Announcement: July 2001: CONGRATULATIONS to Mariza de Andrade
(Biostatistics, Ph.D., 1990) who has been promoted to Associate Professor at the Mayo.

Announcment: March 2001: CONGRATULATIONS to Heike Bickeboller
Heike Bickeb"oller (Statistics Ph.D., 1993) has been appointed to a full C3 Professorship at University of G"ottingen, Germany, as head of a new Department of Genetic Epidemiology there.

The following are students who have received their Ph.D from the University of Washington with thesis work in statistical genetics and who are still working in statistical genetics. For additions, deletions, and ammendments, please email Elizabeth Thompson or Stephanie Monks. Eric Anderson: QERM, 2001. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson. MONTE CARLO METHODS FOR INFERENCE IN POPULATION GENETIC MODELS Current position; Slatkin Group, Department Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley. Mariza de Andrade: Biostatistics, 1990. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson. ESTIMATION OF THE GENOTYPIC PARAMETERS UNDER NON- NORMAL MODELS. Current position; Department of Health Sciences Research, Section of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic. Heike Bickeboller:Statistics, 1993. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson . THE POISSON CLUMPING HEURISTIC AND THE SURVIVAL OF GENOME IN SMALL PEDIGREES Current position; Institut f�ür Medizinische Statistik und Epidemiologie, Technical University of Munich . Sharon Browning: Statistics, 1999. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson. MONTE CARLO LIKELIHOOD CALCULATION FOR IDENTITY BY DESCENT DATA. Current position; Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University. Nicky Chapman: Biostatistics, 2001. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson. GENOME DESCENT IN ISOLATED POPULATIONS Current position; Wijsman Group, Division of Medical Genetics University of Washington. Gary Churchill: Biostatistics, 1988. Advisor: Elizabeth Thompson. STOCHASTIC MODELS FOR DNA SEQUENCE DATA. Currently at The Jackson Laboratory. Katrina Goddard: Biostatistics, 1999. Advisor; Ellen Wijsman. STUDY DESIGN ISSUES IN THE ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX GENETIC TRAITS. Current position; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University. Jinko Graham: Biostatistics, 1998. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson. DISEQUILIBRIUM FINE-MAPPING OF A RARE ALLELE VIA COALESCENT MODELS OF GENE ANCESTRY. Current position; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Simon Fraser University. Sun Wei Guo: Biostatistics, 1991. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson. MONTE CARLO METHODS IN QUANTITATIVE GENETICS. Current position; Department of Pediatrics and Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin. Hongzhe Li: Statistics, 1995. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson. SEMIPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF MAJOR GENE AND RANDOM ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS FOR AGE OF ONSET. Current position; School of Medicine and Division of Statistics, University of Califonia, Davis. Shili Lin: Statistics, 1993. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson. MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO ESTIMATES OF PROBABILITIES ON COMPLEX STRUCTURES. Current position; Department of Statistics, Ohio State University. Susan McGorray: Biostatistics, 1990. Advisor; Barbara McKnight. EVALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND GENETIC COMPONENTS OF DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY BASED ON DATA OBTAINED FROM SIBLING PAIRS. Current position; Department of Statistics, Division of Biostatistics, University of Florida. Nuala Sheehan: Statistics, 1990. Advisor; Elizabeth Thompson. GENETIC RESTORATION ON COMPLEX PEDIGREES. Current position; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Leicester. Kimberly Siegmund: Biostatistics, 1995. Advisor; Barbara McKnight. GENETIC MODELS FOR HAZARDS IN FAMILIES. Current position; Department of Preventative Medicine, Divisions of Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Southern California. Jeffery Thorne: Genetics, 1991. Advisor; Joe Felsenstein. PAIRWISE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS: EVOLUTIONARY PARAMETER ESTIMATION AND ALIGNMENT. Current position; Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University. Camlin Tierney: Biostatistics, 1992. Advisor; Barbara McKnight. POWER OF AFFECTED SIBLING METHOD TESTS FOR LINKAGE. Current position; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health.