Katherine Pollard
Katherine Snowden Pollard is a Professor at the Gladstone Institute of data science and biotechnology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).[1][3][4] She was awarded Fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2020 for outstanding contributions to computational biology and bioinformatics.[5][6]
Katie Pollard | |
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| Born | Katherine Snowden Pollard |
| Alma mater | Pomona College (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD) |
| Awards | ISCB Fellow (2020) |
| 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] |
| Influences | Sandrine Dudoit David Haussler |
| Website | gladstone |
Education
Pollard received a B.A. 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.[7][2]
Career and research
Pollard is a leader in developing statistical models and open-source software for big data, especially in genomics.[8][9] Pollard and her team pioneered the identification the fastest-evolving regions of the human genome, known as human accelerated regions (HARs).[10][11] Pollard has also designed methods to study the human microbiome[12][13] 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 Berkeley and worked with David Haussler at Santa Cruz.[10]
References
- Katherine Pollard publications indexed by Google Scholar
- 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)
- "ISCB Fellows". www.iscb.org.
- "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. 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.
- 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. 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. doi:10.1038/nature11209. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 3377744. PMID 22699610.