Positions: Assistant Staff, Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics Department of Quantitative Health Sciences The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 2006-present Education: Ph.D., Department of Statistics, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, August 2006

Key Interests:
Case-control studies, genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics, Bayesian statistics

Publications:

Statistical Methodology
Li Zhang , Bhramar Mukherjee and Malay Ghosh. Accounting for Error due to Misclassification of Exposures in Case-Control Studies of Gene-Environment Interaction, July, 2007, Statistics in Medicine (Accepted).

Robert Dorazio, Bhramar Mukherjee, Li Zhang and Malay Ghosh. Modeling Unobserved Sources of Heterogeneity in Animal Abundance using a Dirichlet Process Prior, 2007, Biometrics (online: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00873.x ).

Bhramar Mukherjee*, Li Zhang *, Malay Ghosh and Samiran Sinha. Semiparametric Bayesian Analysis of Case-Control Data under Conditional Gene-Environment Independence, 2007, Biometrics (online: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00750.x ).

Li Zhang , Bhramar Mukherjee, Malay Ghosh and Rongling Wu. A Bayesian Framework for Genetic Association in Case-Control Studies: Accounting for Unknown Population Substructure, Statistical Modeling , 2006, 6: 352-372.

Malay Ghosh, Li Zhang and Bhramar Mukherjee. Equivalence of Posteriors in the Bayesian Analysis of The Multinomial-Poisson Transformation, Metron - International Journal of Statistics , 2006, vol. LXIV, n.1: 19–28.

Li Zhang , Mark C. K. Yang, Xuelu Wang, Brian A. Larkins, Maria Gallo-Meagher, and Rongling Wu. A Model For Estimating Joint Maternal-Offspring Effects On Seed Development In Autogamous Plants, Physiological Genomics , Nov. 2004; 19: 262 -269.

Health Sciences Applications
Attila Patocs, Li Zhang , Yaomin Xu, Frank Weber, Trinidad Caldes, , George L. Mutter, Petra Platzer, and Charis Eng. Somatic TP53 Mutations Associated with Microenvironmental Genomic Alterations and Clinicopathological Features in Sporadic but Not BRCA1/2-Related Breast Carcinomas . March 2007, New England Journal of Medicine (Under Revision).

Frank Weber, Yaomin Xu, Li Zhang , Atilla Patocs, Lei Shen, Petra Platzer, and Charis Eng. Microenvironmental genomic alterations correlate with clinico-pathologic behavior in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. Journal of the American Medical Association , 2007, 297: 187-195.

Non Peer-reviewed Work
G. Murugesan, Li Zhang , S. Jang, T. Kaldus, J. Barnard, Q. Wang, P. Gaussem, E. J. Topol, K. Kottke-Marchant. P2RY12 Receptor Polymorphisms (SNPs) in patients with a history of myocardial infraction. July, 2007, International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis 2007 Congress.