Kudos to graduate student Maureen Pittman on receiving the NIH F31 fellowship for her work on genetic determinants of congenital heart defects!
DECEMBER 2020
Lab alumnus Hassan Samee was recognized for his excellent teaching by the Baylor College of Medicine Graduate School. Congratulations to Hassan on receiving the Outstanding Lecturer award!
OCTOBER 2020
Kathleen Keough participated in the Skype A Scientist program with a 12th Grade science class in Canada.
OCTOBER 2020
We celebrated Ada Lovelace Day. Katie shared her experiences as a woman in data science in this interview.
OCTOBER 2020
We were awarded an NIH grant to join the 4D Nucleome consortium with the Bruneau lab. Read about the project here.
SEPTEMBER 2020
Congratulations to Luis Diaz for being a peer mentor in the SF Build / Metro College Success program!
JULY 2020
Reuben Thomas is leading an effort to predict clinical outcomes in HIV and COVID-19 with machine learning applied to blood biomarkers and genomics. Read the story.
June 2020
Our enhancer atlas of the developing human brain was published in Cell. Read the story.
JUNE 2020
The lab participated in ShutDownSTEM and other anti-racism protests.
MAY 2020
Katie gave a Gladstone Newton Series Webinar about exploring human microbes through big data.
May 2020
Katie is co-author on an op/ed piece in the SF Chronicle about the impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on scientists without childcare and schools.
APRIL 2020
Read about data science efforts at Gladstone!
APRIL 2020
Kathleen Keough did an evolutionary analysis that predicts a broad host range of SARS-COV-2 across vertebrates, suggesting humans could infect endangered species and domesticated animals. Read the pre-print.
MARCH 2020
We’re very proud of the work Alex Pico and colleagues are doing to develop network based data resources for COVID-19 research. Read about it here.
MARCH 2020
Read about our lab’s contributions to team science to elucidate causes of heart disease.
Winter 2020
Katie was selected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology recognizing the lab’s outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics! Read the story here.
MARCH 2020
On March 5, 2020, Katie will be speaking at an Exploratorium After Dark event BioFutures: Exploring Human Microbes Through Big Data. Detail and tickets here.
FEBRUARY 2020
DECEMBER 2019
We are excited to start work on a new program project grant on 3D genome folding and epigenetics in cardiac developmental gene regulatory networks.