Students - BISB Training Grant Recipients

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Maria Luisa Amaral

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Bing Ren

Special Funding/Awards:

2018-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Hratch Baghdassarian

Hratch Baghdassarian

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Nathan E. Lewis

Research Interests: Cell-Cell Communication; Genome-Scale Modeling; Mammalian Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2017
B.S., Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2017

Special Funding/Awards:

2018-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics
2022-2023 Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Fellowship: Research Participation Program at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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Dante Bolzan

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


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Daisy Chen

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Elizabeth Winzeler

Degrees:

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

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Michael Cuoco

Michael Cuoco

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Fred (Rusty) Gage, Eran Mukamel

Research Interests: Genomics approaches to understanding retrotransposon activity in the human brain

Degrees:

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

Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

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Jenny Dong

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2022-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


Xiaomi Du

Xiaomi Du

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Biology, Caltech, 2016

Special Funding/Awards:

2019-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

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Lia Gale

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2022-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


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Aidan Glina

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


Caitlin Guccione

Caitlin Guccione

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Kit Curtius, Rob Knight

Research Interests: Cancer microbiome & mathematical modeling

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

Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

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Carlos Guzman

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Sven Heinz, Christopher Benner

Research Interests: Gene regulation, enhancer biology, chromatin regulation

Degrees:

B.S., Biology, University of Texas-Pan American, 2013
M.S., Biology, University of Texas-Pan American, 2015

Special Funding/Awards:

2017-19 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics
​Sloan Scholars Fellowship
Competitive EDGE Fellowship
2019 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

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Daniel Hakim

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2018-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


Pratibha Jagannatha

Pratibha Jagannatha

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Gene Yeo

Research Interests: Transcriptomics

Degrees:

B.S. Biomolecular Engineering

Special Funding/Awards:

2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

ARCS Scholar

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Jeff Jaureguy

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


Adam Klie

Adam Klie

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Hannah Carter

Degrees:

B.S., Bioengineering: Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2017

Special Funding/Awards:

2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Emily Kobayashi

Emily Kobayashi

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Bioinformatics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2019

Special Funding/Awards:

2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


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Eric Kofman

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


Arya Massarat

Arya Massarat

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Fine-mapping, Reproducibility

Degrees:

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

Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Hannah Mummey

Hannah Mummey

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Kyle Gaulton

Degrees:

B.S., Biochemistry, Wellesley College, 2020

Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Daniela Perry

Daniela Perry

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Statistics, Cornell University

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


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Avery Pong

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2022-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


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Anna Qi

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2022-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


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Joaquin Reyna

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

Bioengineering: Bioinformatics Bsc

Special Funding/Awards:

2018-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Timothy Sears

Timothy Sears

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Hannah Carter

Research Interests: Cancer immunotherapy response prediction

Degrees:

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

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Severine Soltani

Severine Soltani

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Benjamin Smarr

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

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

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Kimberly Spaulding

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Daniella Vo

Daniella Vo

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2020

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

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Jessica Zhou

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2017

Special Funding/Awards:

2017-18 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics
2019-20 Fulbright Study/Research Award