Fifth + Year
Hasan Alkhairo
Virginia Commonwealth University
MS, Bioinformatics
BS, Bioinformatics
PI: Catherine Tcheandjieu Gueliatcha, Neil Risch
Laura Almonte
Other
BS, Genomic Sciences
PI: Marina Sirota, Gabriela Fragiadakis
Sebastián Cruz-González
University Of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras
BS, Molecular and Cell Biology
PI: Tony Capra
Research summary: The Influence of Admixture on Biological Aging in the Context of Alzheimer’s Disease
Outreach activities:
Guest Participant on the Stanford University JUST Health Podcast (2024)
UCSF Summer Research Training Program 2024 Student Advisor
NSF GRFP BMI Writing Workshop Teaching Assistant (2023)
UCSF BMI Representative at ABRCMS 2022
Shiron Drusinsky
University of California, Santa Cruz
BS, Neuroscience
PI: Katie Pollard
Research summary: Machine Learning to Decode DNA Sequence Effects on Gene Expression
Ryder Easterlin
Northwestern University
BA, Biological Sciences
PI: Nadav Ahituv
Amanda Everitt
University of California, Davis
BS, Biotechnology
PI: Katie Pollard
Grant Goldman
Brown University
BA, Applied Math; Economics
PI: Vasilis Ntranos
Research summary: Applications of protein language models to human genetics
Tianna Grant
St. Francis College
BS, Biology
PI: Jimmie Ye
Research summary: Elucidate the contributions of Aire and MHCII on TCR repertoire selection of CD4+ T cells
Umair Khan
Portland State University
BS, Computer Science and Mathematics (double)
PI: Marina Sirota
Chang Kim
University of California, Santa Cruz
BS, Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics
PI: Tomasz Nowakowski
Carolyn Ku
she/her
Carnegie Mellon University
BS, Computational Biology
PI: Steven Altschuler
Research summary: understanding chronic hypoxia adaptation during fetal development
Alex Lee
Vassar College
BA, Biology
PI: Reza Abbasi-Asl
Research summary: Machine learning tool development for computational biology and clinical neuroscience
Thomas Mazumder
Johns Hopkins University
BS, Molecular & Cellular Biology
PI: Jimmie Ye
Haleigh Miller
University of California, Davis
BS, Math and Scientific Computation
PI: Joseph DeRisi
Grace Ramey
University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Computational and Systems Biology, Neuroscience
PI: Tony Capra
Research summary: Using genomic prediction tools and medical records to study the genetic and clinical signatures of neurological disease
Lee Rao
University of Texas-Austin
BS, Computer Science
PI: Steven Altschuler, Lani Wu
Research summary: Detecting interactions from combinatorial screens with high-dimensional phenotypes
Outreach activities: AI4ALL
Maurisa Saylor
she/her/hers
Principia College, Hampshire College
BA, BA, Biology, Biology
PI: Catherine Tcheandjieu Gueliatcha
Research summary: Applying machine learning on cardiac MRI to identify cross-sectional structural variations
Maggie Tsui
she/her
University of California, San Diego
BS, Molecular Biology
PI: Jingjing Li, Franklin Huang
Research summary: Leveraging allele-specific expression (ASE) for cancer driver identification in prostate cancer and cancer disparities
Jacqueline Williams
she/her
Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
MS, Human Genetics and Genomic Data Analytics
University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Human Biology and Society
PI: Jill Hollenbach
Research summary: Characterizing natural killer cell receptor variation in the context of multiple sclerosis (MS)
Fourth Year
Ashir Borah
Dickinson College
BS, Mathematics and Computer Science
PI: Luke Gilbert
Han Chen
University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Bioengineering
PI: Karin Pelka, Christina Theodoris
Yaen Chen
Northeastern University
BS, Behavioural Neuroscience
PI: Tony Capra
Bryson Choy
University of Southern California
MS, Quantitative and Computational Biology
BS, Quantitative Biology
PI: Jimmie Ye
Claire Dubin
University of California, Berkeley
BS, Microbial Biology (BS); Data Science (BA)
PI: Marina Sirota
Cindy Pino
University of California, Berkeley
BAS, Molecular Environmental Biology
PI: Katie Pollard
Shu Zhang
Cornell University
BA, Biological Sciences
PI: Katie Pollard
Third Year
Prathamesh Chati
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
BA, Chemistry (Biochemistry) & Computer Science
PI: Vasilis Ntranos
Wanjun Gu
UC SAN DIEGO
B.S. Chemical Engineering & B.A. Economics
PI: Sergio Baranzini
Beniamin Krupkin
ISRAEL
MS, Genetics
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY
BSC, Biology
PI: Nadav Ahituv
Siddharth Mahesh
UNIV PITTSBURGH
BS, Computational Biology & Computer Science
PI: David Quigley
Ashvin Ravi
UC BERKELEY
BA, Developmental Genetics
PI: Tony Capra
Sara Smith
UC BERKELEY
BS, Bioengineering
PI: Gabriela Fragiadakis
Research summary: Leveraging multi-omics to better understand and predict lupus nephritis
Yujie (York) Zhang
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
MS, Computational Biology & Quantitative Genetics
UC SAN DIEGO
BS, Bioengineering: bioinformatics
PI: Christina Theodoris
Second Year
Sarah Ancheta
University of California: Berkeley
BA, Data Science and Music
PI: Martin Kampmann, Christina Theodoris
Noah Baker
UC Berkeley
MPH, Epi & Biostats
University of Washington
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Madhumita Sushil
Research summary: Applying large language models and AI/ML to identify rare diseases in electronic health records
Isobel Beasley
University Of Melbourne
MS, BioSciences
PI: Ryan Hernandez, Dara Torgerson
Zoe Chen
Northwestern University
MS, Biostatistics
PI: Yin Shen
William Johnson
California Polytechnic State University: San Luis Obispo
BS, Biological Sciences
PI: David Quigley
Ipsa Mittra
University of Maryland: College Park
BS, Computer Science
PI: Jill Hollenbach
Ally Nicolella
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
BS, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
PI: Ryan Corces, Barbara Engelhardt
Sanjay Rangavajjhala
University of California: Berkeley
BA, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Computer Science
PI: Gabriela Fragiadakis
Rashad Reid
Temple University
BS, Biology
PI: Diego Calderon
Valeria Sanchez Estrada
St. John's University
MS, Computational Biology and Biostatistics
BS, Biology
PI: Nicola Mueller
Vishvak Subramanyam
University of California: Los Angeles
BS, Computational and Systems Biology/ Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
PI: Hani Goodarzi
John Matthew Suntay
San Francisco State University
BS, Biology (Cell and Molecular Biology)
PI: Jessica DeLeon, Lorenzo Pasquini
Chris Thompson
Harvey Mudd College
BS, Computer Science
PI: Andrew Yang, Hani Goodarzi
First Year
Runa Cheng
UCSF MSTP In Progress
Swarthmore College
BA, Biology; Minor in Chemistry and Statistics
PI: Andrew Yang
Carlos Gomez
San Francisco State University
B.S., Microbiology
Alexander Ho
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
MS, Computer Science
Rice University
BS, Statistics
PI: Jan Christoph
Research summary: Machine learning for latent process estimation and model discovery from imaging data
Sara Lichtarge
Washington University, St. Louis
B.S., Computer Science, Biology (Concentration in Computational Biology & Genomics)
Enock Niyonkuru
Trinity College
BSC, Computer Science
Faye Orcales
San Francisco State University
BS, Cell and Molecular Biology
Akshita Saxena
University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Ethan Shurberg
Brandeis University
BS, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science
Rayo Suseno
University of California, Los Angeles
MS, Bioengineering
BS, Bioengineering
Izabella Zamora
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ME, Electrical Engineering
BS, Electrical Engineering