Janet Sinsheimer

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Janet Suzanne Sinsheimer is an American expert in statistical genetics who works as a professor of human genetics, biomathematics and biostatistics in the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] Topics in her research include genome-wide association studies, epigenetics, and Bayesian methods for phylogenetics.

Education[]

Sinsheimer graduated from Brown University in 1979, majoring in chemistry. She earned a master's degree in biochemistry in 1985 from Brandeis University, a second master's degree in biomathematics in 1988 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Ph.D. in biomathematics in 1994 from UCLA.[1] Her dissertation, Extensions to Evolutionary Parsimony, concerned phylogeny (the inference of evolutionary trees), and was jointly supervised by evolutionary biologist James A. Lake and biostatistician Roderick J. A. Little.[2]

Recognition[]

Sinsheimer became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2013.[3] The Linnean Society of London elected her as a fellow in 2014.[4] In 2017 the Boston University Department of Biostatistics gave her the L. Adrienne Cupples Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service in Biostatistics.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Janet Sinsheimer", Faculty Directory, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, retrieved 2020-06-06
  2. ^ Janet Sinsheimer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Many Honored at Presidential Address, Awards Ceremony" (PDF), AmStat News, pp. 20–22, October 2013
  4. ^ "Fellows Elected 2014" (PDF), Annual Report 2014, Linnean Society, pp. 43–44
  5. ^ L. Adrienne Cupples Award Presented to UCLA Professor, Boston University School of Public Health, 28 April 2017, retrieved 2020-06-06

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