BIDS-TP Fellows and Trainees

BIDS-TP supports two types of doctoral students – Fellows (funded) and Trainees (independently funded). These are two-year appointments. All current and prospective UM doctoral students with BIDS interests are eligible to apply for the Traineeship slots (5-6 new trainees each year). US citizens and permanent residents are eligible for the Fellowship lots (4 new slots each year).

Doctoral students from DCMB or MIDAS GDSC Program are eligible to apply.

Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Evan Snitkin
Year in Program 2024-2025 (cohort 3)

Jenna Bedrava

Program: Data Science
Track: Trainee
Advisor: Matthew Schipper
Year in Program 2022-2024 (cohort 2)

Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Evan Snitkin
Year in Program 2022-2024 (cohort 2)

Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Maureen Sartor
Year in Program: 2021-2023 (cohort 1)

Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Lana Garmire
Year in Program: 2021-2023 (cohort 1)

Luke Francisco

Program: Data Science
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Ambuj Tewari & Margit Burmeister
Year in Program 2022-2024 (cohort 2)

Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Trainee
Advisor: Kayvan Najarian
Year in Program 2024-2025 (cohort 3)

Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Trainee
Advisor: Todd Hollon
Year in Program: 2021-2023 (cohort 1)

Jake Joseph

Program: Data Science
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Anne Draelos
Year in Program 2024-2025 (cohort 3)

Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Arvind Rao
Year in Program 2024-2025 (cohort 3)

Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Matt O’Meara
Year in Program 2022-2024 (cohort 2)

Rio Parsons

Program: Data Science
Track: Trainee
Advisor: Anne Draelos
Year in Program 2024-2025 (cohort 3)

Ryan Rebernick
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Trainee
Advisor: Marcin Cieslik
Year in Program: 2021-2023 (cohort 1)

Program: Bioinformatics

Track: Trainee

Advisor: Ivo Dinov

Year in Program: 2021-2023 (cohort 1)

Ashley Tsang

Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: TBD
Year in Program 2024-2025 (cohort 3)

Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Lana Garmire
Year in Program 2024-2025 (cohort 3)

BIDS-TP Alumni

Mentor: S. Chandrasekaran
Start Date: 9/17


Ph.D. Student
Mentor: E. Snitkin


Ph.D. Student
Mentor: VG Vydiswaran

Ph.D. Student
Mentor: J. Li

Mentor: Steve Parker

Ph.D. Student
Mentor: J. Liu

Mentor: Lydia Freddolino

Mentor: A. Rao
Current Position: Bioinformatics Software Engineer, Illumina

Mentor: Kavyan Najarian