{"id":22,"date":"2021-03-12T23:31:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T23:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/turrolab\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:35:18","slug":"members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/turrolab\/members\/","title":{"rendered":"Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/turrolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/383\/2021\/03\/Ernest-Turro_4A1A3109R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><strong>Ernest Turro, PhD &mdash; Principal Investigator<\/strong><br \/>\nDr Turro is a biostatistician with extensive research experience in genetics, genomics, and molecular diagnostics. He has made important contributions towards understanding the genetic causes of rare hereditary disorders, particularly neurodevelopmental, hematological and immune disorders. He has also developed a number of influential statistical methods, including methods for inferring genetic associations with rare diseases and methods for modeling the expression and splicing of genes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Greene, PhD &mdash; Assistant Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anton \u00d6berg Sysojev, PhD &mdash; Postdoctoral Fellow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kayleigh Rutherford &mdash; Bioinformatician III<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zafiirah Baurhoo &mdash; Associate Researcher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Koen De Wispelaere &mdash; PhD student (KU Leuven)<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Former group members at Mount Sinai<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nathalia Beller<\/strong>, Associate Researcher, 2023&ndash;2025.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yeaji Park<\/strong>, Associate Researcher, 2022&ndash;2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Former students<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shrey Patel<\/strong>, rotation project, PhD student (Mount Sinai), 2024.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jordana Kosowsky<\/strong>, MSc in Genetic Counseling student (Mount Sinai), 2023&ndash;2024.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aaditya Sharma<\/strong>, PhD student (University of Cambridge), 2019&ndash;2024.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joep ten Wolde<\/strong>, PhD student (University of Cambridge), 2017&ndash;2023.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chris Porras<\/strong>, rotation project, MD PhD student (Mount Sinai), 2021.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hippolyte Verdier<\/strong>, rotation project, MPhil in Computational Biology (University of Cambridge), 2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daniel Greene<\/strong>, PhD student (University of Cambridge), 2013&ndash;2017.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Natasha Andressa<\/strong>, Visiting PhD student (University of Cambridge), 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Olivia Murrin<\/strong>, research project, MSc Human Molecular Genetics (Imperial College London), 2017.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Archana Ramesh<\/strong>, research project, MSc Human Molecular Genetics (Imperial College London), 2017.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mike Field<\/strong>, rotation project, MPhil in Computational Biology (University of Cambridge), 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>J\u00fcrgen J\u00e4nes<\/strong>, rotation project, Wellcome Trust PhD programme in Mathematics, Genomics and Medicine (University of Cambridge), 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest Turro, PhD &mdash; Principal Investigator Dr Turro is a biostatistician with extensive research experience in genetics, genomics, and molecular diagnostics. He has made important contributions towards understanding the genetic causes of rare hereditary disorders, particularly neurodevelopmental, hematological and immune disorders. He has also developed a number of influential statistical methods, including methods for inferring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/turrolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/turrolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/turrolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/turrolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/turrolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/turrolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/turrolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/turrolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}