Students - BISB Training Grant Recipients

Anthony Aylward
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Degrees:
B.S., CCS Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2012
Special Funding/Awards:
2013-15 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Hratch Baghdassarian
Program: Bioinformatics and 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

Brett Copeland
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Special Funding/Awards:
2018-19 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

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

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

Daniel Hakim
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Special Funding/Awards:
2018-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Jason Hyun
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor(s): Bernhard Palsson
Research Interests: Microbial pan-genomes, antimicrobial resistance
Degrees:
B.S., Chemical-Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017
Special Funding/Awards:
2017-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Pratibha Jagannatha
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Special Funding/Awards:
2019-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Benjamin Kellman
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor(s): Nathan E. Lewis
Research Interests: Systems Medicine: Pediatric Diagnostics and Insight
Degrees:
B.S., Brain and Cognitive Science in Neurobiology, University of Rochester, 2013
B.A., Biology, University of Rochester, 2013
Min., Mathematics, University of Rochester, 2013
Min., Computer Science, University of Rochester, 2013
Special Funding/Awards:
2013-14 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

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:
2019-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Emily Kobayashi
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Degrees:
B.S., Bioinformatics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2019
Special Funding/Awards:
2019-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Eric Kofman
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Special Funding/Awards:
2019-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Miin Lin
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Special Funding/Awards:
2015-17 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Jens Luebeck
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor(s): Vineet Bafna
Research Interests: Cancer biology and genomic structural variation
Degrees:
B.S, Applied Computational & Mathematical Sciences, University of Washington 2015
Special Funding/Awards:
2015-17 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Jamison McCorrison
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Degrees:
B.S., Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2008
Special Funding/Awards:
2014-15 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Ileena Mitra
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor(s): Melissa Gymrek
Research Interests: Human Genomics
Degrees:
B.S., Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, 2013
Special Funding/Awards:
2016-17 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics
2019-20 Autism Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

Robert Morey
Special Funding/Awards:
2017-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Edward J O'Brien
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor(s): Bernhard Palsson, Philip Bourne
Special Funding/Awards:
2010-11 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Ryan O'Neil
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor(s): Joseph Ecker
Special Funding/Awards:
2012-13 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Joaquin Reyna
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Degrees:
Bioengineering: Bioinformatics Bsc
Special Funding/Awards:
2018-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Samuel Roth
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor(s): Christopher Benner
Research Interests: Genomics, Epigenetics, Transcriptional Regulation
Degrees:
B.A., Biology, Computer Science, Wesleyan University, 2013
M.A., Biology, Wesleyan University, 2014
Special Funding/Awards:
2014-16 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Isaac Shamie
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Degrees:
B.S., Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, 2014
Minor, Computational Neuroscience, Carnegie Mellon University, 2014
Special Funding/Awards:
2016-18 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

James Sorrentino
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor(s): Nathan E. Lewis, Jeffrey Esko
Research Interests: Proteomics, Glycoproteomics, MRSA, Sepsis
Degrees:
B.S., Bioengineering with Bioinformatics minor, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2017
Special Funding/Awards:
2017-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Colleen Weatherwax
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Special Funding/Awards:
2016-17 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Lina Zheng
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Degrees:
B.S. in Pharmaceutical Science
M.S. in Statistics/Biostatistics
Special Funding/Awards:
2017-19 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

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