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.

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.

The 4D Nucleome Project posted profiles of Katie and other female investigators as a program highlight.

Katie was featured in a UCSF short documentary for International Women’s Day.

We were honored by a gift from the L.K. Whittier Foundation that awards Katie with a named directorship of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology.

Sean Whalen’s recent papers dissected the function and evolution of Human Accelerated Regions with machine learning and massively parallel reporter assays. Read the about the Neuron study here and our Annual Review here. His approach was covered in a story from the Simons Foundation.

Graduate student Maureen Pittman was chosen as a finalist for the Epstein Award for excellence in human genetics research and gave a great talk at ASHG 2022!

Our lab was honored by Katie being elected into the National Academy of Medicine! Read the Gladstone story and UCSF announcement.