People

 

 

Staff

 

 

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


Steven Villareal
Lab Manager

 

Farhaz Shaikh
Research Associate

 

 

Postdoctoral Scholars

 

Annie Aindow
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Joe Pogliano

 

Siyu Chen
Postdoctoral Fellow

 

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

 

Josh Hutchings
EMBO Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Phoolwanti Rani
Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Digvijay Singh
Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Arica VanderWal 
 Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Lindsey Young
NIH K00 Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Graduate Students

 


Jelani Lyda
Grad Student, co-advised by Kit Pogliano

 

Amy Prichard
Grad Student, co-advised by Joe Pogliano

 


Zaida Rodriguez
Graduate Student

 

 

 

Undergraduate Students

 


Sahana Rangarajan
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

 

Vinson Lam
Graduate Student, co-advised by Susan Golden, qBio Graduate Program

 

Tom Laughlin
LSRF Postdoctoral Fellow (sponsored by the Simons Foundation) 

 


Kaia To
Undergraduate Researcher

 

Matt Croxford
Graduate Student, qBio Graduate Program

 

CourtneyCourtney Millican
Administrative Assistant

 


Sergey Suslov
Research Scientist, now Visiting Scholar

ThermoFisher Scientific Application Specialist 

 


Vignesh Kasinath
Hellen Hey and NIH K99Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Eva Nogales’ Lab 

Currently Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, UC Boulder

 


Kanika Khanna
Graduate Student

Currently LSRF Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley

 


Reika Watanabe Castillon
Research Scientist

Currently a staff scientist in the Ollmann Saphire Lab  

 


Martina Audagnotto
Virtual Molecular Cell Consortium Postdoctoral Fellow

Currently data scientist at GSK

 


Jan Böhning
Masters Student, Gene Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Tanmay Bharat’s lab

 


Robert Buschauer
Masters Student, Gene Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Roland Beckmann’s lab

 


Felix Wagner
Masters Student, Gene Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Patrick Cramer’s lab

 


Yuan Yuan (Annie)
Undergraduate,  Bioengineering

 


Ziyi Zhao
Undergraduate, Physics