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.
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Submit fellowship application (2019-20 applications due April 12, 2019, Letters due April 19, 2019). We are no longer accepting applications for the 2019-20 program.
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 | |
| Tamburini, Fiona | Pre-Doctoral | Ami Bhatt |
2017-18 Fellows
| Fellow | Post- or Pre- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position |
| Endlich, Solomon | Postdoctoral | Gill Bejerano | |
| 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 | |
| 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 in Population Genetics, 23andMe. Previously, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley.
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| Kamneva, Olga | Postdoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Principal Data Scientist, Roche Sequencing Solutions (Ariosa). Previously, Staff Scientist of Bioinformatics at Affymetrix |
| Kyriazopoulou-Panagiotopoulou, Sofia | Predoctoral | Serafim Batzoglou | CompBio/Machine Learning, Illumina. Previously, Senior Scientist in Computational Biology at 10X Genomics. |
| Marcovitz, Amir | Postdoctoral | Gill Bejerano | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Computational Biology |
| Mendez, Fernando | Postdoctoral | Carlos Bustamante | Senior Scientist and Population Geneticist, Helix |
| Monnier Ioannidis, Nilah | Postdoctoral | Carlos Bustamante | Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford Genetics |
| Peterson, Christine | Postdoctoral | Chiara Sabatti | Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Tepolt, Carolyn | Predoctoral | Stephen Palumbi | Postdoctoral Fellow in biodiversity genomics, Smithsonian Institution (National Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian Environmental Research Center) |
| Wittmann, Meike | Postdoctoral | Dmtri Petrov | Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics and Biosciences Group at the University of Vienna |
