Fifth + Year
Katie Augspurger
she/herUniversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Abigail Buchwalter, Barbara Panning
Research summary: Understanding the role and regulation of sex-specific variation in Lamin A
Varun Bhadkamkar
Williams College
BA, Chemistry
PI: Shaeri Mukherjee
Research summary: Understanding pan-Ras family small GTPase ubiquitination during Legionella infection
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: 2019 UCSF Moritz-Heyman Discovery Fellow
Derek Bogdanoff
University of British Columbia
BS, Microbiology & Immunology
PI: Tom Nowakowski
Research summary: Technology Design and Development
Liz Bond
She/her/herUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PI: Allison Williams
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2020 (honorable mention)
Discovery Fellow (2021)
Gabi Canales
University of Maryland Baltimore County
BS, Biological Sciences
PI: Jeremy Reiter
Research summary: Studying the mechanism of activation and function of MC4R at the primary cilia
Tim Casey-Clyde
University of California, Davis
BS, Cell Biology
PI: David Raleigh
Research summary: Epigenetic regulation of mouse neural crest development
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: T32 in Translational Brain Tumor Research
Nathan Cho
he/himStanford University
BS, Biology with Honors
PI: Sophie Dumont
Research summary: Defining the mechanisms by which NuMA drives spindle mechanical robustness
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellow (2022-2023)
Chuan Lyu Discovery Fellow (2021-2024)
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Honorable Mention (2021)
Tetrad Teaching Assistant Award (2021)
Pervin Choksi
University of Western Australia
BS, Biomedical Science
PI: Holger Willenbring
Research summary: Manipulating oval cells to restore liver function in alcoholic hepatitis patients
Megan Chong
she/herBowdoin College
BA, Biology
PI: Sophie Dumont
Research summary: Detecting errors in chromosome attachment to ensure mitotic fidelity
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NSF GRFP Honorable Mention 2019
UCSF Integrative Program in Complex Biological Sciences Training Grant 2020
NIH Ruth Kirschstein Predoctoral F31 Fellowship, NCI, 2021-2024
Daniel Conrad
he/himUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
BS, Cell & Developmental Biology
PI: Zev Gartner
Research summary: Single-Cell Sequencing Technology Development
Lorenzo Del Castillo
California State University, Northridge
BS, Cell and Molecular Biology
PI: Jeremy Reiter
Research summary: I am using optogenetic tools in cells to manipulate hedgehog signaling and look at pathway dynamics in different developmental systems.
Ulises Diaz
San Francisco State University
BS, Cell and Molecular Biology
PI: Wallace Marshall
Research summary: Organelle scaling and regulation in giant unicellular organisms.
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: HHMI Gilliam Fellow 2020
Gabriella Estevam
she/herUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PI: James Fraser
Research summary: Structural biology of kinases, RTK autoregulation and inhibitor sensitivity
Jocelyne Fadiga
University of California, Merced
BS, Chemical Sciences
PI: Orion Weiner
Research summary: Mechanisms of polarity and substrate topology integration during neutrophil migration
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NIH IMSD
NSF GRFP
Jason Garcia
He/Him/HisSan Francisco State University
BS, Biology, Biology, Cell and Molecular Biology
PI: Su Guo
Research summary: Role of Par3 phosphorylation during Radial Glia asymmetric cell division
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: IMSD Fellowship (2018-2020)
Ford Fellowship Honorable mention (2020 & 2021)
Louise Zeh Fellowship (2020-2021)
NIH Diversity Supplement (2022-2023)
Haley Gause
she/her/hersCalifornia State University, Long Beach
BS, Microbiology
PI: Sandy Johnson
Research summary: Mechanisms behind Candida and Bacterial Interactions in the Gut Microbiome
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: Hooper Graduate Student Fellowship (2022)
Discovery Fellowship (2020 - current)
TA Excellence Award (2020)
MPHD T32 Training Fellow (2019)
NSF GRFP Honorable Mention (2018)
Sarah Heater
University of Washington
BS, Biology:Physiology and Spanish
PI: Anita Sil
Research summary: Elucidate the Mechanism of Temperature Sensing in a Thermally Dimorphic Fungi through Investigating the Candidate Thermosensor Msb2
Kelsey Hennick
University of California, Davis
BS, Genetics
PI: Tom Nowakowski
Research summary: cortical development
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
Clara Herrera
she/herReed College
BA, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PI: Joanne Engel
Research summary: I will be characterizing the predicted interaction between C. trachomatis protein CT224 and a human E3 ubiquitin ligase as well conducting a ubiquitination screen in chlamydia-infected cells.
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: UCSF I-Micro training grant (2019)
UCSF Discovery Fellowship (2019)
UCSF I-Micro training grant (2020)
NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship (2021)
Award for best graduate student oral presentation at Chlamydia Basic Research Society Meeting (2023)
Dana Kennedy
San Francisco State University
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Bassem Al-Sady
Research summary: Understanding the mechanisms underlying heterochromatin formation and maintenance using biochemistry and biophysical techniques
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: 1. 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recipient
2. 2017 National Institute for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) fellowship at UCSF
Lili Kim
She/HerUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Carol Gross
Research summary: Surveying the Phenotypic Landscape of Bacillus subtilis
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: 2018 NSF GRFP - Honorable Mention
Matthew Kim
University of California, Berkeley
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology
PI: Hana El-Samad
Research summary: Degron mediated proteolysis for synthetic T cell engineering and regulation
Victor Lam
University of Texas-Austin
BS, Biology Honors
PI: John Gross
Research summary: Interaction and evolution of HIV1 Vif with human antiviral APOBEC3G
Fredrick Leon
he/him/hisEmory University
BS, Biology
PI: David Booth
Research summary: The influence of iron on cell differentiation and nutrient sharing in the closest living relatives of animals
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NSF fellow, Discovery Fellows
Jose Liboy
He/Him/HisUniversity Of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
BS, Industrial Biotechnology
PI: Stephen Floor
Research summary: I am currently studying the role of G3BP stress granules in mRNA translation regulation and cell adaptation to exogenous stress.
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: 2018 – 2020: The National Institute for General Medical Sciences Initiative for Maximizing Student Development Fellowship
2020 – present: UCSF Discovery Fellowship
2021 - present: NRSA Predoctoral F31 Fellowship
Adam Longhurst
He/Him/HisUniversity of California Santa Cruz
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PI: David Toczyski
Research summary: Epigenetic Regulation of G1 Progression
Harold Marin
He/HimUniversity of California, Davis
BS, Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PI: Abigail Buchwalter
Research summary: H3K9me2 heterochromatin tethering to the nuclear periphery in mammals
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: Discovery Fellowship -- 2020
Honorable mention in Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship -- 2021
Jessica Mella
University of Utah
BS, Biology
PI: Abigail Buchwalter
Research summary: The sorting of emerin protein between the nuclear envelope and the secretory pathway
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: UCSF Matilda Edlund Scholarship, 2019
Anna Morrison
She/her/hersUniversity of Michigan-Ann Arbor
BS, Cellular and Molecular Biology
PI: Anita Sil
Research summary: Investigating the molecular mechanisms that underlie temperature response in Histoplasma capsulatum
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NSF GRFP Honorable Mention (2021)
Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense (MPHD) T32 Training Grant (2021 & 2023)
Thomas Moss
University of Virginia
BS, Biology
PI: Shaeri Mukherjee
Research summary: Mechanistic investigation into translational abrogation by Hsc70 phosphorylation
Elise Munoz
she/herUniversity of Arizona
BS, Biochemistry, Applied Math, Mol and Cell Biology
PI: Geeta Narlikar
Research summary: Elucidating the role of Rvb1/Rvb2 ATPases in chromatin remodeling complexes
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NIGMS F31 Predoctoral Fellowship (2021)
HHMI Gilliam Fellowship Finalist (2019)
National Science Foundation GRFP Honorable Mention (2018)
Carlos Nowotny
San Diego State University
BS, Chemistry Biochemistry
PI: David Agard
Research summary: A Mechanistic understanding of Hsp90-mediated kinase degradation
Ali Palla
University of California, Berkeley
BS, Chemical Biolody
PI: Danica Galonic Fujimori
Research summary: Investigating the mechanisms and functions of histone modifier KDM5A beyond the histone H3 tail
Jesslyn Park
she/herWinthrop University
BS, Chemistry
PI: Stephen Floor
Research summary: Elucidating the role of stress granule scaffold proteins in cellular viability
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: -2021 NASEM Ford Foundation Fellowship Honorable Mention
-2020 NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
Manuela Richter
she/herStanford University
BS, Biology
PI: Sophie Dumont
Research summary: Length Regulation in the Mitotic Spindle
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: GRFP NSF fellow
ARCS scholar
Nathan Rossen
Macalester College
BA, Biology
PI: David Julius
Research summary: Physiology and pathophysiology of enterochromaffin cells
Mashel Fatema Saifuddin
University of Texas-Austin, Natl Univ of Singapore
BS, Biochemistry, Exchange Program
PI: Noelle L'Etoile
Research summary: Memory Consolidation, Maintenance and Recall in C. Elegans
Frederick Santana
he/him/hisSan Francisco State University
MS, Cell and Molecular Biology
BS, Biology (Microbiology)
PI: Natalia Jura
Research summary: Pseudokinase regulation of Akt-mTOR signaling and its implication in malignant melanoma
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: - 2021 NASEM Ford Foundation Fellowship
- 2019 NIGMS IMSD Fellowship
Hayden Saunders
he/him/hisUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BS, Biology BS
PI: Geeta Narlikar
Research summary: Nucleosome conformational dynamics
Reuben Saunders
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, Chemistry
PI: Jonathan Weissman
Research summary: Improving phenotype quality in functional genomic screens.
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: Hertz Fellowship in Global Health and Development
Eric Simental
University of Arizona
BS, Biochemistry/Molecular and Cellular Biology
PI: Barbara Panning, Bassem Al-Sady
Research summary: Designing a heterochromatin spreading sensor
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: IMSD Fellowship
Jasmine Sims
San Francisco State University
MS, Cell and Molecular Biology
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Nadav Ahituv
Research summary: studying candidate pathogenic sequences recurrent in cancer.
Sushil Sobti
University of Missouri-Columbia
BS, Chemistry
PI: Hani Goodarzi
Research summary: Sources and role of noise in gene expression
Adriana Steinbach
She, her, hersUniversity of Chicago
BS, Biological Chemistry
PI: Shaeri Mukherjee
Research summary: Investigating the mechanism of lysosomal fusion evasion during Legionella pneumophila infection
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: iMicro T32, Hooper Graduate Fellowship
Seesha Takagishi
she/her/hersUniversity of Washington, Northwestern U Sch Contng Stud
BS, Certificate of Completion, Biochemistry, Programming
PI: Hana El-Samad
Research summary: Optogenetic method to investigate transcription factor signaling in mammalian cells
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NSF GRFP - 2020
Tetrad TA award - 2020
Nia Teerikorpi
University of California, Berkeley
BA, Molecular and Cellular Biology - Biochemistry II
PI: Jeremy Willsey
Research summary: Characterization of the Neurodevelopmental DNA Regulatory Pathways Underlying ASD
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NSF GRFP 2016, 2017 - Honorable Mention
Autism Speaks Weatherstone Predoctoral Fellowship, 2019 - 2 year fellowship - Awarded
NIH/NIMH NCRCRG & CN Consortium Meeting, 2019 - Sponsored Travel - Awarded
Chris Waters
he/him/hisUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PI: Lani Wu, Steven Altschuler
Research summary: Understanding emergent behaviors in mitophagy
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NSF GRFP (2016)
TA excellence award (2018)
Brian Wysolmerski
Cambridge University
M PHIL, Genetics
Pomona College
BA, Biology
PI: Mark Von Zastrow
Research summary: Subcellular trafficking of the heterotrimeric G protein, Gs, after activation by GPCRs
Connie Yan
University of Washington
BAS, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
PI: Wallace Marshall
Research summary: Role of Sfi1 proteins in Stentor regeneration
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NSF GRFP - 2019
Jenny Zhang
She/Her/HersUniversity of California, Berkeley
BA, Molecular Cellular Biology
PI: Sandy Johnson
Research summary: Molecular components that mediate Candida-Pseudomonas antagonism.
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: UCSF Discovery Fellowship
UCSF Fletcher Jones Fellowship 2022-2023
Fourth Year
Trase Aguigam
He/HimUniversity of California, Los Angeles
BS, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
PI: John Gross, Geeta Narlikar
Research summary: mRNA decapping and chromatin structure and function
Camila Benitez
University of California, Berkeley
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology emphasis in neuroscienc
PI: Aimee Kao
Research summary: How TSC1 haploinsufficiency leads to the specific accumulation of Tau
Zach Cogan
University of California, Santa Barbara
BA, Biology
PI: Peter Walter
Brandon Courteau
University of Rochester
BS, Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
PI: Natalia Jura, Kliment Verba
Research summary: Structural studies of oligomeric states of HER receptors
Addie Dwyer (Cady)
Duke University
BS, Biology
PI: David Raleigh
Research summary: Molecular mechanisms that drive meningioma pathology
Carla Espinoza
she/herUniversity of California, San Diego
BS, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
PI: Natalia Jura
Research summary: Investigating structure and signal activation of proto-oncogene RON receptor with it's ligand, Macrophage Stimulating Protein (MSP).
Alex Hong
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, Biology
PI: Joseph Bondy-Denomy
Research summary: Characterizing P. aeruginosa antiphage defense systems – Gabija and "ImmunoX" – particularly how their putative proteins target infecting phage DNA and the regulatory mechanisms behind these systems.
Claire Kokontis
she/her/hersUniversity of Chicago
BS, Biology
PI: Joseph Bondy-Denomy
Research summary: Mechanisms of a bacteriophage-encoded protective "nucleus-like" structure and anti-CRISPR proteins
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: UCSF Discovery Fellowship (2022)
Armando Martinez
San Jose State University
BS, Molecular Biology
PI: Frank McCormick
Research summary: Investigating SOS1 two distinct RAS binding sites: a catalytic site and an additional allosteric RAS binding site
Melissa Mendez
she/herUniv of London-King's College London
BSC, Biochemistry
PI: Peter Walter
Research summary: A novel role for the ER HSP70 in proteotasis via a nucleotide-independent interaction with the UPR sensor IRE1⍺
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NIGMS IMSD Fellowship
Kim Meneses
University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
PI: Zev Gartner
Research summary: The role of basement membrane on the structural niche of insulinlow beta cells in pancreatic islets
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: CIRM Fellowship 2021-2023
NSF Fellowship 2021-2026
Camille Moore
University of California, Berkeley
BA, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PI: Vijay Ramani, Geeta Narlikar
Research summary: Investigating the structure of heterochromatic domains using a minimal in vitro system and high throughput sequencing
CJ San Felipe
he/him/hisUniversity of California, Berkeley
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology
PI: James Fraser
Research summary: Developing SARS-CoV-2 antiviral therapeutics targeting Tom70-Orf9b.
CJ Sarabia
He/Him/HisUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PI: Roshanak Irannejad
Research summary: Investigation of cAMP signaling specificity from intracellular membrane compartments
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NSF GRFP 2022 Honorable Mention
Steve or Steven Sun
He/His/HimSan Francisco State University
MS, Cell and Molecular Biology
BS, Cell and Molecular Biology
PI: Ryan Hernandez
Research summary: Impact of associative overdominance on nucleotide diversity and the site frequency spectrum
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: IMSD Fellowship (2020-2022)
Vanna Tran
Southwestern University
BS, Biology
PI: Sophie Dumont
Research summary: Defining the physical and molecular basis of mammalian kinetochore structural maintenance under force
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: UCSF Discovery Fellow
Integrated Program in Complex Biological Systems (ipCBS) T32
Alexis Villani
she/her/hersUniversity of California, Irvine
BS, Microbiology and Immunology
PI: Joseph Bondy-Denomy
Research summary: Temperature-induced inactivation of bacterial immune systems
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: MPHD T32 2021-2022
Third Year
Kenya Bonitto
she/her/hersUniversity of California, Los Angeles
BS, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
PI: Davide Ruggero
Research summary: Exploring the functions of non-canonical translation factors and understanding how cancer cells control translational machinery.
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NIGMS IMSD Fellowship
Emmy Delaney
she/herUniversity of California, Davis
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PI: David Morgan
Research summary: Investigating separase substrates and their role in cell cycle progression
Camille Derderian
she/herCUNY Hunter College
BA, Psychology
PI: Jeremy Reiter
Research summary: Studying protein localization, function, and interaction at the ciliary base, and investigating cellular processes triggered by ciliary signaling
Eli Dugan
he/himUniversity of California, Berkeley
BA, Molecular Cell Biology
PI: Alex Marson
Research summary: Comprehensive Identification of HIV host factors in primary T cells.
Chloe Ghent
She/herUniversity of California, Berkeley
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology
PI: Danica Galonic Fujimori
Research summary: Investigating the regulation of antibiotic resistance in bacteria
Matt Howard
he/him/hisWashington University
AB, Biology & Chemistry: Concentration in Biochemistry
PI: Aashish Manglik, Willow Coyote-Maestas
Research summary: Development of high-throughput genetic screening platforms to study GPCR function, evolution, and pharmacology
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: Julius R. and Patricia A. Krevans Fellowship
Philipp Huettemann
he/him/hisUniversity of Michigan-Ann Arbor
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Tanja Kortemme
Research summary: Designing de novo signaling systems
Julia Kim
She/HerSmith College
BA, Biochemistry
PI: Wallace Marshall, Mustafa Aydogan
Research summary: Metabolism in Early Development
Tracy Knight
she/herBrown University
BS, Cell and Molecular Biology
PI: Abigail Buchwalter
Research summary: Determining the regulatory role of nuclear membrane protein emerin in Wnt-mediated B-catenin signaling in cardiomyocytes
Jennifer Le
she/herUniversity of California, Riverside
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Zev Gartner
Research summary: Cellular self-organization in the mammary epithelium
Deepa Rajan
she/her/hersVanderbilt University
BA, Neuroscience
PI: Wallace Marshall, Adam Frost
Research summary: Origins of Intelligence
David Sanchez Godinez
he/himUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
BS, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
PI: Orion Weiner
Research summary: Dissecting establishment of coordination during tissue unjamming events
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NIGMS IMSD Fellowship
Gabriel Viramontes
He/him/HisUniversity of California, Merced
BS, Biology: Emphasis in Ecology and Evolution
PI: David Booth
Research summary: Uncoupling how algal cues trigger multicellular development in the closest living relatives of animals
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: IMSD Award
Taylor Watanabe
she/herWhittier College
BA, Biology
PI: Daniel Mordes
Research summary: Studying TDP-43 Proteinopathy - Modeling Early-Stage Disease
Caroline Wilson
she/herColby College
BA, Biology: Concentration in Neuroscience
PI: Luke Gilbert
Research summary: High-throughput combinatorial CRISPR-based epigenetic editor discovery
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: NSF Honorable Mention
Second Year
Kathleen Adams-Boone
Michigan State University
BS, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology/Biotechnology
PI: Joanne Engel
Rio Barrere-Cain
she/herUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Human Biology
PI: Tiffany Scharschmidt
Research summary: Epigenetic regulation of T cell plasticity
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: I have published an online op-ed and two manuscripts, one of which I was first other on. Citations are below:
Op-Ed Published on Online Forum Highlighting How Physicians Can Increase Voting Opportunities June 17, 2021 https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/06/doctors-you-can-increase-voting-in-the-u-s.html
Macedo, B., Christophers, B., Barrere-Cain, R., Albrecht, Y. S., Granovetter, M. C., Kumar, R., ... & Rodrigues, J. A. (2022). The Virtual Summer Research Program: supporting future physician-scientists from underrepresented backgrounds. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 1-18.
Barrere-Cain, R., Garriga, M., Kaki, D. A., Lawrence, C., Reardon, A., & Martin, A. (2022) Why and How Civic Health Should be Incorporated into Medical Education. Academic Medicine, 10-1097.
Miranda Cabanski-Dunning
University of California, Davis
BS, Cell Biology
PI: Frank McCormick
Karina Cedeno
University of Utah
BS, Biology
Aaron Corin
he/him/hisBrandeis University
BS, Biochemistry, Biology
PI: Vijay Ramani, Geeta Narlikar
Amelie Delcourt
University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
PI: Leanne Jones
Micah Fernando
He/Him/HisGrand Valley State University
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Kevan Shokat
Ruth Groza
University of Washington
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Angela Phillips
Abby Hein
she/herUniversity of Colorado at Boulder
BA, Biochemistry
PI: Stephen Floor
Abe Horrillo
he/him/hisUniversity of California, Los Angeles
BS, Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology
PI: Benoit Bruneau
Research summary: Understanding changes in genome architecture and epigenetics during cardiac development.
Haiming Hu
University of California, San Diego
BS, Chemical Engineering
PI: Hao Li
Rachel Jones
University of Utah
BS, Cell and Molecular Biology
PI: Robert Blelloch
Hannah Kortbawi
she/herSanta Clara University
Biology
PI: Joseph DeRisi
Research summary: Investigating the role of autoantibodies in endometriosis
Jimin Lee
she/herKorea Advanced Inst of Sci and Tech
MS, Chemistry
KOREA UNIV - SEOUL
BS, Life Sciences
PI: Dan Southworth
Research summary: Investigating the Structure of Tau Fibrils
Jodi Lee
University of California, Santa Cruz
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PI: Katie Pollard
Gabriella Maldonado
Northeastern University
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Hideho Okada
Research summary: Dissecting molecular mechanisms driving neuron-glioblastoma tumor cell cross-talk
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation PhD Scholarship
Ayush Midha
he/him/hisHarvard University
Human Developmental and Regenterative Biology
PI: Isha Jain
Research summary: Metabolic adaptations to hypoxia
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: UCSF Justice, Equity, and Inclusion Award
Macey Slota (fmr Crow)
she/her/hersOther
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PI: Davide Ruggero
Cole Tharp
Iowa State University of Science and Technology
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Angela Phillips
Alex Vu
University of Southern California
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Qizhi Tang
Research summary: Regulation of Persistence in Regulatory T Cells
Keith Walcott
University of California, Santa Cruz
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PI: Angela Phillips
Research summary: Investigating the impact of host protein homeostasis on SARS-CoV-2 evolution
Kaite Zhang
Tufts University
BS, Biology & Clinical Psychology
PI: Vijay Ramani
First Year
Kevin Boardman
he/him/hisUC DAVIS
BS, Genetics and Genomics
Rudra Bose
RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIV HEIDELBERG
MS, Molecular and Cellular Biology
INDIA
B OF TECH, Biotechnology
Wendy Cheng
she/herENGLAND
BA, Natural Sciences (Biological)
Daniel Darling
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
BA, Biology
Sarina Ehteshamzadeh Ganjbakhsh
UNIV KENTUCKY LEXINGTON*
MS, Biological Sciences
IRAN
BSC, Cellular and Molecular Biology
Angela Gao
UC LOS ANGELES (UCLA)
BS, Mechanical Engineering
Sam Ghaffari-Kashani
He/Him/HisUC BERKELEY
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology
Can Goksal
he/him/hisUC BERKELEY
BA, Molecular & Cellular Biology
Michelle Grunberg
UC SANTA BARBARA
BA, Biology
Hyobin Lim
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
MS, Molecular Genetics
U WESTERN ONTARIO
BS MED SC, Biochemistry
Chang Liu
She/her/hersUNIV COLORADO BOULDER
BA, Integrative Physiology
Honors, Awards & Fellowships: Shurl & Kay Curci Scholarship
IMSD
Miaoxi Liu
Other
BSC, Immunology and Cell & Molecular biology
Paddy Liu
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
BS, Biological sciences; Philosophy
Brigitte Meyer
UNIV VIRGINIA
BS, Chemistry w/ Biochemistry Specialization
Megan Ostrowski
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
BA, Molecular Biology
Rafaella Shima
She/HerEARLHAM COLL EARLHAM SCH REL
BA, Biochemistry
Zhidong Tan
NANKAI UNIV
BS, Biological Science (Poling Class)
Eric Tang
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
MS, Biology (Cell and Molecular Biology)
BS, Biology (Cell and Molecular Biology)
Urvashi Thopte
she/her/hersCOLUMBIA U SCH GENERAL STUDIES
MA, Biotechnology
Other
BS, Microbiology
Carlo Vetralla
He/Him/HisUNIV DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA
MS, BIOTECHNOLOGY IN MEDICINE
BS, BIOTECHNOLOGY