MSTP Alumni

Jason Adams

• Email: jwa002@ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Colorado (2014), B.S. Human Biology, B.A. Psychology
• Graduate Program: Neuroscience
• Research Interests: Neuroscience, Endocrinology/Metabolism
• Laboratory Rotation: Jeff Kelly (Su '16), Alysson Muotri (Su '17)
• Thesis Lab: Alysson Muotri
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Child Neurology at UC San Diego Medical Center 

Joanna Coker

• Email: jkcoker@health.ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of California, San Diego (2014), B.S. Human Biology
• Graduate Program: BMS
• Research Interests: Microbiome, Infection, Glycobiology
• Laboratory Rotation: Christina Sigurdson (Su '16), Anjana Rao, Karsten Zengler (Su '17)
• Thesis Lab: Karsten Zengler
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical at Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University
• Publications (PubMed)

Erin Coonahan

• Email: ecoonaha@health.ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: Tufts University (2012), B.S. Biomedical Engineering; University of Oxford (2019), Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences
• Graduate Program: NIH Partners Program (OxCam)
• Thesis Lab: Dr. Carole Long (NIAD, NIH), Professor Maarten DeVos (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Oxford University), Professor Joel Tarning (Mahidol Oxford Research Unit)
• Thesis Title: An aptamer-based sensor for the detection of antimalarial drugs
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Internal Medicine - Physician Scientist at the University of Colorado

Andrea Dickey

• Email: adickey@health.ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley (2014), B.S. Bioengineering
• Graduate Program: Biology
• Research Interests: Biochemistry, Cytoskeleton, Neuroscience, Bioengineering
• Laboratory Rotation: Samara Reck-Peterson (Su '16), Larry Goldstein, Yishi Jin (Su '17)
• Thesis Lab: Samara Reck-Peterson
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Pathlogy - Anatomic and Clinical at the UC San Francisco Medical Center
• Publications (PubMed)

Cong Dinh

• Email: cbdinh@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University (2015), B.S. Bioengineering, Material Sciences
• Graduate Program: Biology
• Research Interests: Bioengineering
• Laboratory Rotation: Shyni Varghese (Su '15), Gert Cauwenberghs and Sandra Encalada, Scripps Research (Su '16)
• Thesis Lab: Rachel Dutton
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Pediatrics - Research at UC San Diego Medical Center

Bethany Fixsen

• Email: bfixsen@health.ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Chicago (2013), B.A. Biology
• Graduate Program: BMS
• Research Interests: Immunology/Infection
• Laboratory Rotation: Shane Crotty, LIAI (Su '15), Victor Nizet (Su '16), Chris Glass (Su '16)
• Thesis Lab: Chris Glass
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Emily Ho

• Email: e2ho@health.ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Chicago (2013), B.A. Biology, Psychology
• Graduate Program: Neuroscience, OB/Gyn & Reproductive Sciences
• Research Interests: Neuroscience, Reproductive Endocrinology
• Laboratory Rotation: Rusty Gage (Su '15), John Kelsoe (Su '16), Nick Spitzer (Su '16)
• Thesis Lab: Pamela Mellon
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cleveland Clinic Foundation
• Publications (PubMed)

James (Jake) Hocker

• Email: jhocker@ucsd.edu 
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Wisconsin (2014), B.S. Medical Microbiology and Immunology
• Graduate Program: BMS
• Research Interests: Genetics/Gene Regulation
• Laboratory Rotation: Cornelis Murre (Su '16), Bing Ren, Ananda Goldrath (Su '17)
• Thesis Lab: Bing Ren
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Evan Masutani

• Email: emasutan@health.ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University (2014), B.S. Engineering, Bioengineering
• Graduate Program: Bioengineering
• Research Interests: Radiology, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Hemodynamics, Biomechanics, Bioengineering
• Laboratory Rotation: Neil Chi (Su '16), Adam Engler, Albert Hsiao (Su '17)
• Thesis Lab: Adam Engler & Albert Hsiao
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Radiology - Diagnostic at UC San Diego Medical Center
• Publications (Google Scholar)

Quynh Nguyen

• Email: q9nguyen@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015), B.S. Biology
• Graduate Program: Biology
• Research Interests: Immunology/Infection, Cancer Biology, Epidemiology/ Public Health
• Laboratory Rotation: Ye Zheng (Su '15), Luke Wiseman (Su '16), Emily Troemel (Su '16) Ananda Goldrath (Su '16)
• Thesis Lab: Ananda Goldrath
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Pediatrics - Research at UC San Diego Medical Center

Meghana Pagadala

• Email: mpagadala@health.ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: California Institute of Technology (2016), B.S. Chemistry
• Graduate Program: BMS
• Research Interests: Cancer Genomics, Machine Learning
• Laboratory Rotation: Rommie Amaro, Ben Cravatt, Nicola Allen (Su '16), Paul Mischel, Ben Cravatt (Su '17), Hannah Carter (Wi '19),
• Thesis Lab: Hannah Carter & Jill Mesirov
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering

Maribel Patiño

• Email: mapatino@ucsd.edu 
• Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley (2014), B.A. Molecular Biology
• Graduate Program: Neuroscience
• Research Interests: Neuroscience
• Laboratory Rotation: Christine Gremel (Su '16), Ed Callaway, Larry Goldstein (Su '17)
• Thesis Lab: Ed Callaway, Salk Institute
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Psychiatry at UC San Diego Medical Center

Junmi Saikia

• Email: jsaikia@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Duke University (2014), B.S. Neuroscience
• Graduate Program: Neuroscience
• Research Interests: Neuroscience
• Laboratory Rotation: Roberto Malinow (Su '14), Subhojit Roy, Kristen Baldwin (Su '15), Greg Lemke (Su '16), Binhai Zheng (Su '17)
• Thesis Lab: Binhai Zheng
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Radiology - Diagnostic at UC San Francisco Medical Center

Erica Silva

• Email: e5silva@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University (2012), B.S. Biology
• Graduate Program: BMS
• Research Interests: Neuroscience, Stem Cells
• Laboratory Rotation: Rafael Bejar (Su '14), Trey Ideker (Su '15)
• Thesis Lab: Trey Ideker
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Emergency Medicine at Stanford University

Albert Song

• Email: albertsong@ucsd.edu 
• Undergraduate Institution: Northwestern University (2015), B.A. Biology
• Graduate Program: Scripps Research
• Research Interests: Immunology/Infection, Chemistry/Biochemistry
• Laboratory Rotation: Ardem Patapoutian, Scripps Research (Su '16), Matt Daugherty, Gabe Lander (Su '17)
• Thesis Lab: Gabe Lander, Scripps Research
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Radiology - Diagnostic at UC San Diego Medical Center

Ben Tsuda

• Email: btsuda@health.ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Harvard University (2012), B.S. Applied Mathematics/Physics; University of Cambridge (2013), M.Phil. Computational Biology
• Graduate Program: Neuroscience
• Research Interests: Learning and Memory, Neuroscience, Machine Learning/AI, Bioinformatics, Endocrinology and Metabolism
• Laboratory Rotation: Kenta Asahina (Su '16), Terry Sejnowski, Salk; Geoffrey Schoenbaum, NIH (Su '17)
• Thesis Lab: Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Psychiatry - Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Publications (Google Scholar)
• Publications (PubMed)

Helen Wang

• Email: h6wang@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Yale University (2014), B.S. Biomedical Engineering
• Graduate Program: Neuroscience
• Research Interests: Neuroscience and Bioengineering
• Laboratory Rotation: Sam Pfaff (Su '15), Nicola Allen, Salk (Su '16), Ed Callaway, Salk (Su '16)
• Thesis Lab: Ed Calloway, Salk Institute
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Child Neurology at Children's National Medical Center

Lawrence Wang

• Email: ltwang@health.ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Haverford College (2014), B.A. Chemistry, Concentration in Biochemistry
• Graduate Program: NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program
• Research Interests: Vaccines, Monoclonal Antibodies, Malaria
• Laboratory Rotation: Elizabeth Winzeler, UCSD; Robert Seder, NIH; Simon Draper, Oxford
• Thesis Lab: Robert Seder, NIH; Simon Draper, Oxford
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Internal Medicine - Research at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell

Hunter Bennett

• Email: h1bennett@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington (2014), B.S. Biomedical Engineering
• Graduate Program: BMS
• Research Interests: Gene Expression Regulation, Epigenetics, Genomics, Immunology, Cancer Genetics
• Laboratory Rotation: Trey Ideker (Su '15), Sam Pfaff (Su '16), Chris Glass (Su '16)
• Thesis Lab: Chris Glass
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Internal Medicine, Stanford Health
• Science Direct Publication
• bioRxiv Publication (PDF)

Charles Dickey

• Email: cdickey@health.ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington (2014), B.S. Neurobiology, B.F.A. Digital Arts & Experimental Media
• Graduate Program: Neurosciences
• Research Interests: Human Neurophysiology, Intracranial Recordings, Brain Oscillations, Plasticity, Memory
• Laboratory Rotation: Eric Halgren (Su '16), Terry Sejnowksi (Su '16)
• Thesis Lab: Eric Halgren
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Psychiatry & Research, Stanford Health
• Publications (PubMed)

Kyle Marra

• Email: kmarra@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Boston College (2012), B.S. Physics and Pre-Med
• Graduate Program: Bioengineering
• Research Interests: Bioengineering
• Laboratory Rotation: Todd Coleman (Su '14), Christian Metallo, Martin Friedlander (Su '15)
• Thesis Lab: Martin Friedlander, Scripps Research
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Ophthalmology, UCSD
• Publications (PubMed)

Daniella McDonald

• Email: dnmacdona@health.ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of California, San Diego (2011) B.S. Human Biology
• Graduate Program: BMS
• Research Interests: Tissue Engineering, CRISPR-Cas9, Human Development, Stem Cell Biology, LGBTQ+ Health Inequities
• Laboratory Rotation: Ron Evans (Su '15), Karen Christman (Su '16)
• Thesis Lab: Prashant Mali
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Psychiatry, UCLA
• Wiley Publication
• LiebertPub Publication
• Publications (PubMed)

Denis Smirnov

• Email: dsmirnov@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington (2014) B.S. Biochemistry, Neurobiology
• Graduate Program: Neuroscience
• Research Interests: Neuroscience, Pharmacology/Drug Discovery
• Laboratory Rotation: Athina Markou (Su '15), David Salmon (Su '16), James Brewer (Su '16)
• Thesis Lab: James Brewer 
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Jennifer Chousal

• Email: dsmirnov@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington (2014) B.S. Biochemistry, Neurobiology
• Graduate Program: Neuroscience
• Research Interests: Neuroscience, Pharmacology/Drug Discovery
• Laboratory Rotation: Athina Markou (Su '15), David Salmon (Su '16), James Brewer (Su '16)
• Thesis Lab: James Brewer
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Robert Kim

• Email: r8kim@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Johns Hopkins University (2012), B.S. Applied Math and Statistics, Biomedical Engineering
• Graduate Department: Neuroscience
• Research Interests: Neuroscience
• Laboratory Rotation: Terry Sejnowski, Sam Pfaff (Su 15); Ed Callaway, Salk (Su 14)
• Thesis Lab: Terry Sejnowski, Salk
• Current Position: Resident Physician, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Liam King

• Email: lking@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley (2012), B.S. Chemical Biology
• Graduate Department: TSRI
• Research Interests: Immunology/ Infection and Chemistry/ Biochemistry
• Laboratory Rotation: David Pride, Bill Fenical (Su 14); Elizabeth Winzeler (Su 13)
• Thesis Lab: Erica Ollmann Saphire
• Publications (PubMed)

Molly Kwiatkowski

• Email: mkwiatkowski@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Bowdoin College (2011), B.S. Neuroscience
• Graduate Department: Neuroscience
• Research Interests: Neuroscience
• Laboratory Rotation: Mark Tuszynski, Sam Pfaff (Su 15); Nick Spitzer (Su 14)
• Thesis Lab: Jared Young
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University
• Publications (PubMed)

Vitor Martins

• Email: vfmartins@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Florida (2014), B.S. Biochemistry, Math, Bioinformatics
• Graduate Department: BMS
• Research Interests: Cardiovascular, Endocrinology
• Laboratory Rotation: Marc Montminy, Simon Schenk (Su 15); Fred Levine, Sanford Burnham (Su 14)
• Thesis Lab: Simon Schenk
• Current Position: Internship (2022-2023): Internal Medicine, University of Miami Holy Cross Hospital. Residency (2023-2028): Diagnostic Radiology Clinician-Scientist Pathway, UC San Diego
• Publications (PubMed)

Debha Amatya

• Email: damatya@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University (2014), B.S. Bioengineering
• Graduate Department: Neuroscience
• Research Interests: Bioengineering/Neuro-Engineering, Neuroscience
• Laboratory Rotation: Fred Gage, Jonathan Sebat (Su 15); Terry Sejnowski, Salk (Su 14)
• Thesis Lab: Fred Gage
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Psychiatry, UC Los Angeles
• Publications (PubMed)

Joyce Chen

• Email: j2chen@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: UCLA 2008, B.S. Biochemistry
• Graduate Department: BMS
• Research Interests: Cancer biology, epigenetics
• Laboratory Rotation: Clodagh O'Shea (Su 14); Anjana Rao (Su 13); Victor Nizet (Su 12)
• Thesis Lab: Anjana Rao
• Current Position: Resident Physician, Internal Medicine, NYP Hosp-Weill Cornell Med Center
• Publications (PubMed)

Mark Fang

• Email: myfang@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Stanford (2011), B.S. Biology, Mathematical & Computational Sciences
• Graduate Department: BMS
• Research Interests: Cancer biology, genomics, and systems biology
• Laboratory Rotation: Gene Yeo, Chris Glass (Su 13); Bing Ren (Su 12)
• Thesis Lab: Gene Yeo
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Pediatrics, UC San Diego Med Center
• Publications (PubMed)

Anupam Garg

• Email: akgarg@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington (2013), B.S. Bioengineering
• Graduate Department: Neuroscience
• Research Interests: Bioengineering and Neuroscience
• Laboratory Rotation: Brad Voytek, Ed Callaway (Su 14); Tom Albright, Salk (Su 13)
• Thesis Lab: Ed Callaway, Salk
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins
• Publications (PubMed)

Eric Geier

• Email: egeier@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Indiana University (2011), B.S. Astronomy, Physics
• Graduate Department: BMS
• Research Interests: Cancer biology, genomics, and systems biology
• Laboratory Rotation: Kim Prisk, Kevin Patrick (Su 13); Kim Prisk, Rick Buxton (Su 12)
• Thesis Lab: Kim Prisk
• Current Position: Resident Physician in Psychiatry, UC San Diego Med Center
• Publications (PubMed)

Eulanca Liu

• Email: eyl015@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley (2010), B.S. Chemical Biology
• Graduate Department: Neuroscience
• Research Interests: The physiological basis and clinical applications of functional brain imaging
• Laboratory Rotation: Shyni Varghese, Karen Christman (Su 13); Jim Brewer (Su 12)
• Thesis Lab: Rick Buxton
• Current Position: Resident Physician, Radiation Oncology, UC Los Angeles
• Publications (PubMed)

​Stosh Ozog

• Email: sozog@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley (2010), B.A./ B.S. Molecular & Cell Biology, Plant
• Graduate Department: TSRI
• Research Interests: Epidemiology/ Public Health and Immunology/ Infection
• Laboratory Rotation: Bruce Torbett (Su 13), Sumit Chanda & Victor Nizet (Su 14)
• Thesis Lab: Bruce Torbett
• Current Position: Resident Physician, Pediatrics, University of Washington Affil Hospitals

Jason Seidman

• Email: jseidman@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Barbara (2010), B.S./M.A. Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
• Graduate Department: BMS
• Research Interests: Type 2 diabetes, metabolism, and energy homeostasis
• Laboratory Rotation: Chris Glass, Reuben Shaw (Su 13); Marc Montminy, Salk (Su 12)
• Thesis Lab: Chris Glass
• Current Position: Resident Physician, Dermatology, UC San Diego
• Publications (PubMed)

Sahil Shah

• Email: sas032@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: U. of Maryland (2012), B.S. Cell Biology & Genetics
• Graduate Department: Neuroscience
• Research Interests: Type 2 diabetes, metabolism, and energy homeostasis
• Laboratory Rotation: Hollis Cline, TSRI, Ed Callawy, Salk (Su 13); Al La Spada (Su 12)
• Thesis Lab: Jeff Goldberg
• Current Position: Resident Physician, Ophthalmology, Stanford University

Matt Kolar

• Email: mkolar@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: U. of North Carolina (2009), B.S. Chemistry
• Graduate Department: BMS
• Research Interests: Chemical biology
• Laboratory Rotation: Reuben Shaw, Salk, Ben Cravatt, TSRI (Su 13); Jeff Kelly/Luke Wiseman (TSRI, Su 12)
• Thesis Lab: Alan Saghatelian (Salk)
• Current Position: Resident Physician, Dermatology, UC San Diego
• Publications (PubMed)

Spencer Moore

• Email: s2moore@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: UCLA (2012), B.S. Neuroscience
• Graduate Department: BMS
• Research Interests: Systems neuroscience and neural circuits
• Laboratory Rotation: Binhai Zheng, Jeff Goldberg (Su 13); Jeff Isaacson (Su 12)
• Thesis Lab: Alysson Muotri
• Current Position: Resident Physician, Ophthalmology, University of Arizona
• Publications (PubMed)

Angela Ianni

• Email: aianni@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
• Graduate Department: NIH Partners Program (OxCam)
• Research Interests: The effect of dopamine on the neural coding of reward value in healthy individuals and patients with Schizophrenia.
• Laboratory Rotation: Karen Berman, NIH; Tim Behrens , Oxford (Su 12)
• Thesis Lab: Karen Berman, NIH; Tim Behrens, Oxford
• Current Position: Resident Physician, Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
• Publications (PubMed)

Jessica Meves

• Email: jmeves@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Michigan
• Graduate Department: Neurosciences
• Thesis Title: Neuron-intrinsic and extrinsic control of axon sprouting after central nervous system injury
• Thesis Lab: Binhai Zheng
• Current Position: Resident, Psychiatry, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
• Publications (PubMed)

Priya Nayak

• Email: pmnayak@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Caltech (2011), B.S. Physics
• Graduate Departmentt: Bioengineering
• Research Interests: Stem Cells, Bioinformatics
• Laboratory Rotation: Shankar Subramaniam (Su 13); John Serences (Su 12); Veerabhadran Ramanathan (Su 11)
• Thesis Lab: Shankar Subramaniam
• Current Position: Resident, Primary Care, UC San Diego

Nicholas Protopsaltis

• Email: nprotops@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Saint Louis University
• Graduate Department: BMS
• Thesis Title: Role of Interleukin-22 in Promoting Tumor Angiogenesis
• Thesis Lab: Napoleone Ferrara
• Current Position: Resident Physician, Pathology, University of Cincinnati

David Adamowicz

• Email: dadamowi@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Pennsylvania
• Graduate Department: Neurosciences
• Thesis Title: Elucidating the Basis for Memory Impairment in Dementia with Lewy Bodies
• Thesis Lab: Fred Gage
• Current Position: Resident, Psychiatry, UC San Diego
• Publications (PubMed)

Cindy Liu

• Email: yhl016@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Johns Hopkins
• Graduate Department: Neurosciences
• Thesis Title: Ultrastructure of Melanopsin-Expressing Retinal Ganglion Cell Circuitry in the Retina and Brain Regions that Mediate Light-Driven Behavior
• Thesis Lab: Satchin Panda, Salk
• Current Position: Resident, Internal Medicine, Kaiser Permanente

Geoff Weiner

• Email: gweiner@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Lake Forrest College (2008), B.A. Math & Biology
• Graduate Department: Neurosciences
• Thesis Title:
• Thesis Lab: Jeff Goldberg
• Current Position: Resident, Ophthalmology, Stanford
• Publications (PubMed)

Amran Asadi

• Email: aasadi@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Florida (2008), B.S., Mechanical Engineering
• Graduate Department: Bioengineering
• Thesis Title: Spatio-temporal patterns of active pulmonary vascular control
• Thesis Lab: Kim Prisk
• Current Position: Resident, Anesthesiology, Stanford
• Publications (PubMed)

Greg Goldgof

• Email: ggoldgof@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University (2009), B.S. Computer Science and Biological Sciences, M.S. Bioengineering
• Graduate Department: Biomedical Sciences
• Thesis Title: Drug Target Discovery Using Designer Drug Sensitive Yeast
• Thesis Lab: Elizabeth Winzeler
• Current Position: Resident, Pathology, UCSF
• Publications (PubMed)

Aran Groves

• Email: agroves@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Northern Arizona (2008), B.S., Biology
• Graduate Department: Neuroscience
• Thesis Title: Astrocyte activity modulated by sphingosine 1-phosphate signaling in a multiple sclerosis model
• Thesis Lab: Jerold Chun, TSRI
• Current Position: Resident, Pediatric Neurology, UCLA
• Publications (PubMed)

Cynthia Hsu

• Email: c6hsu@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington (2010), B.S. Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
• Graduate Department: Biomedical Sciences
• Thesis Title: Molecular mechanisms of MAP4K3-mediated autophagy induction
• Thesis Lab: Al La Spada
• Current Position: Resident, Internal Medicine, UCSD
• Publications (PubMed)

Michael Kramer

• Email: mkramer@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Harvard University (2009), B.A. Engineering
• Graduate Department: Bioinformatics & Systems Biology
• Thesis Title: Transformation of high-throughput data into hierarchal cellular models enables biological prediction and discovery
• Thesis Lab: Trey Ideker
• Current Position: Resident, Internal Medicine, Barnes-Jewish
• Publications (PubMed)

Espoir Kyubwa

• Email: ekyubwa@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: UCSD (2010), B.S/M.S. Bioengineering
• Graduate Department: Bioengineering
• Thesis Title: Optogenetic Dissection of Cell Types and Circuits in Mouse Visual Cortex
• Thesis Lab: Ed Callaway, Salk
• Current Position:
• Publications (PubMed)

Leo Lin

• Email: l2lin@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University (2003), B.A. Biology
• Graduate Department: Biomedical Sciences
• Thesis Title: Exploring Antibiotic and Innate Immune Synergies to Treat Mutli-Drug Resistant Bacterial Infections
• Thesis Lab: Victor Nizet
• Current Position: Resident, Pathology, University of Utah
• Publications (PubMed)