Team Members

Chang C. Liu Principal Investigator (Bio, Contact)	Fanny Low Lab Manager (Contact)	Dr. Babu Narayanareddy Project Scientist Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science (Contact)

Dr. Anshika Gupta Project Scientist Ph.D., UIUC (Contact)	Dr. Helen Hobbs Helen Hay Whitney Postdoc Fellow Ph.D., UC Berkeley B.S., Oregon State University (Contact)	Dr. Rory Williams Hewitt Postdoc Fellow Ph.D., Caltech B.S., University of Minnesota (Contact)

Dr. Derek Aspacio Beckman Postdoc Fellow (w/ Palczewski Lab, UCI) Ph.D., UC Irvine B.S., SDSU (Contact)	Dr. Miguel Alcantar Chancellor’s Postdoc Fellow (w/ Kruse Lab, Harvard Med) Ph.D., MIT B.S., UC San Diego (Contact)	Jonathan Clements Ph.D. Student B.S., Caltech (Contact)

Vincent Hu M.D./Ph.D. Student B.S., UCSD (Contact)	Sumbul Haider Ph.D. Student B.S., UC Riverside (Contact)	Yutong “Lexi” Yu Ph.D. Student NIH T32 Fellow B.S., Peking University (Contact)

Alireza Tanoori Ph.D. Student B.S., University of Tehran (Contact)	Kyla Pierce Ph.D. Student NIH T32 Fellow B.S., UC Santa Barbara (Contact)	Caroline Cannistra Ph.D. Student (w/ Yu Lab, UCI) NIH T32 Fellow B.S., University of Washington (Contact)

Jacob Hambalek Ph.D. Student B.S. and M.S., UCLA (Contact)	Takashi Inagaki Ph.D. Student B.S. and M.S., Nagoya University (Contact)	Diego Taquiri-Diaz Jr. Specialist B.Sc., Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Contact)

Katherine Ruhl Undergraduate Researcher	Kiyan Abel Undergraduate Researcher	Absar Ahmed Undergraduate Researcher

Takiea Kampanartsanyakorn Undergraduate Staff	Christy Chan Undergraduate Staff	Ashley Anisi Undergraduate Staff

Alumni

Mohamad Abedi (Jr. Specialist, 2014), Adrian Arrietta (Jr. Specialist, 2013), Garri Arzumanyan (PhD Student, 2015-2020), Santiago Alvarado (Masters Student, 2019-2020), Delaney Carlin (Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, 2024), Courtney Carlson (PhD Student, 2017-2023), Molly Ced (Undergraduate Staff, 2020-2021), Katrine Dailey (Visiting PhD Student, 2025), Yanyang Fang (Undergraduate Staff, 2022-2023), Catalina Dentzel Helmy (Jr. Specialist, 2021-2023), Ria Deshpande (PhD Student, 2018-2023), Chris Doering (High School Student Intern, 2014), Yanmiao Du (Jr. Specialist, 2020-2021), Anna Dumitriu (Artist-in-residence, 2015-2016), Jimmy Duong (Undergraduate Researcher, 2014-2016), Christien Dykstra (Visiting PhD Student, 2025), Michelle Ficht (Undergraduate Researcher, 2019-2021), Kelsey Fung (Jr. Specialist, 2016), Yuichi Furuhata (Postdoc, 2022-2025), Keoni Gandall (High School Student Intern, 2014-2017), Joseph Grotts (Jr. Specialist, 2016-2018), Justin Hitomi (Undergraduate Researcher, 2013-2015), Ming Ho (Masters Student, 2019-2020), Crystal Huong (Undergraduate Staff, 2013), Mautasim Hussain (Jr. Specialist, 2021-2023), Ashley Im (Undergraduate Staff, 2022-2024), Akihito Inoue (Visiting PhD Student, 2022), Eamon Jahani (Undergraduate Researcher, 2016-2018), Rishi Jajoo (Postdoc, 2015-2017), Alex Javanpour (PhD Student, 2014-2020), Kendall Kearns (Undergraduate Researcher, 2013-2014), Daniel Lee (Project Scientist, 2024), Bettina Lengger (Visiting PhD Student, 2022), Xiang Li (PhD Student, 2013-2018), Beide Liu (Undergraduate Researcher, 2019), Tate Lone (Jr. Specialist, 2017-2018), Theresa Loveless (Postdoc, 2016-2021; Project Scientist, 2021-2023), Rosana Molina (Postdoc, 2021-2022), Margaret Mulcare (Admin, 2016-2019), Kianna Nguyen (Jr. Specialist, 2018-2019), Muaeen Obadi (Jr. Specialist, 2015-2017), Oluwatimileyin Ogundele (Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, 2024), Nikit Patel (Postdoc, 2021-2022), Alexandra Paulk (Masters Student, 2020-2024), Alexander (Olek) Pisera (PhD Student, 2020-2024; Postdoc 2025), Arjun Ravikumar (PhD Student, 2013-2018; Postdoc, 2019-2021), Ryan Rezvani (Masters Student, 2015-2020), Gordon Rix (PhD Student, 2017-2023; Postdoc, 2024), Justin Sadownick (Undergraduate Researcher, 2018-2020), Mason Schechter (Jr. Specialist, 2018-2019), Pratik Shah (Postdoc, 2015-2017), Arushi Singhai (Undergraduate Researcher, 2019-2022), Michaela Slánská (Visiting PhD Student, 2024), Kyle Su (Undergraduate Researcher, 2015-2016), Julianne Vu (Admin, 2020-2023), Cyndi Wang (Undergraduate Staff, 2014-2017), Ming Wang (Undergraduate Staff, 2013-2015), Elliot Warner (Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, 2017-2018), Alon Wellner (Postdoc, 2018-2023), Brandon Wong (Postdoc, 2020-2022), Steven Xu (Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, 2024), Ziwei Zhong (MD/PhD Student, 2014-2021)