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]
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 |
Education edit
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 edit
Pollard is a leader in developing statistical models and open-source software for big data, especially in genomics.[9][10] Pollard and her team pioneered the identification and named 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, these studies set the stage for using metagenomics in precision medicine.
Prior to working at 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 edit
- Member, National Academy of Medicine[15]
- Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. 2021.
- Fellow, International Society for Computational Biology. 2020.
- Gladstone Institutes Mentoring Award. 2019.
- Women Who Lead in the Life Sciences. SF Business Times. 2018.
- 75 Most Influential Alumni, UC Berkeley School of Public Health. 2018.
- Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. 2017–present.
- Fellow, California Academy of Sciences. 2013–present.
- Breakthrough Biomedical Research Award, UCSF. 2009–2010.
- Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 2008–2010.
- NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIGMS/NIH NRSA. 2003–2005.
- Evelyn Fix Prize, Chin Long Chiang Biostatistics Student of the Year, UC Berkeley. 2003.
- Valedictorian, High Scholarship Prize, Math Prize, Anthropology Prize, Phi Beta Kappa Award, Pomona College. 1995.
- Sophomore Math Prize, Pomona College. 1993.
References edit
- ^ a b Katherine Pollard publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b Katherine Pollard at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Katherine Pollard publications from Europe PubMed Central
- ^ Katherine Pollard publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ "Investigator Competition 2021". CZ Biohub. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
- ^ "ISCB Fellows". www.iscb.org. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
- ^ "February 19, 2020: ISCB Congratulates and Introduces the 2020 Class of Fellows!". www.iscb.org.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Frasure, Hannah (18 November 2022). "Scientist Katie Pollard PO '95 nationally recognized for groundbreaking biology research". The Student Life. Retrieved 2 December 2022.