Katherine Pollard

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Katie Pollard
Born
Katherine Snowden Pollard
Alma mater Pomona College (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD)
Awards ISCB Fellow (2020)
CZ Biohub Investigator (2017-present)
Scientific career
Fields Evolutionary genomics
Functional genomics [1]
Institutions Gladstone Institutes
University of California, San Francisco
University of California, Davis
University of California, Santa Cruz
Thesis Computationally intensive statistical methods for analysis of gene expression data  (2003)
Doctoral advisor Mark van der Laan [2]
Notable students Samantha Riesenfeld
Tony Capra
Website gladstone.org/people/katherine-pollard OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Katherine Snowden Pollard is the Director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). [1] [3] [4] She is a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. [5] She was awarded Fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2020 and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2021 for outstanding contributions to computational biology and bioinformatics. [6] [7]

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Education

Pollard received a B.A. summa cum laude in anthropology and mathematics from Pomona College and an M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). She was awarded a Ph.D. in 2003 from UC Berkeley for research supervised by Mark van der Laan. [8] [2]

Career and research

Pollard is a leader in developing statistical models and open-source software for big data, particularly in genomics. [9] [10] She and her team pioneered the identification of the fastest-evolving regions of the human genome, known as human accelerated regions (HARs). [11] [12] Pollard has also designed methods to study the human microbiome [13] [14] and other microbial communities, setting the stage for the use of metagenomics in precision medicine.

Before joining UCSF, she held a postdoctoral research position with Sandrine Dudoit at UC Berkeley and worked with David Haussler at UC Santa Cruz. [11]

Honors and awards

References

  1. 1 2 Katherine Pollard publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. 1 2 Katherine Pollard at the Mathematics Genealogy Project OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. ↑ Katherine Pollard publications from Europe PubMed Central
  4. ↑ Katherine Pollard publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ↑ "Investigator Competition 2021". CZ Biohub. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  6. ↑ "ISCB Fellows". www.iscb.org. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  7. ↑ "February 19, 2020: ISCB Congratulates and Introduces the 2020 Class of Fellows!". www.iscb.org.
  8. ↑ Pollard, Katherine Snowden (2003). Computationally intensive statistical methods for analysis of gene expression data. berkeley.edu (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. OCLC   937442296. ProQuest   305339168.
  9. ↑ The Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium (2005). "Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome". Nature. 437 (7055): 69–87. Bibcode:2005Natur.437...69.. doi: 10.1038/nature04072 . ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   16136131.
  10. ↑ Pollard, K. S.; Hubisz, M. J.; Rosenbloom, K. R.; Siepel, A. (2009). "Detection of nonneutral substitution rates on mammalian phylogenies". Genome Research. 20 (1): 110–121. doi:10.1101/gr.097857.109. ISSN   1088-9051. PMC   2798823 . PMID   19858363.
  11. 1 2 Pollard KS, Salama SR, King B, Kern AD, Dreszer T, Katzman S, Siepel A, Pedersen JS, Bejerano G, Baertsch R, Rosenbloom KR, Kent J, Haussler D (2006). "Forces shaping the fastest evolving regions in the human genome". PLOS Genetics . 2 (10): e168. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020168 . PMC   1599772 . PMID   17040131.
  12. ↑ Kostka D, Hubisz MJ, Siepel A, Pollard KS (2012). "The role of GC-biased gene conversion in shaping the fastest evolving regions of the human genome". Molecular Biology and Evolution . 29 (3): 1047–57. doi:10.1093/molbev/msr279. PMC   3278478 . PMID   22075116.
  13. ↑ The Human Microbiome Project Consortium (2012). "Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome". Nature. 486 (7402): 207–214. Bibcode:2012Natur.486..207T. doi:10.1038/nature11234. ISSN   0028-0836. PMC   3564958 . PMID   22699609.
  14. ↑ The Human Microbiome Project Consortium (2012). "A framework for human microbiome research". Nature. 486 (7402): 215–221. Bibcode:2012Natur.486..215T. doi:10.1038/nature11209. ISSN   0028-0836. PMC   3377744 . PMID   22699610.
  15. ↑ "2023 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  16. ↑ Frasure, Hannah (18 November 2022). "Scientist Katie Pollard PO '95 nationally recognized for groundbreaking biology research". The Student Life. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  17. ↑ "Fellow Directory - AIMBE" . Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  18. ↑ "ISCB Fellows". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  19. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Katie Pollard | Gladstone Institutes". gladstone.org. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  20. ↑ "People - CZ Biohub SF". CZ Biohub San Francisco. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  21. ↑ "Academy Fellows". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  22. ↑ "Chemist, Biostatistician Are Sloan Fellows". UC Davis. 2008-02-22. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
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