2009