People

Vanessa D Jonsson, PI

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and faculty at the Genomics Institute at UCSC. The Jonsson lab aims to understand how the immune system evolves in the context of human disease: to do this, we develop computational methods for the analysis of high throughput genomic and immunological data. Caltech, PhD, co-advised by Richard Murray (Engineering) and David Baltimore (Biology). Previously, developed software for robotic missions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Current

  • Divya Venkatraman, PhD student, Biomolecular Engineering, UCSC.

  • Nicholas Rose, PhD Student, Biomolecular Engineering, UCSC.

  • Lydia Mok, PhD Student, Biomolecular Engineering, UCSC.

  • Cynthia Ramirez, PhD Candidate, Applied Math, UCSC.

  • Etenesh Abebe, Undergraduate Student, Biomolecular Engineering, UCSC.

Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • (2022-2023) Neda Bidoki, PhD, CIRM Postdoctoral Fellow, Machine Learning for multi-omics, UCSC.

  • (2018-2021) Jonathan Hibbard, PhD, Biostatistics/machine learning.

Master students

  • Nicholas Rose, MS, Biomolecular Engineering, UCSC.

  • Julian Lehrer, MS Student, Applied Math, UCSC.

Undergraduate students

  • (2021-2022) Simon Lee, UCSC, Major: Applied Math. Currently: UCLA PhD student, Computational Medicine.

  • (2021) Elora Pradhan, Caltech, Major; Bioengineering,

  • (2021) Tea Susskind, Caltech, Major: Applied Math.

  • (2020) Hannah Chen, Caltech, Major: Computing and Math Science.

  • (2019-2020) Natalie Dullerud, Currently: PhD Student Computer Science, Stanford.

  • (2017) Lindy Conrad, Currently: MS, UCSD.

Research associates

  • (2018-2020) Rachel Ng, Bioinformatics/computational immunology. Currently: PhD student, Bioengineering, University of Washington.

  • (2019-2021) Neena Leggett,  Wet lab/single cell analysis for clinical samples.