Katie Pollard, Ph.D.

Katie Pollard received my Ph.D. and M.A. from UC Berkeley, Division of Biostatistics under the supervision of Mark van der Laan. My research at Berkeley included developing computationally intensive statistical methods for analysis of microarray data with applications in cancer biology. After graduating, She did a postdoc at UC Berkeley with Sandrine Dudoit. Pollard developed Bioconductor open-source software packages for clustering and multiple hypothesis testing. In 2003, she began a comparative genomics NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship in the labs of David Haussler and Todd Lowe in the Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Pollar was part of the Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium that published the sequence of the Chimp Genome, and used this sequence to identify the fastest-evolving regions in the human genome. In 2005, she joined the faculty at the UC Davis Genome Center and Department of Statistics. Pollard moved to Gladstone/UCSF in Fall 2008, where she is the Director of the Institute for Data Science and Biotechnology focused on emerging technologies and informatics.

Honors
Member of the National Academy of Medicine
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow of the International Society of Computational Biology
Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences