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
Lizbeth Hoffman
Research Technician, joint with Joe Pogliano
Makaela Levine
Research Technician
Postdoctoral Scholars
Annie Aindow
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Joe Pogliano
Daniel Barrero
Postdoctoral Fellow
Siyu Chen
Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow
Josh Hutchings
EMBO Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellow
Koe Inlow
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Joe Pogliano
Niklas Klusch
Schmidt Futures Postdoctoral Fellow
Rui Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Phoolwanti Rani
Postdoctoral Fellow
Digvijay Singh
Damon Runyon and K99 Postdoctoral Fellow
Lindsey Young
NIH K00 Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Students
Tamar Basiashvili
Biochemistry & Biophysics Graduate Student
Madeleine Duquette
BioSci Graduate Student
Jelani Lyda
BioSci Grad Student, co-advised by Kit Pogliano
Miguel Ruiz
BioSci Graduate Student
Anna Tifrea
MD/PhD Student
Hannah Buschkämper
Visiting Graduate Student, Gene Center, LMU Munich
Maximilan Dreimann
Visiting Graduate Student, Heidelberg University
Undergraduate Students
Sahana Rangarajan
Undergraduate Researcher
Caroline Rees
Undergraduate Researcher
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
