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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.
Avery Pong he/him
Email: avpong at ucsd.edu
4th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Gene Yeo
Cemil Can Ali Marandi ("JJ") he/him
Email: calimarandi at ucsd.edu
4th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Ferhat Ay
Molly Sacks she/her
Email: msacks at ucsd.edu
4th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Jonathan Sebat
Zane Koch he/him
Email: zkoch at ucsd.edu
5th BISB PhD student
Advisor: Trey Ideker
Program Chairs and Administration
Program chairs and administrators present information about program operations.
Amy Sitapati, PhD
Email: asitapati at ucsd.edu
Clinical Professor, Medicine
DBMI Director
Terry Gaasterland, PhD
Email: tgaasterland at ucsd.edu
Professor of Computational Biology and Genomics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
BISB Graduate Program Chair
Guest Instructors
Guest instructors lead modules on specialized topics.
Alex Wenzel he/him
Email: atwenzel at ucsd.edu
4th year BMI PhD student
Advisor: Jill Mesirov
Sessions:
Arya Massarat he/him
Email: amassara at ucsd.edu
4th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Melissa Gymrek
Sessions:
Jessica Au she/her
Email: jeau at ucsd.edu
3rd year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Ludmil Alexandrov
Sessions:
Karen Pu she/her
Email: kcpu at ucsd.edu
2nd year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Gene Yeo
Sessions:
Kathleen Dorrestein she/her
Email: kdorrestein at health.ucsd.edu
Staff Research Associate, Dorrestein Lab
Sessions:
Keegan Flanagan he/him
Email: keflanagan at ucsd.edu
3rd year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Gene Yeo
Sessions:
Kiki Spaulding she/her
Email: kspaulding at ucsd.edu
5th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Louise Laurent
Sessions:
Mike Cuoco he/him
Email: mcuoco at ucsd.edu
4th year BISB PhD student
Advisors: Rusty Gage and Eran Mukamel
Nathan Lewis, PhD
Email: n4lewis at ucsd.edu
Professor, Pediatrics and Bioengineering
Sessions:
Scarlett Qian she/her
Email: geqian at ucsd.edu
5th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Trey Ideker
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
4th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Melissa Gymrek
Fellowship: NSF-GRFP
Carlos Guzman he/him
Email: cag104 at ucsd.edu
BISB Alumnus, Graduated 2023
Advisors: Sven Heinz and Chris Benner
Fellowships: NSF-GRFP, Ford Fellowship, and NIH F31
Denghui Chen he/him
Email: dec037 at health.ucsd.edu
4th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Abraham Palmer
Hyrum Eddington he/him
Email: heddington at ucsd.edu
3rd year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Kit Curtius
Mike Cuoco he/him
Email: mcuoco at ucsd.edu
4th year BISB PhD student
Advisors: Rusty Gage and Eran Mukamel
Fellowship: NSF-GRFP
Internships Panelists
These students will sit on a panel for Q&A during the Internships session
Aaron Boussina he/him
Email: aeboussina at ucsd.edu
3rd year BMI PhD student
Advisor: Shamim Nemati
Internships: Genentech and Illumina
Eric Kofman he/him
Email: ekofman at ucsd.edu
5th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Gene Yeo
Internship: Element Biosciences
George Armstrong he/him
Email: garmstro at eng.ucsd.edu
BISB Alumnus, Graduated 2022
Advisor: Rob Knight
Internships: NVIDIA and Thermo Fisher Scientific
TJ Sears he/him
Email: tsears at ucsd.edu
3rd year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Hannah Carter
Internship: Genentech
Xingzhao Wen she/her
Email: xzwen at ucsd.edu
5th year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Sheng Zhong
Internship: Vertex pharmaceuticals
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 the Student Affairs Manager Vanessa Hollingsworth (bisbsupport@ucsd.edu and cc vkhollin@ucsd.edu).
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.
- Mike Cuoco, 2021-2022
- Michelle Ragsac, 2020-2021
- Cameron Martino, 2020-2021
- Owen Chapman, 2019-2020
- Jessica Zhou, 2018-2019
Past bootcamp instructors from 2023 & 2024 also contributed to the foundation of this content.