Team

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)
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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. Derek Aspacio
Beckman Postdoc Fellow
NIH F32 Postdoc Fellow
(w/ Palczewski Lab, UCI)
Ph.D., UC Irvine
B.S., SDSU
(Contact)
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Dr. Miguel Alcantar
Chancellor’s Postdoc Fellow
(w/ Kruse Lab, Harvard Med)
Ph.D., MIT
B.S., UC San Diego
(Contact)
Vincent Hu
M.D./Ph.D. Student
B.S., UCSD
(Contact)
Yutong “Lexi” Yu
Ph.D. Student
NIH T32 Fellow
B.S., Peking University
(Contact)
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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
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)
Steven Xu
Ph.D. Student
B.S., McGill University
(Contact)
Diego Taquiri-Diaz
Jr. Specialist
B.Sc., Universidad Peruana
Cayetano Heredia
(Contact)
Kiyan Abel
Undergraduate Researcher
Goldwater Scholar
Katherine Ruhl
Undergraduate Researcher
Absar Ahmed
Undergraduate Researcher
Takiea Kampanartsanyakorn
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), Christy Chan (Undergraduate Staff, 2023-2026), Jonathan Clements (PhD Student, 2020-2025), 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), Sumbul Haider (PhD Student, 2020-2025), 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), Thais Tereza Aguiar dos Reis (Visiting PhD Student, 2026), 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), Rory Williams (Postdoc, 2022-2026), Brandon Wong (Postdoc, 2020-2022), Steven Xu (Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, 2024), Ziwei Zhong (MD/PhD Student, 2014-2021)