Pollard Lab

Congratulations Annamarie (Pre-doc) and Xiaofan (Post-doc) for being award the PhRMA Fellowship!

We are excited to start work on a new program project grant on 3D genome folding and epigenetics in cardiac developmental gene regulatory networks.

Gladstone’s science was featured on Headline News. Watch the long and short versions of the video.

Katie Pollard is the new director of the UCSF Bioinformatics Graduate Program. Read the story.

Happy 40th Anniversary Gladstone! Katie was proud to speak about “Design for Inference” at our celebratory symposium.

Congratulations to the lab on publishing our 20th paper this year! Let’s keep up the amazing work.

We are founding members of the new UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine. Read more about the mission in this story.

Our assembly and comparative genomics analysis of the Komodo dragon genome revealed positive selection and gene family expansions associated with this lizard’s amazing traits. Check out the paper, story, and New York Times coverage.

Hassan was featured in a podcast about DNA shape and our algorithm ShapeMF.

We published a manuscript about sequencing the Komodo dragon genome and using comparative genomics to understand the genetic basis of this species’ unique traits. Check out the story.

We are organizing a Microbiome Symposium at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub on September 30, 2019.

Katie Pollard was featured in the podcast Human about different perspectives on what makes us human.

Our manuscript on discovering >2000 new human microbiome species and their disease associations through metagenome-assembled-genomes appeared in Nature. Check out the Press release.

Katie Pollard co-authors an article about the contradictions and complications of restricted-use genomic data in public repositories, promoting fully open data and thoughtful attribution for data producers.

Seth Shipman joins the Gladstone Institute of Data Science & Biotechnology. The SF Business Times covers the news. Welcome Seth!

Postdoc Jason Shi is Visitor of the Week at Cold Spring Harbor, where he attended the Biological Data Science Meeting.

Alex Pico and colleagues hosted a fantastic WikiPathways Summit 2018.

Congratulations to postdoc Geoff Fudenberg for winning the best talk at the Northern California Computational Biology meeting!

The lab of Jennifer Doudna and Christof Fellmann joins our team at the Gladstone Institutes to develop CRISPR technologies for therapeutic human genome editing. The story is here.

Larry Berkelhammer makes a generous donation to Gladstone to support childcare for postdocs and others. Check out the press release. We were proud to be part of this!