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

Lizbeth Hoffman
Research Technician, joint with Joe Pogliano

Makaela Levine
Research Technician

Postdoctoral Scholars

Daniel Barrero
Postdoctoral Fellow

Siyu Chen
Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow

Koe Inlow
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Joe Pogliano

Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow,
joint with Sam Reck-Peterson’s Lab

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

Miguel Ruiz
BioSci Graduate Student

Anna Tifrea
MD/PhD Student

Undergraduate Students

Sahana Rangarajan
Undergraduate Researcher

Caroline Rees
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

Ann Aindow, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2024

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, Grad Student, 2018-2024

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

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)