Tanzy Love, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. (2005) Iowa State University

 

Contact Information:

University of Rochester
Dept of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
601 Elmwood Avenue Box 630
Rochester, New York 14642
 
Office: MRBX G-11128
Phone: (585) 276-5559
Fax: (585) 273-1031
E-mail: Tanzy_Love@urmc.rochester.edu

Research Interests

  • Environmental health statistics
  • Clustering and latent variable models
  • Mixed membership models and model choice
  • Normalization and preprocessing issues relating to gene expression
  • Bayesian models for QTLs and growth curves
  • Hierarchical Bayesian models for gene expression data
  • Scalable parallel model-based clustering
  • Proteomics: preprocessing and analysis
  • Social network models

 

Published Papers

 

Submitted for Publication

  • Confidence intervals for QTL location using composite interval mapping resubmitted to PLoS One, Crosset, D., Lauter, N., and Love, T.M.
  • Mixed Membership Models of Scientific Publications submitted August 2009 to Proc. National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Airoldi, E., Erosheva, E., Fienberg, S., Joutard, C., Love, T.M., and Shirngarpure, S.
  • Hierarchical Bayesian Mixed-Membership Models and Latent Pattern Discovery, submitted September 2009 to Frontiers of Statistical Decision Making and Bayesian Analysis - In Honor of James O. Berger. Airoldi, E., Fienberg, S., Joutard, C., Love, T.M.

 

Current Works

  • Clustering Posterior Distributions-Application to Somatic Embryogenesis in Maize Love, T.M. and Carriquiry, A.L.
  • The Impact of Learning Community Participation on Student Engagement: A Longitudinal Case Study Saunders, K., Love, T.M., and Shelley, M.
  • On the Granularity of Semantic Pattern in a Database of Scientific Publications Airoldi, E., Fienberg, S., Joutard, C., Love, T.M., and Shirngarpure, S.
  • Latent Indirect Effects - Prenatal Mercury Exposure Association with Developmental Outcomes by Social and Environmental Factors Love, T.M. and Thurston, S.
  • Quantification of Simian Immunodeficicy Virus Escape Dynamics from CD8+ T lymphocytes in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Macaques using Ultradeep Pyrosequencing Bimber, B.E., Burwitz, B.J., Reynolds, M.R., Love, T.M., Thurston, S., Keefer, M., Dewhust, S., O'Connor, D., and Lee, H.Y.
  • Hierarchical Mixed Membership Models for Honey Bee Genomes Love, T.M.
  • QTLs for peak pubescence in Zea mays Lauter, N., Crosset, D., and Love, T.M.

 

Chapters and Invited Papers