Lab Research Staff
Olena Vaske
Principal Investigator
Geoff Lyle
Junior Data Analyst
Anouk van den Bout
Assistant Specialist
Holly Beale
Computational Biologist
Current Graduate Students
Allison Cheney
PhD Candidate
Yvonne Vasquez
Graduate Student
Krizia Chambers
Graduate Student
Maryke Grobler
Graduate Student
Current Undergraduates
Kathryn Echandia-Monroe
Undergraduate researcher
Elise Huang
Lab Aide & Undergraduate Researcher
Mansi Khare
Undergraduate researcher
Other Treehouse Staff
David Haussler
Treehouse Initiative Co-Founder; Biomolecular Engineering Scientific Director, UCSC Genomics Institute
Sofie Salama
Research Scientist in Biomolecular Engineering and Haussler-Salama Wet Lab Director
Ellen Kephart
Software Engineer
Katrina Learned
Data Coordinator
ALUMNI
Staff
| 2016-2022 | Isabel Bjork | Chief Executive Officer of Vascular Cures |
| 2019 | Camille Cooley | Genetic counselor graduate from UC Irvine School of Medicine |
| 2019 | Marissa Chen | Medical assistant at Orange County Children’s Medical Group |
Postdocs
| 2021-2023 | Gina Mawla | Postdoc at Caltech |
Ph.D. Recipients
| 2016-2020 | Lauren Sanders | Staff scientist at Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, NASA Ames GeneLab |
| 2015-2020 | Jacob Pfeil | Thesis: “Novel Gene Expression Analyses to Accelerate Precision Pediatric Oncology Research” Computational biologist at AbbVie and working to support the development of innovative therapies in the field of immuno-oncology and implementing state-of-the-art bioinformatics solutions to accelerate drug discovery and development. |
Undergraduates
| 2023-2024 | Sophie Moreno | Previously an undergraduate researcher. |
| 2018-2023 | Molly McCabe | Previously a lab aide and junior research specialist. |
| 2022-2023 | Jay Kairamkonda | Previously a Treehouse computational biology researcher. |
| 2021-2022 | Nabil Mohammed | Previously a Treehouse computational biology researcher. |
| 2020-2022 | Reyna Antilla | Previously a Treehouse computational biology researcher. |
| 2020-2021 | Melica Baboldashtian | Previously a Research Mentoring Institute (RMI) fellow at Treehouse. |
| 2020-2021 | Eduardo Del Rio | Previously a Research Mentoring Institute (RMI) fellow at Treehouse. |
| 2020-2021 | Drew Thompson | Previously a Treehouse computational biology researcher. |
| 2019-2021 | Sneha Jariwala | Previously a Treehouse computational biology researcher and recipient of the 2021 Dean’s Award and the 2021 Chancellor Award for outstanding research. Currently a clinical coordinator with Stanford. |
| 2019-2020 | Katie Barnes | Previously a Treehouse computational biology researcher. Currently a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with the Microbiology department. |
| 2018-2021 | Keren Sanchez | Previously a Vaske lab volunteer and aid. |
| 2018-2020 | Jackie Roger | Previously a Treehouse computational biology researcher. Currently a graduate student researcher with the UCSF Bioinformatics program. |
| 2018-2019 | Liliana Cortes | Previously a Treehouse computational biology researcher. |
| 2018-2019 | Deanna Burke | Previously a Treehouse computational biology researcher. |
| 2018-2019 | Matthew Cattle | Previously a Treehouse computational biology researcher. |
| 2018-2019 | Liam McKay | Previously a Treehouse computational biology researcher. Currently a staff research associate at UCSF Mission Bay. |
TUBI Participants
Treehouse Undergraduate Bioinformatics Immersion (TUBI) is a program dedicated to undergraduates learning important computational and biological skillsets for research while applying these skills to current bioinformatics projects. This includes finding specific drug targets to combat pediatric cancer through gene expression analysis.