Biobehavioral Health Alumni Profile: Frank Johannes, Ph.D.

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B.S., Fall 1999, Business Administration, Hawaii Pacific University
Ph.D. Spring 2007, Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University

On the Ph.D. program, in his words:

BB H is a very flexible program that is tailored to the individual. It has allowed me to be creative and to develop my own ideas.”

Current areas of professional interest are:

Development and application of statistical methods for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) with temporally varying effects in time-to-failure (survival) experiments.  Development and application of QTL mapping algorithms for selectively genotyped data.

Employment

August 2007 3 year Post Doctoral position at GBIC (Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, Groningen, Netherlands)
May 2007 - July 2007 Doctoral position at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France)
July 2006 - April 2007 Marie Curie fellow at INRA (L’Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris, France)

Ph.D. Thesis Title

Mapping temporally-varying quantitative trait loci in time-to-failure experiments.

Brief Description: Development and assessment of statistical methods for the mapping of genes (QTL) that are regulated in a time-dependent manner.

Ph.D. advisor

Dr. George P. Vogler