Genomics
We develop and apply
statistical methods for
the comparative analysis
of genomic data.
Current projects include
detecting fast evolving
regions of the primate
genome and studying
microbial diversity
using metagenomic data.
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August 2011: The Pollard lab received a 4-year $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical Biology Program to explore the human microbiome through development of novel convex geometry and comparative genomics approaches.
January 2011: Postdocs Tony Capra and Samantha Riesenfeld were both awarded Informatics Fellowships from the PhRMA Foundation.
June 2010: Katie Pollard appeared on Episode 2 of The Age of the Genome, a BBC Radio special hosted by Richard Dawkins. The lab was also featured on the UCSF Science Cafe.
April 2010: Our approach to studying human-chimp differences in non-coding DNA was featured in Ursula Goodenough's NPR Blog.
January 2010: The Pollard Lab and Gladstone Bioinformatics Core were awarded NHLBI funds to study the epigenetics of heart development in a collaborative project with Benoit Bruneau and others. The Gladstone team is part of a nation-wide consortium called Bench to Bassinet.
December 2009: Katie Pollard was featured in a John Rubin documentary entitled What Darwin Never Knew, that aired December 29 on NOVA. She is featured in an accompanying on-line interivew about The DNA of Human Evolution.
October 2009: The Gladstone Institutes Science for Life lecture featured Katie Pollard talking about human evolution and Erin Wang playing cello pieces from different periods in the evolution of the instrument.
October 2009: Katie Pollard appeared on the German science TV program Quarks & Co.
July 2009: Katie Pollard and Nadav Ahituv received a UCSF Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research (PBBR) Integrative Research Award. The one-year grant supports collaborative, interdisciplinary research on a high-risk topic.
June 2009: Katie Pollard appeared on Are We Alone?, a SETI Radio program that aired on Public Radio station KALW.
May 2009: Our research about human-chimp genetic differences was featured in the National Institutue of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Magazine Computing Life and the NIH Biomedical Beat news digest.
Katie Pollard's article entitled What Makes Us Human? was the Scientific American cover story in May 2009. Our comparative genomics research was featured on ABC News (click on second photo to play video).