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Tuomo Rankinen, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor , genetic and molecular basis of human variation in responsiveness to exercise training.

Jacob Brand, Ph.D. - Instructor , statistical genetics; statistical analysis of human genetic data pertaining to positional cloning and gene expression studies.

Eric E. Snyder, Ph.D. - Associate Professor , bioinformatics and molecular genetics applied to human obesity, computational methods for the analysis of gene expression and genomic sequence data.

Anik Boudreau, B.Sc. - Laboratory Manager , supervision and coordination of the laboratory staff, genotyping of microsatellite markers and SNPs for positional cloning studies.

Martin Angers, Ph.D. - Post-doctoral fellow , skeletal muscle gene expression in rats with high and low running capacity.

Hanna-Maaria Lakka, M.D, Ph.D. - Post-doctoral fellow , epidemiology of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Genetics of body composition.

Timo A. Lakka, M.D., Ph.D. - Visiting scientist , epidemiology of physical activity, obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Genetics of diabetes and obesity.

Ruth Loos, Ph.D. - Post-doctoral fellow , Genetics of physical inactivity and energy expenditure.

Tomohiro Okura, Ph.D. - Post-doctoral fellow , genetics of cardiovascular risk factor responses to regular physical activity.

Margarita Teran, M.D., Ph.D. - Post-doctoral fellow , genetic studies searching for new candidate genes for insulin sensitivity.

Marc Boudreaux, B.Sc. - Research Associate , genotyping of markers for positional cloning studies.

Julie Marchand M.Sc. - Research Associate , genotyping of markers for positional cloning studies.

Christina Riley, B.Sc. - Research Associate , cell culture laboratory; genotyping of markers for positional cloning studies.

Sunita V. Seemanapalli, M.Sc., M.D. - Research Associate , genotyping of markers for positional cloning studies; preparation of DNA samples.

Shannon Sonnier, B.Sc. - Research Associate , preparation of DNA samples; genotyping for candidate gene studies.

Brandon Walts, M.Sc. - Research Associate , bioinformatics support, development of software for analysis of genomic sequence data.

Jessica Watson, B.Sc. - Research Associate , genotyping of markers for positional cloning studies, cell culture laboratory.



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