POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Courtney Griffin, PhD, 2001-2008 (Current position: Professor, Academia)
Michelle Booden, PhD, 2001–2003 (Current position: Technology licensing, Government)
Yonghua Yang, PhD, 2001–2003 (Current position: Professor, Academia)
Puneeta Arora, PhD, 2005–2008 (Current position: Patent Agent, Private)
May M. Paing, PhD, 2005–2008 (Current position: Staff Scientist, Academia)
Jung-A Choi, PhD, 2009–2010 (Current position: Research Scientist)
Allen Liu, PhD, 2009–2011 (Current position: Associate Professor, Academia)
Unice JK Soh, PhD, 2008–2012 (Current position: Medical Science Liaison, Industry)
Aaron Snead, PhD, 2012–2013 (Current position: Principal Scientist, Biotech)
Huilan Lin, PhD, 2009–2015 (Current position: Senior Scientist, Biotech)
Buxin Chen, PhD, 2008–2015 (Current position: Scientist, Biotech)
Terri Stoner, PhD, 2013–2015 (Current position: Lecturer, Academia)
Michael Dores, PhD, 2008–2016 (Current position: Associate Professor, Academia)
Thomas Smith, PhD, 2016–2017 (Current position: BioinformatisXXX, Biotech)
Neil Grimsey, PhD, 2009–2018 (Current position: Assistant Professor, Academia)
Sravan Girada, PhD, 2018–2019 (Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia)
Wen-An Pan, PhD, 2016–2020, (Current position: Senior Scientist, Industry)
Olivia Molinar-Inglis, PhD, 2016–2021 (Current position: Program Officer, Government)
Cierra Birch, PhD, 2017–2021 (Current position: Molecular Science Liaison, Industry)
Monica Gonzalez Ramirez, PhD, 2019-2024 (Current position: Administration, Academia)
Huaping Qin, PhD, 2021-2024 (Current position: Staff Research Associate, Academia)
GRADUATE STUDENTS
May M. Paing, PhD, 2001-2005 (UNC Chapel Hill, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program)
Breann Wolfe Barker, PhD, 2003-2007 (UNC Chapel Hill, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program)
Tiffany Ricks, PhD, 2004-2010 (UNC Chapel Hill, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program)
Angela Russo, PhD, 2005-2009 (UNC Chapel Hill, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program)
Antonio Soto, PhD, 2008-2013 (UCSD, BMS Graduate Program)
Isabel Canto Cordova, PhD, 2009-2014 (UCSD, BMS Graduate Program)
Thomas Smith, PhD, 2010-2016 (UCSD, BMS Graduate Program)
Patrick Menzies, MS, 2014-2016 (UCSD, BMS Graduate Program)
Marissa Goo, PhD, 2013-2017 (UCSD, Biological Sciences Graduate Program)
Bryan Stephens, PhD, 2011-2017 (UCSD, BMS Graduate Program)
Cara Rada, PhD, 2015-2020 (UCSD, BMS Graduate Program)
Aleena Arakaki, PhD, 2015-2020 (UCSD, BMS Graduate Program)
Jessica Lawrence, PhD, 2016-2020 (UCSD, BMS Graduate Program)
Helen Wedegaertner, PhD, 2018-2023 (UCSD, BMS Graduate Program)
Norton Cheng, PhD, 2019-2024 (UCSD, BMS Graduate Program)
RESEARCH STAFF
Anu Gullapalli, BS, 2003-2006 (UNC Chapel Hill, SRA1)
Yu Ding, BS, 2003-2006 (UNC Chapel Hill, SRA1)
Ying Lin, BS, 2017-2021 (UCSD, SRA2)
Carolyne Bardeleben, PhD, 2022-present (UCSD, SRA4)
Huaping Qin, PhD, 2024-present (UCSD, SRA3)
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Tom Chen, Duke University (2000)
Sarah Brautigam, Davidson College (2001)
Tiana Garrett, Virginia State University (2001-2002)
Kia Jackson, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (2003)
Aliya McIver, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2004)
Amanda Powell, Shaw University (2005)
Diana Ntonlolo, Winston Salem State University (2006)
Mallory Demonch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2007-2008)
Maria Rodriguez, UC San Diego (IMSD) (2008-2009)
Steven Almos, Southwestern Community College (UCSD-HHMI, 2009)
William A. Montagne, University of Oregon (Pharmacology-SURF, 2010 & 2011)
Phillip Le, UC San Diego (2010-2013)
Carlos Roston Green, University of San Francisco (MSTP-SURF, 2010)
Eliseo Rivas, UC San Diego (MSTP-SURF, 2011)
Hannes Buck, Amherst College (MSTP-SURF, 2012 & 2013)
Jasmine Kyung, UC San Diego (2012-2013)
Cattien Phan, UC San Diego (2013-2014)
Stefany Rubio, San Diego State University (Pharmacology-SURF, 2014)
Keaira Thornton, Norfolk State University (MSTP-SURF, 2014)
Consuelo Sauceda, San Marcos State University (STARS, 2014)
Jeffrey Liang, UC San Diego (2012-2015)
Francisco Mendez, UC San Diego (IMSD, 2012-2015)
Luisa Coronel, UC San Diego (IMSD, 2013-2015)
Jasmine Kyung, UC San Diego (Pharm SURF, 2015)
Francisco Peralta, San Diego City College (IRACDA SURF, 2016)
Mauricio Marquez Palencia, San Diego City College & UC San Diego (MSTP-SURF 2015, IMSD 2015-2017)
Celyne Moh, UC San Diego (2015-2017)
Julia Li, UC San Diego (2015-2017)
Rachan Narala, UC San Diego (Regents Scholar, Eureka Scholar, Pharm SURF 2014-2018)
Serena Pang, UC San Diego (2017-2018)
Elias Contrubis, Vassar College (Pharm SURF, 2018)
Hilda Mejia Pena, San Diego City College & UC San Diego (IRACDA SURF 2016, IMSD 2016-2019)
Metztli Cisneros, UC San Diego (IMSD 2017-2019, UC TRDRP Cornelius Hopper Supplement, Pharm SURF 2018)
Alexa Valladolid, UC San Diego (IMSD 2018-2019)
Talia Elliott, UC San Diego (2017-2020)
Victoria Turcotte, UC San Diego (2019-2020)
Logan Chinn, UC San Diego (2018-2020)
Ivette Roca-Mercado, UC San Diego (IMSD 2019-2020)
Alexis Garcia, San Diego City College (IRACDA SURF, 2019-2020)
Robertha Amezola, UC San Diego (2019-2020)
Jose Adame, UC San Diego (IMSD 2019-present)
Yanet Olvera, Palomar College, CSU San Marcos (STEMULATE, 2021)
Jennifer Osuna, Imperial Valley College, UC Riverside (STEMULATE, 2021)
Mekdelawit Yitayih, UC San Diego (PATHS and TRELS Scholar, 2022-2023)
Marissa Yu, UC San Diego (2021-2023)
Michelle Gonzalez Rodas, UC San Diego (2021-2024)
Chloe Edwards, UC San Diego (PHARM SURF, 2022-present)
Nam Nguyen, UC San Diego (2023, TRELS Scholar, 2023)
Calvin Luu, UC San Diego (2023-present)
Tyler Simi, UC San Diego (2024-present)
Hannah Higa, UC San Diego (2024-present)
Xiaoyi Yan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzen (2024, visiting scholar)