People

Vanessa D Jonsson, PI

Assistant Professor jointly in Applied Mathematics and 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 mathematical models and build 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 Student, Applied Math, 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 BIG Summer, MS, EPFL.

  • (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.