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Article April 18, 2024

Computational Biology Pioneer Katie Pollard Elected as AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies, has elected Gladstone Senior Investigator Katie Pollard, PhD, into its new class of AAAS Fellows, a lifetime honor within the scientific community.

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Gladstone in the News October 17, 2022

National Academy of Medicine Elects 100 New Members

National Academy of Medicine—Katie Pollard, PhD, senior investigator and director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, in recognition of her discovery of fast-evolving regions in the human genome associated with psychiatric diseases, and of her open-source software used worldwide by genome scientists.

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Article December 23, 2021

Strains—not Species—of Gut Microbes Hold Key to Health and Disease

Two new studies underscore the importance of looking at bacterial strains when analyzing the human gut microbiome

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Gladstone in the News July 19, 2021

You’re Missing Microbes. But Is “Rewilding” the Way to Get Them Back?

New York Times—The microbiome plays a role in many autoimmune conditions, and some scientists believe that fecal transplants from individuals living in non-industrialized cultures may provide a solution. Katie Pollard, director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, explains why it may not be that easy.

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Video June 1, 2020

Exploring Human Microbes through Big Data

In this episode of the Newton Series, Katie Pollard shares how big data allows for deep exploration of the human microbiome.

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Article March 14, 2019

Uncovering Uncultivated Microbes in the Human Gut

Human gut microbiome serves as model to demonstrate efficacy of computational tools

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Article August 9, 2018

Why Do Some Microbes Live in Your Gut While Others Don’t?

A new computational approach identifies genes that may help microbes live successfully in the human gut

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Article September 5, 2017

On a Quest to Improve Treatments for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

An unexpected collaboration leads to the discovery of an early predictor of IBD

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Article February 8, 2017

Pollard Selected as Chan Zuckerberg Investigator

Katherine Pollard, PhD, director of the convergence science initiative at the Gladstone Institutes, has been selected as a Chan Zuckerberg Investigator. As part of this 5-year appointment, Pollard will join the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub with 46 other world-renowned scientists, engineers, and technologists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.

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Article October 17, 2016

Strain-Level Profiling Yields New Insights into Mother-Infant Microbiomes

Direct microbial sequencing of environmental samples, such as from ocean water, hospital surfaces, and the human gut, have illuminated the vast number of microbes present in our world.

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Article May 23, 2016

Pollard Advises White House’s New Microbiome Initiative

The White House invited Katherine Pollard to join the National Microbiome Initiative as a leader in the field of bioinformatics.  

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Article January 15, 2016

Katherine Pollard Presents at Google in Gladstone’s New Series of Open Classroom Talks

Katherine Pollard shares science on big data and high-performance computing with an audience at Google as part of the Gladstone Open Classroom Talks series.

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Article November 13, 2015

Exploring Our Bacterial Ecosystem

The most influential “organ” in the human body is made up of foreign cells—six pounds worth of microorganisms. Katherine Pollard studies the human microbiome to learn how it influences health and disease.

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Article March 3, 2015

Mapping the Gut Microbiome to Better Understand Its Role in Obesity

Katherine Pollard uses innovative statistical analyses to shed new light on the connection between gut bacteria, metabolism, and BMI.

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June 12, 2012

Consortium of Scientists Map the Human Body’s Bacterial Ecosystem

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes today are announcing their role in an unprecedented collaboration organized by the National Institutes of Health, which used groundbreaking methods to vastly improve our understanding of bacteria that reside in and on the human body.

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