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David Ardell | Associate Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology | 2008– | SE1392 | Gene expression mechanisms; Coevolution with genomes | |
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Francisco Gorrostieta Campos | QSB Doctoral Student | 2024– | SE1398 | Noncoding RNA Gene Family Evolution in Vertebrates | |
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Laiba Bajwa | UC Merced Undergraduate | 2024– | SE1398 | Generalized Smith-Kirby Iterated Learning Models (ILMs) for Language Evolution | |
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Brandon Barana | UC Merced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center (UROC) Scholar in the California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) Program | 2024– | SE1398 | Evolution of tRNA Structure-Function Maps | |
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Aleah Camacho | UCSF-ATOM Research Undergraduate Trainee | 2024– | SE1398 | Machine Learning Applications in Drug Discovery Targeting Kinases | |
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Sara Hussin | UCSF-ATOM Research Undergraduate Trainee | 2024– | SE1398 | Machine Learning Applications in Drug Discovery Targeting Kinases |
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Dr. Andrea Collins-Hed, Ph.D. | QSB Doctoral Graduate | 2016–2023 | Origins of Cells and Genetic Codes | ||
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Dr. Deepika Gunasekaran, Ph.D. | QSB Doctoral Graduate (co-advised with Prof. Clarissa Nobile) |
2020–2023 | Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nobile Lab | Evolution of the Biofilm Gene Regulatory Network in Candida species | |
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Dr. Fatemeh Hadi Nezhad, Ph.D. | QSB Doctoral Graduate | 2017–2023 | Bioinformatics Scientist at Cabaletta Bio | Algorithms to Compute Divergence of Functional Signatures and Orthology of tRNA Gene Arrays in Eukaryotes | |
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Dr. Rhondene Wint, Ph.D. | QSB Doctoral Graduate (co-advised with Prof. Mike Cleary) |
2017–2022 | Bioinformatics Scientist at Mammoth Biosciences | tRNA Expression Analysis and Genomics in Drosophila and Fungi | |
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Dr. Travis Lawrence, Ph.D. | QSB Doctoral Graduate | 2013–2018 | Senior Manager, Machine Learning at Pilot Flying J | Sequence Bioinformatics; Phloclassifiers; Plant Systematics | |
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Dr. Julie Phillips, Ph.D. | QSB Doctoral Graduate | 2008–2013 | Professor of Biology at Cumberland University | Evolution of the tRNA Structure Function Map in Drosophila | |
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Dr. Katherine Harris Amrine, Ph.D. | QSB Doctoral Graduate | 2008–2013 | Decision Science Manager at Meta | Structure and evolution of tRNA-protein interactions | |
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Dr. Wes Swingley, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Associate Alum | 2012-2013 | Associate Professor at Northern Illinois University | Origin of chloroplasts; Cyanobacterial tRNAs; Phylogeny with tRNA identity elements. | |
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Dr. Ingemar Ohlsson, Ph.D. | Masters Project Student (Molecular Biotechnology/Bioinformatics, Uppsala University, Sweden) Alum | 2013 | Researcher at Swedish Agricultural University (SLU) | Orthogonal tRNAs in model organisms | |
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Jennifer R. (Liberto) Elhawary | QSB Masters Student Alum | 2015-2016 | Research Data Analyst III at University of California, San Francisco |  |
Dr. Kristoffer Illergård | Masters Graduate from Uppsala University Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics | Data Scientist and Founding Partner at Reveal | Evolution of Protein Structure |
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Dr. Eva Freyhult | Graduate from Uppsala University, Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics | Now BILS (Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences) Expert | Information Theory and tRNA Class-Informative Features |
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Oscar Torres Gutierrez | QSB Doctoral Candidate NIH G-RISE I-BioSTeP Fellow |
2021–2023 | Normalization Methods for Proteomics | ||
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Ahmaree Sanders | Bioengineering Undergraduate | 2021–2022 | Biology and Evolution of Long Non-Coding RNAs | ||
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Christian Tran | Undergraduate Researcher | 2018–2019 | Stochastic models for aaRS-tRNA networks | ||
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Alejandro Hernandez | NIH Bridges-to-Doctorate Undergraduate Researcher from Fresno State | 2018– | tRNA gene organization in Nematodes | ||
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Cristhian Gutierrez Huerta | Third-Year Applied Mathematics and Molecular and Cellular Biology Double Major, JGI Summer Research Intern | Genome and Metagenome Classifiers (with Hark) | |||
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Harkanwalpreet Sodhi | Second-Year Bioengineering Major | Genome and Metagenome Classifiers (with Cris) | |||
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Kyle Kauffman | UC Merced Graduate in Molecular and Cellular Biology | Evolution of Complementarity | |||
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Noelle Anderson | Quantitative and Systems Biology first-year Rotation Student | Iterated Learning Models | |||
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Peter Becich | UC Merced/NSF Undergraduate Research Scholar in Computational Biology | Code-Message Coevolution | |||
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Claudia Canales | Fourth-Year Bioengineering Major | Duration Hidden Markov Models | |||
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Michael Frisch | Undergraduate Researcher in Bioengineering | Now Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics | Simulation of macromolecular interactions | ||
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Brian Stark | Undergrad | Code-Message Coevolution |