Michael Cuoco

First Name
Michael
Last Name
Cuoco
Student Status
Graduate Student
Email
mcuoco@ucsd.edu
Major
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Track(s)
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor
Fred (Rusty) Gage
Co-Advisor
Eran Mukamel
Completed Degrees

B.S., Molecular and Cellular Biology, Trinity College-Connecticut, 2017

BISB Training Grant
No
Special Funding or Awards

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Research Focus
Genomics approaches to understanding retrotransposon activity in the human brain

Severine Soltani

First Name
Severine
Last Name
Soltani
Student Status
Graduate Student
Email
ssoltani@ucsd.edu
Major
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Track(s)
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor
Benjamin Smarr
Completed Degrees

B.S., Cognitive Science w/ Specialization in Machine Learning and Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, 2020
Minor, Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, 2020

BISB Training Grant
No
Special Funding or Awards

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Karla P. Godinez-Macias

First Name
Karla P.
Last Name
Godinez-Macias
Student Status
Alumni
Email
kpgodine@ucsd.edu
Major
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Track(s)
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor
Elizabeth Winzeler
Co-Advisor
Nathan E. Lewis
Completed Degrees

B.S., Computer Science, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 2016
M.S., Bioinformatics, The University of Texas at El Paso, 2019

BISB Training Grant
No
Degree Conferred
Ph.D.
Year Graduated
Quarter Graduated
Spring
Thesis Title
Leveraging computational approaches for the identification of therapeutic drug target candidates in Plasmodium parasites

Arya Massarat

First Name
Arya
Last Name
Massarat
Student Status
Graduate Student
Email
amassara@ucsd.edu
Major
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Track(s)
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Completed Degrees

B.S., Mathematical and Computational Biology, Harvey Mudd College, 2020

BISB Training Grant
No
Special Funding or Awards

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Research Focus
Fine-mapping, Reproducibility

Lauryn Bruce

First Name
Lauryn
Last Name
Bruce
Student Status
Alumni
Email
lbruce@ucsd.edu
Major
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics
Track(s)
Biomedical Informatics
Advisor
Benjamin Smarr
Co-Advisor
Lucila Ohno-Machado
BISB Training Grant
No
Special Funding or Awards

2020-23 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

Degree Conferred
Ph.D.
Year Graduated
Quarter Graduated
Fall
Thesis Title
Promoting Equitable Health Using Time Series Wearable Data to Explore Sex Differences and Characterize Pregnancy

Caitlin Guccione

First Name
Caitlin
Last Name
Guccione
Student Status
Alumni
Email
cguccion@ucsd.edu
Major
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Track(s)
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor
Kit Curtius
Co-Advisor
Rob Knight
Completed Degrees

B.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Rhode Island
B.A., Computer Science, University of Rhode Island
M.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Rhode Island

BISB Training Grant
No
Special Funding or Awards

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Research Focus
Cancer microbiome & mathematical modeling
Degree Conferred
Ph.D.
Year Graduated
Quarter Graduated
Spring
Thesis Title
Disentangling the cancer microbiome: overcoming host contamination to model population dynamics and advance diagnostics
Current Employer
Natera
Current Position
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist

Arjana Begzati

First Name
Arjana
Last Name
Begzati
Student Status
Alumni
Email
abegzati@ucsd.edu
Major
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Track(s)
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor
Amit Majithia
Co-Advisor
Mohit Jain
Completed Degrees

B.A., Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2019

BISB Training Grant
No
Research Focus
Metabolomics
Degree Conferred
Ph.D.
Year Graduated
Quarter Graduated
Spring
Thesis Title
Identifying Metabolite Signatures of Type 2 Diabetes Risk, Etiology, and Therapy Using Data from Large Human Cohorts
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