People

 

 

Staff

 

 

Elizabeth Villa (PI)
Professor of Molecular Biology 
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator


Steven Villareal
Lab Manager

 

Farhaz Shaikh
Research Associate

 

Anna Crie
Admin Coordinator

 

Lizbeth Hoffman
Research Technician, joint with Joe Pogliano

 

Postdoctoral Scholars

 

Annie Aindow
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Joe Pogliano

Siyu Chen
Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

Josh Hutchings
EMBO Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellow

Koe Inlow

Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Joe Pogliano

 

Eva Karasmanis

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

Niklas Klusch 
 Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Phoolwanti Rani
Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Digvijay Singh
Damon Runyon 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

Amy Prichard
BioSci Grad Student, co-advised by Joe Pogliano

 

Miguel Ruiz
BioSci Graduate Student

Anna Tifrea
Graduate Student

Hannah Buschkämper
Visiting Graduate Student

 

Maximilan Dreimann
Visiting Graduate Student

 

Undergraduate Students

 


Sahana Rangarajan
Undergraduate Researcher

Alex Flaherty
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

 

Arica  VanderWal, Postdoctoral Fellow (07/2022 to 09/2023)

Joan Molina Vargas, Under Grad (06/2023 to 09/2023)

Kasia To, Under Grad (01/2021 to 03/2023)

Zaida Rodriguez, Grad Student (03/2022 to 06/2023)

Tom Laughlin, Postdoctoral Fellow (09/2016 to 08/2022)

Vinson Lam, Grad Student (01/2016 to 07/2022)

Matt Croxford, Grad Student (09/2016 to 07/2022)

Vignesh Kasinath, Postdoctoral Fellow (09/2018 to 07/2021)

Sergey Suslov, Research Scientist (03/2019 to 06/2021)

Kanika Khanna, Grad Student (01/2014 to 03/2020)

Martina Audagnotto, Postdoctoral Fellow (09/2017 to 02/2020)

Jan Böhning, MS Student (2017 to 2018)

Felix Wagner, MS Student (2014 to 2015)