Principal Investigators

Diana Bautista PhD dbautista [at] berkeley.edu 

Howard Hughes Investigator
Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology & of Neurobiology
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Ellen Lumpkin PhD lumpkin [at] berkeley.edu

Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology & of Neurobiology
​Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

POSTDOCS

​YOSHI BABA
Project Scientist
yb2264ucb [at] berkeley.edu

CHRISTOPHER ARP
chrisarp [at] berkeley.edu

OSCAR ARENAS
omasvc [at] berkeley.edu

​OLIVIA GOLDMAN
ogoldman [at] berkeley.edu

RAUL RAMOS
rramos [at] berkeley.edu

GRADUATE STUDENTS

LILLIAN MURPHY
lmurphy1 [at] berkeley.edu

KIM NGUYEN
kimberlynguyen8 [at] berkeley.edu 

SONALI MALI
smali [at] berkeley.edu

ZHONGYAN GONG
zhongyan.gong [at] berkeley.edu 

JULIANA VALENCIA LESMES
juvalenciale [at] berkeley.edu

SOPHIE OBAYASHI
sobayashi [at] berkeley.edu

KEVIN WILLIAMS
kevinjwwilliams [at] berkeley.edu

MAHER BUDRON
budron [at] berkeley.edu

CHRISTOPHER COOK
cook.675 [at] berkeley.edu

CAROLINE HE
caroline_he [at] berkeley.edu

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

CHRISSA FOSCOLOS
​ cfoscolos [at] berkeley.edu

LAB STAFF

CLIFF VUONG
c.vuong [at] berkeley.edu

UYEN VO
​uyenvo [at] berkeley.edu

ALEXANDER FLAMM
​ alexnflamm99 [at] berkeley.edi

LAB ALUMNI

ALEXANDRA ALONDRA ALVAREZ
Undergraduate
Fair Oaks Women's Health Center

PRAFULLA ARYAL
​Postdoc 
Senior Scientist at Visterra Inc. 

LESJE ATKINSON
Undergraduate
Practicing Physician

KATHERINE BEATTIE
Undergraduate 
MD/PhD Student at University of Pennsylvania

AMANDA CHANG
Masters Student
Clinical Psychology Student

SAMANTHA CHEUNG
​​​Postdoc

VENESSA CUADRADO
Laboratory Technician
​QC Investigation Support Specialist at Legend Biotech

RYAN DALTON
​Miller Fellow
​Data Science Manager at Apple

JESSICA DIEHL
Summer Undergraduate
Practicing Psychiatrist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

LINA DIMITROV
Undergraduate
Children's Mental Health Epidemiology & Prevention Fellow at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

TREVOR DOCTER
Undergraduate
PhD Student at UC Berkeley

LUCIA DUENAS-BIANCHI
Undergraduate
MD Student at University of Connecticut

DANIEL ESTANDIAN
Undergraduate
PhD Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DANNY FLORÉZ
Postdoc
Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University

NATALIA FONTECILLA
MD Student
Dermatology Resident at Johns Hopkins University

KRISTIN GERHOLD
PhD Student
Postdoc at Yale University

THEANNE GRIFFITH
Postdoc
Assistant Professor at UC Davis​

SOPHIE GREENBERG
MD Student​
Practicing Dermatologist

JAMI GORDILLO
Summer Undergraduate

HENRY HAEBERLE
​PhD Student
Applications Engineer at Thorlabs

BEN HOFFMAN
MD/PhD Student
Internal Medicine Resident at UCSF

ROSE HILL
PhD Student
Postdoc at Scripps Research Institute

CYNTHIA HUANG
Undergraduate
Digital Health Administrator at Diabetes Technology Sociaty

BLAIR JENKINS
MD/PhD Student
Dermatology Resident at Columbia University Irving Medical Center

SAMMY KATTA
Undergraduate
Scientific Legislative and Policy Analyst, NIGMS/NIH

NATALIE KUCIREK
Undergraduate
MD Student at UCSF

SRDJAN MAKSIMOVIC
Postdoc
Senior Research Scientist at Colgate-Palmolive

KARA MARSHALL
​PhD Student
Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine

SHANNAN MCCLAIN
Junior Research Specialist
MD/PhD at UC San Diego

DAYLE MCCLINTOCK
Lab Manager
Practicing Veterinarian

JOSEPH MEEUWSEN
Summer Undergraduate
PhD Student at Ohio State University

YALDA MOAYEDI
Postdoc
​Assistant Professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center

TAKESHI MORITA
PhD Student
Postdoc at Rockefeller University

NATASHA NAIDOO
Undergraduate
Product Manager at Pula Advisors

MASASHI NAKATANI
​Postdoc
Associate Professor at Keio University

AISLYN NELSON
MD/PhD Student
Practicing Dermatologist​

IFECHUKWU OKEKE Undergraduate
MD/PhD Student at UCSF

SHWETA PATEL
​Amgen Summer Scholar
Practicing Physician

MAURIZIO PELLEGRINO
​​​Postdoc
Head of Bioinformatics at Invitae

REBECCA PISKOROWSKI​​​
Postdoc
Director at Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris

JOSEPH POEN
Undergraduate
Vice President of Biotech Investment Banking at Credit Suisse

ZIAD RIFI
Undergraduate 
MD Student at UCLA

ROCIO RIVERA
Postdoc
Senior Vice President of La Mer, at The Estée Lauder Companies

VASILY ROSENBAUM
​​​Summer Undergraduate​

ELINA SERRANO
Undergraduate 
Surgery Intern at University of Washington

JAMIE SCHWENDINGER-SCHRECK
​Postdoc
Scientific Project Manager at Inscripta

BETH SIEGLER-RETCHLESS
​​Postdoc

BEN SLOBODNIK
​​​ Undergraduate
MD Student at California Northstate University

LYDIA THÉ
PhD Student
Associate Partner at McKinsey & Co.

CHI-KUN TONG
Postdoc
Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University

MAKOTO TSUNOZAKI
​​Postdoc
Associate Attorney at Knobbe Martens

BRYNE ULMSCHNIEDER
Amgen Summer Scholar
​PhD Student at Stanford University

CAROLYN WALSH
PhD Student
Postdoc at University of Michigan, IRACDA Program

SCOTT WELLNITZ
PhD Student
Professor at Rivermont Collegiate

SARAH WILSON
PhD Student
Chief Managing Director at Dragonfly Mental Health

JUSTIN WONG
Undergraduate
MD Student at UT Southwestern

KARIN WU
Undergraduate
Practicing Physician