Students - BISB Training Grant Recipients
Hratch Baghdassarian
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor(s): Nathan E. Lewis
Research Interests: Mammalian resource allocation; Genome-scale modeling; Intercellular interactions
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
Dante Bolzan
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Special Funding/Awards:
2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics
Daisy Chen
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
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:
2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics
Candace Clark
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Degrees:
B.A., Berea College 2015
M.S., Microbiology San Francisco State University 2021
Special Funding/Awards:
The Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) Program
2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics
Michael Cuoco
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor(s): Fred (Rusty) Gage, Eran Mukamel
Research Interests: LINE-1 retrotransposon activity in the mammalian brain
Degrees:
B.S. Molecular and Cellular Biology
Special Funding/Awards:
2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
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
Aidan Glina
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Special Funding/Awards:
2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics
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
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:
2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics
Jeff Jaureguy
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Special Funding/Awards:
2020-21 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:
2019-21 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:
2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics
Eric Kofman
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Special Funding/Awards:
2019-21 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
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
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
Ryan O'Neil
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor(s): Joseph Ecker
Special Funding/Awards:
2012-13 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics
Daniela Perry
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Degrees:
B.S., Statistics, Cornell University
Special Funding/Awards:
2021-22 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
Timothy Sears
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Special Funding/Awards:
2021-22 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
Severine Soltani
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
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:
2021-22 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
Kimberly Spaulding
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Special Funding/Awards:
2021-22 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