Pollard Lab

Read about AI guided science at Gladstone and our approach to identifying causal non-coding variants! Watch the video.

Katie weighs in on sequence-to-function modeling in the New York Times.

Katie was interviewed about the lab’s work for a story in the Potrero View local paper!

We predicted a gene on chromosome 21 contributing to cardiac disease in individuals with Down Syndrome, and the Srivastava lab validated it. Read the story or watch the video!

Katie and colleagues discuss how our understanding of human-chimp DNA differences is evolving with the increasing number of complete genome sequences for both species. Read the story!

Before heading off to her new faculty position at Oregon State, Zhirui Hu used her CellWalker modeling approach to dissect regulatory pathways in brain vascular cells in collaboration with Andrew Yang’s group. Read the story!

Our CellWalker2 manuscript appeared today in Cell Genomics! Read the story.

Our student-led collaboration on quantifying changes in chromatin interaction maps was published in Nature Methods! Read the Q&A with Katie G and Katie P here.

Katie was featured in a series on UC Santa Cruz alumni celebrating David Haussler and the UCSC Genome Browser. Watch the video and read about Santa Cruz from Katie’s perspective.

Our evolutionary medicine research was featured in the UCSF Magazine!

Katie was ranked among the most highly cited researchers in the world!

Katie was honored as one of the 2024 Most Influential Womean in Bay Area Business!

Our Biswas Center for Transformational Computational Cancer Biology was featured on ABC7 News!

The PsychENCODE paper package came out in Science! Read the story about our manuscript.

Katie was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science! Read about it here.

Pollard lab students Shu Zhang and Cindy Pino received the NSF Fellowship. Way to go!

Congratulations to Barbara Engelhardt in our institute for being elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology! Read about it here.

The Biswas Family Foundation awarded us $5M for a new Center for Transformational Cancer Computational Biology that will use machine learning to accelerated discovery of genetic mechanisms and optimization of personalized immune therapies for solid tumors. Read the story.

We received a $1.3M grant from the Keck Foundation to establish the Keck Center for Machine-Guided Functional Genomics!

Shiron Drusinsky received an NSF predoctoral fellowship!

Kathleen Keough’s paper showing that HARs are hijacked enhancers was published today in Science as part of the Zoonomia Consortium package. Our lab also contributed to two papers on evolutionary constraint, including Abigail Lind’s work on CMAH, an enzyme involved in viral infections. These discoveries were covered by the New York Times, Nature, NPR, Popular Science, and other media. Check out the press release.