
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Technician, University of Michigan Medical School 1988-1993 (Vishva Dixit)
Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley 1998 (Mentor: Gian Garriga)
Postdoctoarl fellow, UCSF 1999-2005 (Mentor: Ulrike Heberlein)
Associate Investigator, The Gallo Center, UCSF 2005-2011

M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Greenwich, UK, 2010
Ph.D. in Molecular-Cellular Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of the Pacific, 2023


B.S. in Biology, Northeast Forestry University, 2017
M.Sc. in Biotechnology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2020





Lina Garcia, Postdoctoral Scholar, 2024-2026, now with Lisha Shao, University of Delaware

Brian Wang, Graduate student 2019-2025, Project Scientist 2025
Nicholas Reynaga, UC Merced Applied Math undergraduate, 2025-2026
Tayba Khan, SJV-Prime BS/MD undergraduate, 2025-2026

Donnoban Orozco Ramirez, Graduate Student, 2018-2025
Ansley Van Gorkom, CSU Stanislaus undergraduate, CCBM Scholar Summer 2025
Wesley Chang, UC Merced Biological Sciences ungergraduate 2025
Katrina Trinka, UC Merced Human Biology undergraduate, UROC Scholar Summer 2025
Gagandeep Kaur, UC Merced Human Biology undergraduate, UROC Scholar 2024-2025
Megha Sanghu, UC Merced Human Biology undergraduate, Laboratory Assistant 2024-2025

Cal Larnerd, Graduate Student 2019-2024, now Postdoctoral scholar with Emmanuel Perisse, Institute for Functional Genomics, Montpellier, France

Neha Kachewar, Postdoctoral Scholar, 2022-2024, now Associate Director of Research Informatics at Novartis, India
Munich Villanueva, Undergraduate, 2023-2024
Maria Nolazco, Undergraduate, 2023-2024
Juan Rios, Lab Assistant, 2022-2023
Anthony Lange, Graduate Student, 2017-2022, now postdoc with Sarah Ferri, University of Iowa

Sammy Villa, Graduate Student, 2017-2022, now postdoc at Calico Labs
Nailah Fatima, Undergrad, 2020-2022
Francisco Aguilar, Undergrad, 2020-2022
Anika Padala, Undergrad, 2019-2022
Pratik Adhikari, Graduate Student, 2016-2022
Alex Del Toro, Undergrad, 2019-2020, now grad student @ Brown

Dan Landayan, Graduate Student, 2013-2019, now postdoc with Nirao Shah, Stanford
Jennifer Zhou, Lab Technician, 2017-2019
Jesus Rascon, Undergrad, 2018-2019, now med student @ UAG Medical School, Guadalajara, MX
Dean Wu, Graduate Student, 2015-2018, now in Emily Moran's lab @ UC Merced

Sarah Parkhurst, Graduate Student, 2012-2017
Natalie Banh, Undergrad, 2015-2018
Harpreet Randhawa, Undergrad, 2015-2018
Reo Maynard, Visiting Masters Student, 2017, now graduate student @ UC Merced
Clarisse Macasaet, Undergrad, 2016-2017
Jovana Navarrete, Undergrad, Technician, 2014-2017, now @ U Washington Dept Neuroscience
Pedro Diaz-Parga, Visiting Masters Student, 2016, now graduate student @ UC Merced
Alexiane Luc, Visiting Scholar, 2016-2017
Linda Phorth, Undergraduate, 2014-2017
Greg Engel, Postdoc, 2012-2016. Assoc Prof, Castleton
Lawrence Fung, Undergraduate, 2014-2016
Winnie Wu, Undergraduate, 2014-2016. Appalachian College of Pharmacy in Virginia
Shahrukh Syed, Undergraduate, 2013-2015. medical student @ RFU
Maurice Jackson, Lab Assistant, 2012-2015
Alexandre Lebeau, Visiting Masters Student, 2014 - 2015
Arièle Legendre, Postdoc, 2012 - 2014
David Feldman, Lab Technician, 2012 - 2014. now MD
Van Thai, Undergraduate, 2014
Jean-Christophe Lone, Visiting Masters Student, 2013 - 2014.
Ben Ziman, Undergraduate, 2012 - 2013. Postdoc @ Cedar Sinai
Carly Stilphen, Undergraduate, 2012 - 2013. Now MD
Sunanda Marella, Postdoc, 2011
Julia (Lianqun) Wu, Technician, 2011
Willa Abrone, Laboratory Assistant, 2007 - 2011

Eric Kong, Technician, 2005 - 2010
Francesco Giorgetti, Technician, 2010
Kaidi He, Histologist extraordinaire, 2009-2011