Trainees
Zhainib A. Amir
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Investigating artery differentiation during development in mouse and human cells”
- Advisor: Kristy Red-Horse
- Publications: In Process
Charlotte Brannon
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: "Collective cell behavior in multicellular systems - Biomineralization in sea cucumbers to tissue growth in Trichoplax adhaerens"
- Advisor: Manu Prakash
- Publications: In Process
Rachel Brown
- Department: Biochemistry
- Research Title: "Mechanism of CENP-A assembly at the centromere"
- Advisor: Aaron Straight
- Publications: In Process
Min Sung Cho
- Department: Structural Biology
- Research Title: “High-throughput transcription factor analysis using microfluidic devices”
- Advisor: Polly Fordyce
- Publications: In Process
Mai Dvorak
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Characterizing interactions between host and gut microbes”
- Advisor: Ami Bhatt
- Publications: In Process
Victoria Belle Grant
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Investigating patterns of genetic variation in natural populations”
- Advisor: Molly Schumer and Dmitri Petrov
- Publications: In Process
Lindsey Madsen Meservey
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “RNA editing in keratinocytes”
- Advisor: Paul Khavari
- Publications: In Process
Jeff Naftaly
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “The role of CXCL12 signaling in cardiac development and regeneration”
- Advisor: Kristy Red-Horse
- Publications: In Process
Evan Saldivar
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Regulation and efficiency of plastid biochemistry in Arabidopsis thaliana.”
- Advisor: Sue Rhee
- Publications: In Process
Danica Schmidtke
- Department: Micro Biology and Immunology
- Research Title: “Understanding the infection mechanism/life cycle of prototypic-crassphage and apreviously isolated crass-like phages”
- Advisor: Ami Bhatt and Gavin Sherlock
- Publications: In Process
Karen Shih
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “The fitness landscape of lung cancer and therapeutic responses”
- Advisor: Dmitri Petrov
- Publications: In Process
Sebastian Toro Arana
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Genetic Adaptation to Climate in Plants”
- Advisor: Moisés Expósito-Alonso
- Publications: In Process
Sean Waterton
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Generation of Biological Products from CO2”
- Advisor: Drew Endy
- Publications: In Process
Joleen Cheah
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Studying the translocation of proteins and RNA.”
- Advisor: Alice Ting
- Publications: In Process
Joel Erberich
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Study of adaptation in the stomatal cellular lineage in plants.”
- Advisor: Dominique Bergmann
- Publications: In Process
Sarah Frail
- Department: Biochemistry
- Research Title: “Studying Rhopalodia gibba a freshwater diatom containing a nitrogen fixing cyanobacterial endosymbiont”
- Advisor: Ellen Yeh
- Publications: In Process
Billie Goolsby
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “The Neural Basis of Coordinated Parenting in Mimic Poison Frogs (Ranitomeya imitator)”
- Advisor: Lauren O'Connell
- Publications: In Process
Samantha Gumbin
- Department: Molecular and Cellular Physiology (MCP) Stanford Medicine
- Research Title: “Studying the role of the ubiquitin like protein, UFM1 in ER protein biogenesis & degradation.”
- Advisor: Ron Kopito
- Publications: In Process
Taylar Paige Hammond
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Viewing RB1 through noncanonical lenses”
- Advisor: Julien Sage
- Publications: In Process
Dane Kawano
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Understanding how polarized microtubule networks are created & maintained in neurons.”
- Advisor: Kang Shen
- Publications: In Process
Luke Lynch
- Department: Biochemistry
- Research Title: “Eukaryotic DNA replication”
- Advisor: Gheorghe Chistol
- Publications: In Process
Rachel Ng
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: "Investigating the Function of Phosphatases in Centrosome Inactivation"
- Advisor: Jessica Feldman
- Publications: In Process
Gabriel Tauber
- Department: Biochemistry
- Research Title: “Studying the thermodynamics and kinetics of Puf protein binding and the role for sub interactions like electrostatics and stacking.”
- Advisor: Daniel Herschlag
- Publications: In Process
Lauren Varanese
- Department: Microbiology and Immunology
- Research Title: "Discovery of host pathways critical for viral infection"
- Advisor: Jan Carette
- Publications: In Process
Jessica Zhang
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Insights into Borrelia burgdorferi Plasmid Partitioning”
- Advisor: Christine Jacobs-Wagner
- Publications: In Process
Cecelia Brown-Fleming
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Development of small molecule inhibitor of cyclin D-Cdk 4,6”
- Advisor: Jan Skotheim
- Publications: In Process
Jinho Jeong
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Determining the Role of NSD2 in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma”
- Advisor: Or Gozani
- Publications: In Process
Martha Alexis Kahlson
- Department: Biochemistry
- Research Title: “Characterizing a Novel Protein S-acyltransferase Complex Comprisiong ZDHHC5 and GOLGA7”
- Advisor: Scott Dixon
- Publications: In Process
Aris John Kare
- Department: Bioengineering (BioE)
- Research Title: “High-Resolution Genomic and Spatial Profiling of Combinatorial Imunotherapies”
- Advisor: Katherine Ferrara
- Publications: Published Literature
Korbin Michael Kleczko
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Developing Huntington Superchaperones”
- Advisor: Judith Frydman
- Publications: In Process
Alex Lessenger
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Tissue-specific cell size regulation”
- Advisor: Jessica Feldman
- Publications: In Process
Lauren Elizabeth Pope
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Regulation of Ferroptosis by GPX4”
- Advisor: Scott Dixon
- Publications: In Process
Carin Ragland
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Stress and slime: elucidating root mucilage regulation for improved stress tolerance and enhanced microbe associations”
- Advisor: Jose Dinneny
- Publications: In Process
Livia Wyss
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Characterizing CNS Regeneration in Planarians”
- Advisor: Bo Wang
- Publications: In Process
Yue Zhang
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Hypoxia regulation of a sensory stem cell niche in the lung”
- Advisor: Mark Krasnow
- Publications: In Process
David Armenta
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Investigating Macropinocytosis as a Mechanism to Prevent Ferroptosis in Cysteine-Starved Cells”
- Advisor: Scott Dixon
- Publications: Published Literature
Devin Bradburn
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: "Project is focused on understanding how C16-CN interactions drive invasion and proliferation"
- Advisor: Martha Cyert
- Publications: Published Literature
Ran Cheng
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: "Elucidating the cancer secretome and how it affects the tumor microenvironment"
- Advisor: Peter Jackson
- Publications: In Process
Joel Francis
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: "Non-histone protein methylation in the regulation of gene expression"
- Advisor: Or Gozani
- Publications: Published Literature
Adam Kirosingh
- Department: Microbiology and Immunology
- Research Title: "Identifying and characterizing novel host genes protecting against Plasmodium chabaudi infection"
- Advisor: Prasanna Jagannathan
- Publications: In Process
Elisabeth Meyer
- Department: Biochemistry
- Research Title: "Regulation of alternative splicing by small non-coding RNAs and repetitive genomic elements"
- Advisor: Julia Salzman
- Publications: In Process
Victor Naturale
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: “Identifying in vivo Mechanisms of Symmetry Breaking and Polarity Establishment in Epithelial Cells”
- Advisor: Jessica Feldman
- Publications: Published Literature
Anay Reddy
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: "Understanding the relationship between protein folding and neuronal morphogenesis"
- Advisor: Kang Shen
- Publications: In Process
Pamela Rios Coronado
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: "Investigating the contribution of Vascular endothelial growth factor-C (VEGFC) in coronary arterial growth"
- Advisor: Kristy Red-Horse
- Publications: Published Literature
Kevin Shih
- Department: Biochemistry
- Research Title: "A RNA Calculator Based Paper Diagnostic for Tuberculosis"
- Advisor: Rhiju Das
- Publications: In Process
Samuel Bray
- Department: Bioengineering (BioE)
- Research Title: "Description of research project and progress: I am working towards quantitatively understanding how intracellular molecular interaction drive community assembly and structure in microbial communities."
- Advisor: Bo Wang
- Publications: Published Literature
Peter Chou
- Department: Biochemistry
- Research Title: "Molecular tools for spatial readout of gene features."
- Advisor: Pehr Harbury
- Publications: In Process
Jasmine Moshiri
- Department: Microbiology & Immunology (M&I) Stanford Medicine
- Research Title: "Determine the mechanism by which the autophagy pathway mediates dengue viral maturation and explore the manipulation of this pathway for development of anti-viral therapeutics."
- Advisor: Karla Kirkegaard
- Publications: In Process
Chandni Patel
- Department: Biochemistry
- Research Title: "Investigating how the second messenger, 2’3’-cGAMP, is regulated to further understand how the STING pathway in the innate immune system can be activated and inactivated."
- Advisor: Lingyin, Li
- Publications: In Process
Kade Pettie
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: "Linking Genome Organization to Phenotype in Cell Lines from Diverse Human Populations."
- Advisor: Hunter Fraser
- Publications: Published Literature
Christopher Ritchie
- Department: Biochemistry
- Research Title: "Elucidating the extracellular role of the second messenger 2'3'-cGAMP in immune detection of cancers."
- Advisor: Lingyin Li
- Publications: Published Literature
Ivana Serrano Lachapel
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: "To evaluate how CCT chaperone assembly state and phosphorylation affects its activity in a noncanonical way in normal cells and altered cells such as cancer cells."
- Advisor: Judith Frydman
- Publications: In Process
Dirk Spencer
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: "Asymmetric cell divisions (ACD) are ubiquitous throughout all forms of life and it might be fair to argue that it is necessary for multicellularity."
- Advisor: Dominique Bergmann
- Publications: In Process
Robert Bierman
- Department: Biochemistry
- Research Title: "Understanding annotated and novel RNA splicing products."
- Advisor: Julia Salzman
- Publications: Published Literature
KC Farrell
- Department: Biology
- Research Title: "Investigation of the relationships between centrioles, cilia, and polarity."
- Advisor: Tim Stearns
- Publications: In Process
Shi-An Chen
Mike Van
Former Trainees
Name | position |
---|---|
Katherine Amberg-Johnson, Ph.D. (2018) |
Senior Scientist at Schrödinger |
Benjamin Bell, Ph.D. (2021) | Recent Graduate: Currently Interviewing |
Clayton Brown, Ph.D. (2019) |
Recent Graduate: Currently Interviewing |
Shengya Cao, Ph.D. (2018) |
Associate Scientist at Evotec |
Caleb Chan, Ph.D. (2018) |
Postdoctoral Researcher with HHMI |
Joseph Charalel, MS (2022) |
Senior Associate at Pivotal Life Sciences |
Shein Ei Cho, MS (2019) | Associate Scientist at Evotec |
Kevin C. Heart, Ph.D. (2018) | Scientist at IGM Biosciences, Inc. |
Amanda Jacobson, Ph.D. (2017) | Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University |
San Kimmey, Ph.D. (2020) | Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University |
Pin-Joe Ko, Ph.D. (2019) |
Research Scientist at SyntheX, Inc. |
Antoine Koehl, Ph.D. (2019) |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Miller Fellow at University of California, Berkeley |
Laura Lee, Ph.D. (2019) |
Postdoctoral Scholar at New York University |
Joo Lee, Ph.D. (2019) |
Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University |
Chao Liu, Ph.D. (2018) |
Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University |
Thomas Meister, Ph.D. (2021) | Recent Graduate: Still Interviewing |
Kevin Meng, Ph.D. (2019) |
Scientist at Kite Pharma |
Mariya Mirvis, Ph.D. (2019) |
Postdoctoral Researcher at UC San Francisco |
Ahmad Nabhan, Ph.D. (2019) |
Postdoctoral Scholar at Genentech |
Laura Persson Ph.D. (2020) | Recent Graduate: Still Interviewing |
James Russell, Ph.D. (2018) |
Scientist at Zymergen Inc. |
Naomi Genuth, Ph.D. (2022) |
Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University |
Abigail Simmons, Ph.D. (2018) |
Science and Technology Policy Fellow at AAAS |
Ariana Sanches, Ph.D. (2021) |
Principal Scientific Researcher at Genetech |
Daniel Sprockett, Ph.D. (2019) |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital |
Miranda Stratton, Ph.D. (2019) |
Assistant Director for Biosciences Diversity Programs at Stanford University |
Tianying Su, Ph.D. (2018) |
Postdoctoral Scholar at UC San Francisco |