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American biotechnologist
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).
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[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.
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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.
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Career and research
Pollard is a leader in developing
statistical models and
open-source software for
big data, especially in
genomics.
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[10] Pollard and her team pioneered the identification and named the fastest-evolving regions of the
human genome, known as
human accelerated regions (HARs).
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[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.
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Honors and awards
- Member,
National Academy of Medicine
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- 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.
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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
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Katherine Pollard publications indexed by
Google Scholar
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Katherine Pollard at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
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Katherine Pollard publications from
Europe PubMed Central
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Katherine Pollard publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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"Investigator Competition 2021". CZ Biohub. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
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"ISCB Fellows". www.iscb.org. Archived from
the original on 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
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"February 19, 2020: ISCB Congratulates and Introduces the 2020 Class of Fellows!". www.iscb.org.
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^ 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.
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^ 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.
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^ 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.
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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.
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^ 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.
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^ 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.
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^ 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.
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^ Frasure, Hannah (18 November 2022).
"Scientist Katie Pollard PO '95 nationally recognized for groundbreaking biology research". The Student Life. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
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