Graduate Program Committees

• Ruben Abagyan (Pharmacy)
• Vineet Bafna (Computer Science and Engineering)
• Steve Briggs (Biology)
• Hannah Carter (Division of Medical Sciences), Admissions Chair
• Kit Curtius (Biomedical Informatics)
• Joseph Ecker (Biological Sciences)
• Terry Gaasterland (Marine Biology)
• Trey Ideker (School of Medicine)
• Shamim Nemati (Biomedical Informatics)
• Pavel Pevzner (Computer Science and Engineering)
• Bing Ren (Cellular and Molecular Medicine)
• Amy Sitapati (Biomedical Informatics)
• Shankar Subramaniam (Bioengineering)
• Glenn Tesler (Mathematics)
• Gene Yeo (Cellular and Molecular Medicine)

Review core and elective class offerings.
Advise director on student petitions.

• Glenn Tesler (Mathematics), Committee Chair
• Vineet Bafna (Computer Science and Engineering)
• Julie Law (Salk Institute)
• Wei Wang (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
• Sheng Zhong (Bioengineering)

Keeping course catalog and website up to date.
Keeping records of student publications and other records relevant to Training grant.
Rotation reports, including faculty research projects.
Alumni tracking.
Develop extra-mural links of the Program.

• Glenn Tesler (Mathematics), Committee Chair
• Niema Moshiri (Computer Science and Engineering)
• Vineet Bafna (Computer Science and Engineering)
• Lucila Ohno-Machado (Biomedical Informatics)
• Shankar Subramaniam (Bioengineering)
• Terry Gaasterland (Marine Biology)

Select speakers for the Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology Colloquium.
This is jointly organized by BISB and the Genetics Training Program.

BISB

• Joseph Gleeson (Neurosciences, School of Medicine), Faculty Chair
• Mike Cuoco (BISB Graduate Student), Student Chair
   
• Ethan Armand (BISB Graduate Student)
• Den Chen (BISB Graduate Student)
• Vicente Fajardo Rosas (BISB Graduate Student)
• Yi Fu (BISB Graduate Student)
• Adam Klie (BISB Graduate Student)
• Eric Kofman (BISB Graduate Student)
• Daniela Perry (BISB Graduate Student)
• Molly Sacks (BISB Graduate Student)
• Omar Shanta (BISB Graduate Student)
• Xingzhao Wen (BISB Graduate Student)
   
• Terry Gaasterland (Marine Biology), BNFO 281 Instructor
• Amber Christensen (BISB Program Coordinator)

Genetics Training Program

• Joseph Gleeson (Neurosciences, School of Medicine), Faculty Chair
• Rebekah White (Institute for Genomic Medicine Staff)
• And additional members of the Genetics Training Program

Nominate students for fellowships.
Find and publicize fellowships of interest to students in the program.
Hold seminars to help students apply for fellowships.

• Nathan Lewis (Pediatrics), Committee Chair
• Terry Gaasterland (Marine Biology)
• Alon Goren (School of Medicine)
• Siavash Mirarab (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Graduate student leadership committee.
Organizes BEx, monthly social hours, and other events.

• Raimon Padrós and Jonathan Kirkland, Presidents
• Ningxin Kang, Director of Fundraising
• Anjali Srinivasan, Director of External Affairs
• Deepti Murthy and Anjali Srinivasan, Directors of Community Events
• Avery Pong, Director of Recruitment and Onboarding
• Daira Melendez, Director of Finance
• Jade Wang, Director of Student Wellness
• Simone Spandau, Director of Outreach
• Douglas Meyer, Varshini Sathish, and Molly Sacks, Steering Committee Representatives
• Simone Spandau, GPSA Representative
• Daniel Halmos, Union Point of Contact

Organizes BISB/BMI Boot Camp.

• Cemil Can Ali Marandi (BISB Graduate Student)
• Zane Koch (BISB Graduate Student)
• Avery Pong (BISB Graduate Student)
• Molly Sacks (BISB Graduate Student)

Fall 2025 application cycle.

• Hannah Carter (Division of Medical Genetics), Committee Chair
• Glenn Tesler (Mathematics), Committee Co-chair
• Ludmil Alexandrov (Cellular and Molecular Medicine)
• Tiffany Amariuta (Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute)
• Vikas Bansal (Pediatrics)
• Christopher Benner (School of Medicine)
• Alejandro Chavez (Pediatrics)
• Chi-Hua Chen (Radiology)
• Matteo D'Antonio (Biomedical Informatics)
• Tal Einav (La Jolla Institute for Immunology)
• Emma Farley (Molecular Biology)
• Gen-Sheng Feng (Pathology)
• Kathleen Fisch (Reproductive Medicine)
• Terry Gaasterland (Marine Biology)
• Rodney Gabriel (School of Medicine)
• Alon Goren (School of Medicine)
• Jejo Koola (Biomedical Informatics)
• Pallav Kosuri (Salk Institute for Biological Sciences)
• Amit Majithia (Endocrinology)
• Graham McVicker (Salk Institute for Biological Sciences)
• Jill Mesirov (School of Medicine)
• Niema Moshiri (Computer Science and Engineering)
• Eran Mukamel (Cognitive Science)
• Abraham Palmer (Psychiatry)
• Bjoern Peters (La Jolla Institute for Immunology)
• Miguel Reina-Campos (La Jolla Institute for Immunology)
• Sandra Sanchez-Roige (Psychiatry)
• Jonathan Sebat (School of Medicine)
• Amy Sitapati (School of Medicine)
• Pandurangan Vijayanand (La Jolla Institute for Immunology)
• Wei Wang (Cellular and Molecular Medicine)
• Joel Wertheim (School of Medicine)
• Dominik Wodarz (Biological Sciences)
• Huilin Zhou (Cellular and Molecular Medicine)