UCSC Genome Browser Project Team

Questions

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Engineering and management staff

Genome Browser team photo from July 2025.
Genome Browser team July 2025 event at Natural Bridges State Park.

Systems administration staff

UCSC Genome Browser Scientific Advisory Board

We thank our Scientific Advisory Board for their expert guidance, candid feedback, and continued support of the UCSC Genome Browser.

  • Ross C. Hardison, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University.
  • Analiz Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Neurosurgical Oncology and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
  • Anna Benet-Pages, Ph.D., Lab Associate Director, MGZ – Medical Genetics Center, Munich.
  • Carol J. Bult, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) Consortium, The Jackson Laboratory.
  • Christian Gilissen, Ph.D., Professor of Genome Bioinformatics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen.
  • Jill E. Moore, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Genomics & Computational Biology / RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan Medical School.
  • Katie S. Pollard, Ph.D., Director, Gladstone Institute of Data Science & Biotechnology; Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF.
  • James T. Robinson, Ph.D., Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego.
  • Scott Topper, Ph.D., Chief Clinical Operations Officer, Color (Color Health).
  • Barbara Wold, Ph.D., Bren Professor of Molecular Biology, California Institute of Technology.

UCSC Genomics Institute administrative staff

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Genome Browser project alumni

We gratefully acknowledge the help of our many project alumni:

Robert Baertsch, Gill Bejerano, Steve Benz, Halima Bishop, Mathieu Blanchette, Brenna Candelaria, Mike Chalup, Truman Chan, Ron Chao, Chad Chen, Vege Clerisse, Melissa Cline, Antonio Coelho, Mark Diekhans, Tim Dreszer, Jenny Draper, Phoenix Eagleshadow, Chris Eisenhart, Katy Elliott, Ruihua Fang, Pauline Fujita, Terry Furey, Patrick Gavin, Mary Goldman, Danielle Gomez, Rob Gravell, Luvina Guruvadoo, Rachel Harte, Steve Heitner, Fan Hsu, Jennifer Jackson, Donna Karolchik, Jim Kent, Robert Kuhn, Scot Kennedy, Andy Kern, Alexa Lakey, Katrina Learned, Brian Lee, Chin Li, Victoria Lin, Nick Littlestone, Jeff Long, Craig Lowe, Yontao Lu, Crystal Lynch, Jian Ma, Morgan Maddren, Venkat Malladi, Chester Manuel, Larry Meyer, Karen Miga, Gary Moro, Max Nash, Parisa Nejad, Jakob Pedersen, Mike Pheasant, Andy Pohl, Katie Pollard, Conner Powell, Thomas Pringle, Ruth Rabinowitz, Brooke Rhead, Greg Roe, Sanja Rogic, Susan Rose, Kate Rosenbloom Pohl, Krishna Roskin, Zack Sanborn, Matt Schwartz, Adam Siepel, Cricket Alicia Sloan, Daniel Schmelter, Rachel Schwartz, Kayla Smith, Matthew Speir, Chuck Sugnet, Bernard Suh, Ali Sultan-Qurraie, Vanessa Swing, Paul Tatarksy, Haifang Telc, Archana Thakkapallayil, Daryl Thomas, Aaron Tomb, Heather Trumbower, Cath Tyner, Chris Villarreal, Branwyn Wagman, Sandra Walton, Ting Wang, Ryan Weber, Alexander Wolfe, Matt Wong, Wei Wu, Matt Xia, Chen-Hsiang Yeang, Zheng-Willy Zhang, Degui Zhi, and Ann Zweig.

Genome Browser project undergraduate interns

We are pleased to recognize and acknowledge the contributions, support, and hardwork of our UCSC undergraduate student interns:

2024, Fall quarter     Megna Chalamala, Yesenia Puga.

2025, Summer quarter     Jaidan Jenkins-Kiefer, Karen Wang.