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Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Tata Hall 5104
Phone: +1 (858) 246-1843
Tamar Basiashvili
Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Biophysics Graduate Program
Tata Hall 5600
Phone: +1 (858) 822-4038
Matt Croxford
Graduate Student, qBio Graduate Program
Tata Hall 5600
Phone: +1 (858) 822-4038
Eva Karasmanis
Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Sam Reck-Peterson’s Lab
Tata Hall 5600
Phone: +1 (858) 822-4038
Josh Hutchings
EMBO Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellow
Tata Hall 5600
Phone: +1 (858) 822-4038
Vinson Lam
Graduate Student, co-advised by Susan Golden, qBio Graduate Program
Tata Hall 5600
Phone: +1 (858) 822-4038
Tom Laughlin
Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (sponsored by the Simons Foundation)
Tata Hall 5600
Phone: +1 (858) 822-4038
Jelani Lyda
Grad Student, co-advised by Kit Pogliano
NSB
Phone: +1 (858) 822-4038
Amy Prichard
Grad Student, co-advised by Joe Pogliano
NSB
Phone: +1 (858) 822-4038
Farhaz Shaikh
Research Associate
Tata Hall 5600
Phone: +1 (858) 822-4038
Digvijay Singh
Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow
Tata Hall 5600
Phone: +1 (858) 822-4038
Sergey Suslov
Research Scientist
Tata Hall 5600
Phone: +1 (858) 822-4038
Kaia To
Undergraduate Researcher
Tata Hall 5600
Phone: +1 (858) 822-4038
Steven Villareal
Lab Manager
Tata Hall 5600
Phone: +1 (858) 822-4038
Lindsey Young
NIH K00 Postdoctoral Fellow
Tata Hall 5600
Phone: +1 (858) 822-4038
Scholars Who have Visited
John Sedat
Professor, UCSF
Visiting Scholar, 2016-2019
Roland Beckkmann
Professor, Gene Center, LMU
Sabbatical Visitor, 2017
Alumni
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 staff scientist at Aztrazeneca in Sweden.
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