
Application Instructions (due April 30, 2021)
Fellowship support is centered on the transition from graduate school to postdoctoral fellowship. This period is important for trainees as they seek to develop their longer-term research interests, professional identities, and professional networks. However, relatively few avenues for support are available for trainees at this stage, as many funding opportunities for graduate training focus on the early part of graduate school, and many postdoc funding opportunities require the research relationship with the postdoctoral mentor to be well-established. We seek to address this gap in funding opportunities.
To enhance trainee experiences during the graduate-postdoc transition, we provide graduate students at the conclusion of their degree and beginning postdoctoral fellows with support in a number of forms. First, trainees receive financial support during the transition period, to support completion of their graduate degree or to launch their postdoctoral work. Second, conference travel support is provided in order to assist predoctoral fellows in planning for their postdoctoral experience and enable postdoctoral fellows to present their work and position themselves for job opportunities. Third, fellows are provided with opportunities to lead and participate in scientific activities in the Center, with the aims of advancing their own research, enhancing their professional skills, and developing meaningful scientific relationships with Center faculty and other trainees.
Submit fellowship application to stanfordcehg@stanford.edu (2021-22 applications due April 30, 2021, Letters due April 30, 2021).
2020-21 Fellows
Fellow | Pre- or Post- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position (N/A) |
Abreu, Clare | Post-Doctoral | Dmitri Petrov | |
Barnes, Elle | Post-Doctoral | Tad Fukami | |
Birzu, Gabriel | Post-Doctoral | Daniel Fisher | |
Chen, Heidi | Pre-Doctoral | Gill Bejerano and David Kingsley | |
Ferraro, Nicole | Pre-Doctoral | Stephen Montgomery | |
Hays, Michelle | Post-Doctoral | Gavin Sherlock | |
Mooney, Jazlyn | Post-Doctoral | Noah Rosenberg | |
Severson, Alissa | Pre-Doctoral | Noah Rosenberg | |
Sinnott-Armstrong, Nasa | Pre-Doctoral | Jonathan Pritchard | |
Weiss, Clemens | Post-Doctoral | Jonathan Pritchard |
2019-20 Fellows
Fellow | Pre- or Post- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position (N/A) |
Agoglia, Rachel | Pre-Doctoral | Hunter Fraser | |
Ebel, Emily | Pre-Doctoral | Petrov Lab | |
Fremin, Brayon | Pre-Doctoral | Bhatt Lab | |
Langdon, Quinn | Post-Doctoral | Schumer Lab | |
Simons, Yuval | Post-Doctoral | Pritchard Lab | |
Weiss, Carly | Post-Doctoral | Petrov Lab |
2018-19 Fellows
Fellow | Pre- or Post- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position (N/A) |
Agarwala, Atish | Pre-Doctoral | Daniel Fisher | |
Bogar, Laura | Pre-Doctoral | Kabir Peay | |
Hornburg, Daniel | Post-Doctoral | Michael Snyder | |
Li, Yuping | Pre-Doctoral | Gavin Sherlock & Dmitri Petrov | |
Mack, Katya | Post-Doctoral | Hunter Fraser | |
Popejoy, Alice | Post-Doctoral | Carlos Bustamante | |
Sanchez, Monica | Post-Doctoral | Dmitri Petrov | |
Song, Janet | Pre-Doctoral | David Kingsley | Postdoc, Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School |
Tamburini, Fiona | Pre-Doctoral | Ami Bhatt | Associate Scientist, Genentech |
2017-18 Fellows
Fellow | Post- or Pre- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position |
Endlich, Solomon | Postdoctoral | Gill Bejerano | Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics (SITP) |
Feder, Alison | Predoctoral | Dmitri Petrov | Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley |
Frank, Hannah | Postdoctoral | Scott Boyd | |
Greenbaum, Gili | Postdoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | |
Harpak, Arbel | Predoctoral | Jonathan Pritchard | Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University |
Jagadeesh, Karthik | Predoctoral | Gill Bejerano | |
Li, Chuan | Postdoctoral | Dmitri Petrov | |
Liu, Boxiang | Predoctoral | Stephen Montgomery | Research Scientist, Baidu USA |
Mehta, Rohan | Predoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | |
Morikawa, Megan | Predoctoral | Stephen Palumbi | Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Barbara and Iberostar Hotel & Resorts |
Herrera Paredes, Sur | Postdoctoral | Hunter Fraser | |
Telis, Natalie | Predoctoral | Jonathan Pritchard | Statistical Geneticist, AncestryDNA |
2016-17 Fellows
Fellow | Post- or Pre-Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position |
Boyer, Sebastien | Postdoctoral | Gavin Sherlock | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Genetics |
DeBoever, Chris | Postdoctoral | Jonathan Pritchard/Stephen Montgomery/Carlos Bustamante | Vice President of Platform, Data4Cure (San Diego) |
Deng, Tricia | Predoctoral | Billy Li | PhD Student, Stanford Genetics |
Gao, Ziyue | Postdoctoral | Jonathan Pritchard | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Genetics and Biology |
Goldberg, Amy | Predoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley (Nielsen Lab); Incoming Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke |
Greenblum, Sharon | Postdoctoral | Dmitri Petrov | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Biology |
Kim, Jaehee | Postdoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Biology |
Solari, Katie | Predoctoral | Liz Hadly | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Biology |
Ram, Yoav | Postdoctoral | Marcus Feldman | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Biology. Next, Senior Lecturer on Tenure-Track, the School of Computer Science at IDC Herzliya (Israel). |
York, Ryan | Predoctoral | Hunter Fraser | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Neurobiology |
Zappala, Zach | Predoctoral | Stephen Montgomery | Research Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Previously, Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital. |
2015-16 Fellows
Fellow | Post- or Pre- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position |
Behar, Hilla | Postdoctoral | Marcus Feldman | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Applied Mathematics |
Fresard, Laure | Postdoctoral | Stephen Montgomery | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Pathology |
Herissant, Lucas | Postdoctoral | Gavin Sherlock | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Genetics |
Jiang, Chao | Postdoctoral | Mike Snyder | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Genetics |
Kaplow, Irene | Predoctoral | Hunter Fraser and Anshul Kundaje | Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University |
Krishna Kumar, Siddharth | Predoctoral | Shripad Tuljapurkar | PhD Student, Stanford Mathematical Biology |
Letten, Andrew | Postdoctoral | Tadashi Fukami | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (Stouffer Lab) |
Li, Yang | Postdoctoral | Jonathan Pritchard | Assistant Professor of Genetic Medicine, University of Chicago |
McLaren, Michael | Predoctoral | Marcus Feldman | Postdoctoral Researcher, North Carolina State University |
Ravencraft, Alison | Predoctoral | Kabir Peay | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Arizona |
Priya Singh, Param | Postdoctoral | Anne Brunet | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Genetics |
Szabo, Linda | Predoctoral | Julia Salzman | Computational Biologist at Driver (Bay Area) |
Uricchio, Lawrence | Postdoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Biology |
Venkataram, Sandeep | Predoctoral | Dmitri Petrov | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, San Diego Biological Sciences |
2014-15 Fellows
Fellow | Post- or Pre- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position |
Alcala, Nicolas | Postdoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Postdoctoral Researcher, International Agency for Research on Cancer/ World Health Organization (IARC-WHO), Lyon, France |
Algee-Hewitt, Bridget | Postdoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Research Scientist, Stanford Biology |
Bay, Rachael | Predoctoral | Stephen Palumbi | NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Tropical Research, UCLA |
Bhaskar, Anand | Postdoctoral | Jonathan Pritchard | Data Scientist, 23andMe |
Garud, Nandita | Predoctoral | Dmitri Petrov | Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF Gladstones Institute. Previously, Data Science Intern at Intuit. |
Kolodny, Oren | Postdoctoral | Marcus Feldman | Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford Biology (Feldman Lab); next, Faculty Member at Hebrew University (Jerusalem) |
McFarland, Christopher | Postdoctoral | Dmitri Petrov | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Biology (Petrov Lab) |
McManus, Kimberly | Predoctoral | Carlos Bustamante |
Computational Biologist, 23andMe. Previously, Software Engineer in Machine Learning/Data Mining at LinkedIn. |
O'Brown, Natasha | Predoctoral | David Kingsley | Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School |
Rychkova, Anna | Postdoctoral | Carlos Bustamante | Scientist at Amgen, Comparative Biology and Safety, Sciences Department, Computational Biology |
Xie, Kathleen | Predoctoral | David Kingsley | Stanford Affiliate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
2013-14 Fellows
Fellow | Post- or Pre- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position |
Jewett, Ethan | Predoctoral | Noah Rosenberg |
Computational Biologist, 23andMe
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Kamneva, Olga | Postdoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Principal Data Scientist, Roche Sequencing Solutions (Ariosa) |
Kyriazopoulou-Panagiotopoulou, Sofia | Predoctoral | Serafim Batzoglou | Principal Scientist, ArsenalBio` |
Marcovitz, Amir | Postdoctoral | Gill Bejerano | Bioinformatics Scientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific |
Mendez, Fernando | Postdoctoral | Carlos Bustamante | Senior Bioinformatics Engineer, Invitae |
Ioannidis, Nilah | Postdoctoral | Carlos Bustamante | Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley |
Peterson, Christine | Postdoctoral | Chiara Sabatti | Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
Tepolt, Carolyn | Predoctoral | Stephen Palumbi | Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
Wittmann, Meike | Postdoctoral | Dmtri Petrov | Junior Professor, University of Bielefeld, Germany |