Current Genomics Scholars
Ikenna Anigbogu
2019 – 2020
Biomolecular Engineering, Bioinformatics
Project Title: Development of a Diagnostic to Analyze Clinical Samples on the Nanopore
Faculty Mentor: Mark Akeson (Akeson Lab)
Pablo Alvarez
2019 – 2020
Microbiology, Environmental Toxicology
Project Title: Investigating the role of the YmoA histone-like protein in pathogenic Yersinia
Faculty Mentor: Victoria Auerbuch Stone (Auerbuch-Stone Lab)
Research Mentor: David Balderas
Carlos Arevalo
2019 – 2020
Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, Bioinformatics
Project Title: Characterization and validation of novel transcript isoforms associated with U2AF1 S34F mutations in lung adenocarcinoma.
Faculty Mentor: Angela Brooks (Brooks Lab)
Research Mentor: Cameron Soulette/Eva Robinson
Kavya Aswadhati
2019 – 2020
Bioinformatics and Critical Race, Ethnic Studies
Project Title: Data-mining and Phylogenetic Approaches to Characterize the Stability of Wolbachia Infections in Malarial Mosquitoes
Faculty Mentor: Russ Corbett-Detig (Corbett-Detig Lab)
Research Mentor: Paloma Medina
Stefanie Brizuela
2019 – 2020
Biomolecular Engineering, Bioinformatics
Project Title: Determining the effects of mutations in SMARCA4 on alternative splicing in lung adenocarcinoma
Faculty Mentor: Angela Brooks (Brooks Lab)
Research Mentor: Brandon Saint-John
Sydney Renee Fregoso
2019 – 2020
Human Biology
Project Title: The influence of parental environment on future generational phenotypes
Faculty Mentor: Upasna Sharma (Sharma Lab)
Patrick Fuller
2019 – 2020
Human Biology
Project Title: Characterizing Genetic Suppressors of Spt5 Cs- for Applications to Gene Therapy
Faculty mentor: Grant Hartzog (Hartzog Lab)
Research Mentor: Grant Hartzog
Gifti Gemeda
2019 – 2020
Faculty Mentor: David Haussler/Sofie Salama (Haussler/Salama Lab)
Research Mentor: Gary Mantalas
Azuah Lucrecia Gonzalez
2019 – 2020
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Project Title: The Monitoring Yersinia Type III Secretion System in vitro
Faculty Mentor: Victoria Auerbuch Stone (Auerbuch-Stone Lab)
Research Mentor: Katherine Schubert
Alinne Gonzalez Armenta
2019 – 2020
Biomolecular Engineering, Bioinformatics
Project Title: Exploring the mechanisms of intron transposition
Faculty Mentor: Manny Ares (Ares Lab)
Research Mentor: Jen Quick-Cleveland
Alexander Hoefler
2019 – 2020
Biomolecular Engineering, Bioinformatics
Project Title: Quality assessment of cerebral cortex organoids using immunofluorescence and RNA expression measurements
Faculty Mentor: David Haussler/Sofie Salama (Haussler/Salama Lab)
Research Mentor: Ryan Hoffman
Vanessa Howland
2019 – 2020
Biology
Project Title: Investigating whether maternal choline supplementation protects against alterations in epigenetically regulated gene expression caused by developmental Manganese exposure
Faculty Mentor: Donald R Smith (Smith Lab)
Research Mentor: Shanna Howard
Preet Kaur
2019 – 2020
Biomolecular Engineering, Bioinformatics
Project Title: Investigating Functional Genomics and Inferring Distribution of Fitness Effects of Intron Gain in the pelagic tunicate species Oikopleura dioica
Faculty Mentor: Russ Corbett-Detig (Corbett-Detig Lab)
Beagan Nguy
2019 – 2020
Bioinformatics
Project Title: The Human Cell Atlas Initiative
Faculty Mentor: Jim Kent (Kent Lab)
Research Mentor: Parisa Nejad
Linh Thuy Nguyen
2019 – 2020
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Project Title: Characterization of a Genetic Suppressor of a Histone H3 Mutations That Perturbs Transcription Elongation in Budding Yeast
Faculty Mentor: Grant Hartzog (Hartzog Lab)
Research Mentor: Grant Hartzog
Serafina Nieves
2019 – 2020
Biomolecular Engineering, Bioinformatics
Project Title: Functional consequences of horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to arthropods
Faculty Mentor: Russ Corbett-Detig (Corbett-Detig Lab)
Research Mentor: Russ Corbett-Detig
Taylor Real
2019 – 2020
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Project Title: Optimizing Molecular Inversion Probes to Characterize Human Specific Neurodevelopmental Genes
Faculty Mentors: David Haussler/Sofie Salama (Haussler/Salama Lab)
Research Mentor: Gary Mantalas
Jackie Roger
2019 – 2020
Research Project Title: Predicting the Accuracy of Gene Expression Measurement Assays for Clinical Applications using UMEND (uniquely mapped, exonic, non-duplicate) reads
Faculty Mentor: Olena Vaske (Vaske Lab)
Research Mentor: Holly Beale
Shamari Waller
2019 – 20201
Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: David Haussler/Sofie Salama (Haussler/Salama Lab)
Research Mentor: Kristof Tigyi