Avery Pong

First Name
Avery
Last Name
Pong
Student Status
Graduate Student
Email
avpong@ucsd.edu
Major
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor
Co-Advisor
Completed Degrees

B.S., Biochemistry, University of Washington, 2019

BISB Training Grant
Yes
Special Funding or Awards

2022-24 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Research Focus
Spatial transcriptomics, cell-cell interaction inference, isoform-resolution differential expression

Anna Qi

First Name
Anna
Last Name
Qi
Student Status
Graduate Student
Email
anqi@ucsd.edu
Major
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Completed Degrees

B.S., Biology: Bioinformatics, University of California San Diego, 2022

BISB Training Grant
Yes
Special Funding or Awards

2022-24 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Improving women’s health outcomes

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Project Description

We have shown repeatedly in humans and animal models that females are as tractable with statistics as males (actually, often more than). Yet female physiology remains inappropriately understudied. Help us refine algorithms, map changes like pregnancy and menopause, and explore diversity within as well as across traditional sex categories.

Diversity within physiological data

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Project Description

Algorithms tend to be one size fits all, where as people are similar or dissimilar in complex and unmapped ways. Help map differences in normal routines, as well as in illness and recovery trajectories. These might arise from known demographic information, co-morbid conditions (diabetes, pregnancy, etc.), or be represent different patterns in illness associated with unknown or latent variables.