Staff
Elizabeth Villa (PI)
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Steven Villareal
Lab Manager
Courtney Millican
Administrative Assistant
Postdoctoral Scholars
Arica VanderWal
Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Students
Jelani Lyda
Grad Student, co-advised by Kit Pogliano
Undergraduate Students
Sahana Rangarajan
Undergraduate Researcher
Kaia To
Undergraduate Researcher
Scholars Who have Visited
John Sedat
Professor, UCSF
Visiting Scholar, 2016-2019
Roland Beckkmann
Professor, Gene Center, LMU
Sabbatical Visitor, 2017
Alumni
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 Postdoctoral Fellow in Michael Fischbach’s Lab at Stanford
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