Yi Fu

First Name
Yi
Last Name
Fu
Student Status
Graduate Student
Email
yif064@ucsd.edu
Major
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Track(s)
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor
Ruth Williams
Completed Degrees

B.S., Mathematics (Applied), University of California, San Diego, 2016
B.S., Biology with specialization in Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2016

BISB Training Grant
No
Research Focus
Stochastic Processes, Epigenetics

Jessica Au

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First Name
Jessica
Last Name
Au
Student Status
Graduate Student
Email
jeau@ucsd.edu
Major
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Track(s)
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Completed Degrees

B.S., Mathematics and Scientific Computation- Biology emphasis, University of California, Davis, 2017
Minor, Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology, University of California, Davis, 2017

BISB Training Grant
No

Gege Qian

First Name
Gege
Last Name
Qian
Student Status
Graduate Student
Email
geqian@ucsd.edu
Major
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Track(s)
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Completed Degrees

B.S., Biochemistry and Cell Biology and Applied Math, University of California San Diego, 2019
M.S., Immunology, Harvard Medical School, 2021

BISB Training Grant
No

Ancestry-aware genome-wide association studies

Lab
Matteo D'Antonio
Project Type
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Rotation
Biomedical Informatics Graduate Rotation
Last Updated
Project Description

For the past 500 years, the American continent has been the site of ongoing mixing of Europeans, Native Americans, Africans and Asians, resulting in a significant percentage of Americans carrying ancestry from outside their self-identified race. However, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and polygenic risk score (PRS) calculations have been performed and optimized on individuals of European descent, with minor exceptions. As part of CAST (Center for Admixture Science and Technology), we are developing methods to perform GWAS and calculate PRS on diverse and admixed populations, using large diverse cohorts, such as the All of Us and Million Veteran Program.

Timothy Sears

First Name
Timothy
Last Name
Sears
Student Status
Graduate Student
Email
tsears@ucsd.edu
Major
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Track(s)
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor
Hannah Carter
Completed Degrees

B.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Santa Barbara, 2020

BISB Training Grant
No
Special Funding or Awards

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Research Focus
Cancer immunotherapy response prediction

Daisy Chen

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First Name
Daisy
Last Name
Chen
Student Status
Graduate Student
Email
dwc001@ucsd.edu
Major
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Track(s)
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor
Elizabeth Winzeler
Completed Degrees

B.S., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
B.S., Computational and Systems Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2021

BISB Training Grant
No
Special Funding or Awards

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

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