Juliann received her BS in computer science and molecular biology from MIT. As a medical student at Tufts Medical School and now a resident at UNLV, she is working on detecting signatures of positive and negative selection from the length distributions of somatic copy-number alterations. She also regularly goes mountain- and rock-climbing, which makes Rameen anxious.

Fun facts: In my spare time, I travel in search of the best combination of mountains, noodles, and coffee. So far, Arco, Italy takes the cake!

Favorite quote: “Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.” Miyamoto Musashi

Coyin received her BS in biological engineering from MIT. As a medical student in the HST program at Harvard Medical School and Beroukhim lab member, she worked on a computational pipeline that infers copy-number alterations in cancer genomes. After graduating Coyin entered the Medicine residency at UCSF.

Fun facts: Coyin is from Malaysia(!) and is very passionate about food.

Favorite quote: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” –Oscar Wilde

Jeff majored in chemistry and math at Williams College. He is now a student in the MD–PhD program at Harvard and the MD program at Health Sciences and Technology. Jeff studied the genomic correlates of melanoma response to immunotherapy and the use of new sequencing technologies to find alterations in cancer genomes. He is now completing his last two years of medical school at Harvard.

Fun fact: Jeff measures the temperature of just about anything he cooks.

Favorite quote: “A journey of a thousand miles starts from the ground under your feet.” “千里之行，始于足下。” –Laozi

Prasidda received his BA in biology and biochemistry from Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., before joining the BBS PhD program at Harvard University in 2016. He is currently studying the role of PPM1D mutations in the pathogenesis of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), mechanisms of therapeutic resistance in Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), and characterization of the role of TERC in human malignancies.

Response to being asked for a fun fact: “What if one literally doesn’t have any fun fact? Asking for a friend.”

Favorite quote: “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible—and achieve it, generation after generation.”  –Pearl S. Buck