The Pollard Lab and Gladstone Bioinformatics Core were awarded NHLBI funds to study the epigenetics of heart development in a collaborative project with Benoit Bruneau and others. The Gladstone team is part of a nation-wide consortium called Bench to Bassinet.
December 2009
Katie Pollard was featured in a John Rubin documentary entitled What Darwin Never Knew, that aired December 29 on NOVA. She is featured in an accompanying on-line interivew about The DNA of Human Evolution. Watch the episode.
October 2009
The Gladstone Institutes Science for Life lecture featured Katie Pollard talking about human evolution and Erin Wang playing cello pieces from different periods in the evolution of the instrument.
October 2009
Katie Pollard appeared on the German science TV program Quarks & Co.
July 2009
Katie Pollard and Nadav Ahituv received a UCSF Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research (PBBR) Integrative Research Award. The one-year grant supports collaborative, interdisciplinary research on a high-risk topic.
June 2009
Katie Pollard appeared on Are We Alone?, a SETI Radio program that aired on Public Radio station KALW.
May 2009
Our research about human-chimp genetic differences was featured in the National Institutue of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Magazine Computing Life and the NIH Biomedical Beat news digest.
May 2009
Katie Pollard’s article entitled What Makes Us Human? was the Scientific American cover story in May 2009. Our comparative genomics research was featured on ABC News (click on second photo to play video).