People

 

Staff

 

Elizabeth Villa (PI)

Professor of Molecular Biology

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Steven Villareal

Lab Manager

Anna Crie

Admin Coordinator

Alex Flaherty

Research Associate

Shannon Barret

Research Technician

Makaela Levine

Research Technician

Postdoctoral Scholars

Daniel Barrero

Postdoctoral Fellow

Siyu Chen

Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow

Eva Karasmanis

Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow

Niklas Klusch

Schmidt Futures Postdoctoral Fellow

Rui Liu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Phoolwanti Rani

Postdoctoral Fellow

Lindsey Young

NIH K00 Postdoctoral Fellow

Graduate Students

Tamar Basiashvili

Biochemistry & Biophysics Graduate Student

Madeleine Duquette

BioSci Graduate Student Gilliam Fellow

Miguel Ruiz

BioSci Graduate Student

Anna Tifrea

MD/PhD Student

Undergraduate Students

Francine Lumbao

Undergraduate Researcher

Caroline Rees

Undergraduate Researcher

Kenton Tsang

Undergraduate Researcher

 

Scholars Who Have Visited

Scholars Who have Visited

Joachim Frank

Professor, Columbia University

Visiting Scholar, February 2023

Karl Peter Hopfner

Professor, Gene Center, LMU Munich

Visiting Scholar, 2022-2023

John Sedat

Professor, UCSF 

Visiting Scholar, 2016-2019

Roland Beckkmann

Professor, Gene Center, LMU 

Sabbatical Visitor, 2017

 

Alumni

Alumni

Koe Inlow, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-2025 (Presently: Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Postdoctoral Researcher)

Sahana Rangarajan, Undergrad Student, 2022-2025 (Presently: Eli Lilly & Co., Internship / UCSD, Bioinformatics

Ann Aindow, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2024 (Presently: Creighton University, Faculty)

Digvijay Singh, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2024 (Presently: Singular Genomics, Researcher)

Josh Hutchings, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2024 (Presently: Chan Zuckerberg Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging, Researcher)

Amy Prichard, Graduate Student, 2018-2024 (Presently: UCLA, Postdoctoral Fellow)

Farhaz Shaikh, Research Associate,  2021-2024 (Presently: MD Candidate at the University of California, San Francisco)

Maximilian Dreimann, Visiting Graduate Student, 2023-2024 (Presently: PhD candidate at EMBL Heidelberg)

Hannah Buschkämper, Visiting Graduate Student, 2023-2024 (Presently: PhD candidate at MPI for Biochemistry in Martinsried)

Arica  VanderWal, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2023 (Presently: Illy Lilly Postdoctoral Fellow)

Joan Molina Vargas, Visiting undergraduate Student, 2023

Kaia To, Under Grad, 2021-2023 (Presently: Research Technician at Cell Application Inc.)

Zaida Rodriguez, Grad Student, 2022-2023 (Presently: Graduate Student with Dmitry Lyumkis at the Salk Institute) 

Courtney Millican, Administrative Assistant, 2022-2023 (Presently:  Administrative Assistant, Looger Lab, UCSD)

Tom Laughlin, LSRF Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2022 (Presently:  Scientist in Imaging Technologies, Altos Labs)

Vinson Lam, Grad Student, 2016-2022 (Presently: Cryo-EM Facility Staff, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michiigan)

Matt Croxford, Grad Student 2016-2022 (Presently:  Research Scientist, Aferna Bio)

Vignesh Kasinath, NIH K99 Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2021 (Presently: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder)

Sergey Suslov, Research Scientist, 2019-2021 (Presently: Application Scientist at ThermoFisher Scientific) 

Kanika Khanna, Grad Student, 2014-2020 (Presently: Scientific Program Leader at the Gladstone Institute of Virology, UCSF)

Reika Watanabe, Staff Scientist, 2014-2020 (Presently:  Scientific Associate at the La Jolla Institute of Immunology)

Martina Audagnotto, VMCC Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2020 (Presently: Senior Data Scientist, GSK Sweden)

Jan Böhning, MS Student, 2017-2018 (Presently:  Graduate Student with Tanmay Bharat, LMB, Cambridge)

Robert Buschauer, MS student, 2016-2017 (Presently:  Analyst at Wellington Partners Life Sciences)

Felix Wagner, MS Student, 2014-2015 (Presently: Principal Scientist at Odessey Therapeutics)