Neal Grantham earns his PhD!
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Neal Grantham defended his thesis “Statistical Methods for High-Dimensional, Spatially-Distributed Microbiome Data from Next-Generation Sequencing.” His thesis work was supervised by Brian Reich in collaboration with Kevin Gross, Eric Laber, and Krishna Pacifici. Neal has accepted a position with Phylagen in San Francisco where he will continue his work with microbiome data. Great work, Neal!