Katherine S. Pollard, Ph.D.
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Statistics
UC Davis Genome Center
Graduate Groups
Population Biology,
Genetics, Biostatistics
Statistics, Applied Math
Center for Bioinformatics
& Molecular Biostatistics
Center for Population Biology
Sloan Research Fellow
Biography
I 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, I did a postdoc at UC Berkeley with Sandrine Dudoit. I developed Bioconductor open source software packages for clustering and multiple hypothesis testing. In November 2003, I began an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship in the labs of David Haussler and Todd Lowe in the Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. My projects involved comparative genomics, population genetics, and transcriptomics approaches to studying human and microbial genome sequences. I was part of the Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium that published the sequence of the Chimp Genome, and I used this sequence to identify the fastest evolving regions in the human genome. In November 2005, I came to UC Davis as an Assistant Professor. I am affiliated with the UC Davis Genome Center and Department of Statistics.