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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
- 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.
Daniel Halmos he/him
Email: dhalmos at ucsd.edu
3rd year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Trey Ideker
Sessions:
Jade Wang she/her
Email: jaw047 at ucsd.edu
2nd year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Joel Wertheim
Sessions:
Jonathan Kirkland he/him
Email: jokirkland at ucsd.edu
3rd year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Rob Knight
Sessions:
Karen Pu she/her
Email: kcpu at ucsd.edu
2nd year BISB PhD student
Advisor: Gene Yeo
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:
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
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
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.