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
Arjun Chandrasekhar
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Special Funding/Awards:
2014-16 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
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
John Sauls
Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Advisor(s): Suckjoon Jun
Research Interests: Bacterial Physiology, Directed Evolution
Degrees:
B.S., Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
M.S., Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
Special Funding/Awards:
2016-18 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
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
Yuan Zhao
Special Funding/Awards:
2013-15 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