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Bootcamp is led by current BISB/BMI PhD students with help from many others!
Table of contents
- Bootcamp Instructors
- Program Chairs and Administration
- Guest Instructors
- Fellowships Panelists
- Internships Panelists
- Questions?
- Credits
Bootcamp Instructors
Bootcamp instructors curate Bootcamp’s content and teach the majority of modules.
Hratch Baghdassarian he/him
Email: hmbaghdassarian at ucsd.edu
5th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Nathan Lewis
Kiki Spaulding she/her
Email: kspaulding at ucsd.edu
2nd year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Graham McVicker
Lauryn Bruce she/her
Email: lbruce at ucsd.edu
3rd year BMI PhD student
Advisors: Benjamin Smarr and Lucila Ohno-Machado
Mike Cuoco he/him
Email: mcuoco at ucsd.edu
3rd year BISB PhD student
Advisors: Rusty Gage and Eran Mukamel
Program Chairs and Administration
Program chairs and administrators present information about program operations.
Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, MBA
Email: lohnomachado at health.ucsd.edu
Distinguished Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
BMI Graduate Program Chair
Terry Gaasterland, PhD
Email: tgaasterland at ucsd.edu
Professor of Computational Biology and Genomics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
BISB Graduate Program Chair
Fran Perez Estrada she/her
Email: fperezestrada at ucsd.edu
BISB Graduate Program Coordinator
Elizabeth Soos
Email: esoos at ucsd.edu
BISB/Bioengineering Student Affairs Manager
Guest Instructors
Guest instructors lead modules on specialized topics.
Arya Massarat he/him
Email: amassara at ucsd.edu
3rd year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Melissa Gymrek
Sessions:
Clarence Mah he/him
Email: ckmah at ucsd.edu
4th year BISB PhD student
Advisors: Gene Yeo and Hannah Carter
Sessions:
Erick Armingol he/him
Email: earmingol at ucsd.edu
5th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Nathan Lewis
Sessions:
Gibraan (Gibs) Rahman he/him
Email: grahman at ucsd.edu
5th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Rob Knight
Sessions:
Hannah Mummey she/her
Email: hmummey at ucsd.edu
3rd year BISB PhD student, GBIC President
Advisor: Kyle Gaulton
Sessions:
Hannah Carter
Email: hkcarter at ucsd.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Sessions:
Jocelyne Bruand she/her
Email: jocelyne.bruand at inscripta.com
BISB Alumni, Senior Staff Scientist at Inscripta
Sessions:
Kathleen Dorrestein she/her
Email: kdorrestein at health.ucsd.edu
Staff Research Associate, Dorrestein Lab
Sessions:
Owen Chapman he/him
Email: ochapman at ucsd.edu
6th year BMI PhD student
Advisors: Jill Mesirov and Lukas Chavez
Sessions:
Pratibha Jagannatha she/her
Email: pjaganna at ucsd.edu
4th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Gene Yeo
Sessions:
Fellowships Panelists
These students will sit on a panel for Q&A during the Fellowships session
Arya Massarat he/him
Email: amassara at ucsd.edu
3rd year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Melissa Gymrek
Fellowship: NSF-GRFP
Carlos Guzman he/him
Email: cag104 at ucsd.edu
6th year BISB PhD student
Advisors: Sven Heinz and Chris Benner
Fellowships: NSF-GRFP, Ford Fellowship, and NIH F31
Owen Chapman he/him
Email: ochapman at ucsd.edu
6th year BMI PhD student
Advisors: Jill Mesirov and Lukas Chavez
Fellowship: NIH F31
Yue Qin she/her
Email: y8qin at ucsd.edu
6th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Trey Ideker
Fellowship: NCI F99/K00
Internships Panelists
These students will sit on a panel for Q&A during the Internships session
Charlene Hsuan-lin Her she/her
Email: hsher at ucsd.edu
4th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Gene Yeo
Internship: Guardant Health
George Armstrong he/him
Email: garmstro at eng.ucsd.edu
BISB Alumnus, Graduated 2022
Advisor: Rob Knight
Internships: NVIDIA and Thermo Fisher Scientific
Jonathan Pekar he/him
Email: jepekar at ucsd.edu
5th year BMI PhD student
Advisor: Joel Werthiem
Internship: Vir Biotech
Owen Chapman he/him
Email: ochapman at ucsd.edu
6th year BMI PhD student
Advisors: Jill Mesirov and Lukas Chavez
Internship: Microsoft, Software Engineering intern
TJ Sears he/him
Email: tsears at ucsd.edu
2nd year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Hannah Carter
Internship: Genentech
Questions?
For questions about bootcamp, please contact the bootcamp instructors!
For questions about student life feel free to message to the BISB Student Discord. You should have received an invite link via email. Our discord server is entirely student-run, and you can find people from different labs, years, and program tracks. It is a great informal resource to chat with fellow students.
Since the BISB Student Discord is completely student-run, we ask that you do not share the invite link with faculty or staff members.
For questions about specifics of the program and program requirements, please contact our wonderful program coordinator, Fran Perez Estrada! Another helpful contact, especially for financial matters, is Elizabeth Soos, the Student Affairs Manager for our program and the Department of Bioengineering.
Credits
Bootcamp content is either newly generated or adapted from previous years’ work. We would like to credit past bootcamp instructors for their contributions, much of which the current content is based on.
- Michelle Ragsac, 2020-2021
- Cameron Martino, 2020-2021
- Owen Chapman, 2019-2020
- Jessica Zhou, 2018-2019