Pollard Lab

Katie Pollard is elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Read the story.

Kathleen Keough talks about her PNAS paper using comparative genomics to predict animal susceptibility to COVID-19 on ABC7 News.

Congratulations to Alex Pico on receiving the Distinguished Achievement in Scientific Leadership award from Gladstone!

Kudos to graduate student Maureen Pittman on receiving the NIH F31 fellowship for her work on genetic determinants of congenital heart defects!

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!

Kathleen Keough participated in the Skype A Scientist program with a 12th Grade science class in Canada.

We celebrated Ada Lovelace Day. Katie shared her experiences as a woman in data science in this interview.

We were awarded an NIH grant to join the 4D Nucleome consortium with the Bruneau lab. Read about the project here.

Congratulations to Luis Diaz for being a peer mentor in the SF Build / Metro College Success program!

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.

Our enhancer atlas of the developing human brain was published in Cell. Read the story.

The lab participated in ShutDownSTEM and other anti-racism protests.

Katie gave a Gladstone Newton Series Webinar about exploring human microbes through big data.

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.

Read about data science efforts at Gladstone!

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.

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.

Read about our lab’s contributions to team science to elucidate causes of heart disease.

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.

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.