Pollard Lab

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!

Postdoc Patrick Bradley’s work on phylogenetic regression to identify microbiome genes associated with colonizing the human gut appeared in PLoS Computational Biology and was featured in a press release.

Katie was named one of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health’s 75 Most Influential Alumni.

Katie Pollard and other Women Who Lead in Life Sciences speak out on challenges for female scientists.

Gladstone launched a new Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology with Katie Pollard as Director. Check out the press release and story in the SF Business Times.

We combined massively parallel reporter assays with stem cell technology to show that nearly half of all Human Accelerated Regions (HARs) function as gene regulatory enhancers in human and chimpanzee neurons. We also detected differences in enhancer activity between human and chimpanzee HAR sequences, including interactions between nearby mutations. Check out the pre-print, story in Scientific American, and press release.

Postdoc Geoff Fudenberg is awarded a travel grant to attend the 2018 Keystone Chromatin Meeting.

Postdoc Josh Ladau is a major contributor to the Earth Microbiome Project manuscript. Read the Press Release.

Katie Pollard speaks about microbiome-aware precision medicine at the World Conference of Science Journalists.

Postdoc Amber Paasch is awarded the IRACDA Fellowship from UCSF.

Katie Pollard talks about strain level analysis of the human microbiome in a Science Webinar.

Our study of temporal dynamics in the microbiome through inflammatory bowel disease onset and progression was published in mSystems. This was an interdisciplinary collaboration with the labs of Shomi Sanjabi and Tom Sharpton. Press release and more info here.

Graduate student Kathleen Keough is named a UCSF Discovery Fellow!