2015-2019

​​​​​​​2019​​

David Adam​owicz​​​

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

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, Opthalmology, Stanford
• Publications

2018

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​
  

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
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​Aran Groves​

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

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​
  

Leo Lin

2017

Neal Amin

• ​Email: neamin@ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: Columbia University (2008), B.S. Biochemistry
  
• Graduate Department: BMS
• Thesis Title: The motor neuron-microRNA (miR-218) regulates a gene network required for nerve-muscles interaction
  
• Thesis Lab: Sam Pfaff, Salk
  
• Current Position: Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford
  
• Publications
  

Sagar Bapat

• Email: sbapat@ucsd.edu​
  
• Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University (2009), B.S., Chemistry
• Graduate Department: BMS
• Thesis Title: Immunology of Aging and Metabolic Disease
  
• Thesis Lab: Ye Zheng and Ron Evans, Salk
  
• Current Position: Resident, Department of Pathology, UCSF
  
• Publications
  

Dekker Deacon

• Email: ​ddeacon@ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: Middlebury College (2007), B.A., Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
  
• Graduate Department: BMS
• Thesis Title: The Multigenic Basis for Human Cardiovascular Disease
  
• Thesis Lab: Neil Chi
• Current Position: Resident, Department of Dermatology, U. of Utah
  
• Publications
  

Rahul Nene

• Email: rnene@ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: Brown University (2009), Sc.B., Biology
  
• Graduate Department: BMS
  
• Thesis Title: Identification and Characterization of the Cdc73 Transcription Factor as a Suppressor of Genome Instability
  
• Thesis Lab: Richard Kolodner
  
• Current Position: Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, UCSD
  
• Publications
  

​​Danielle Steed

• Email: dbarrios@ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: California - Los Angeles (2008), B.S., Biology
  
• Graduate Department: TSRI
  
• Research Interests: Natural Products Biosynthesis and Total Synthesis, Enzymology
  
• Laboratory Rotations: K.C. Nicolaou, TSRI (Su 10); Bill Gerwick (Su 10); FloyD Romesberg, K.C. Nicolaou, TSRI (Su 11)
  
• Thesis Lab: Floyd Romesberg, TSRI
  
• Current Position: Resident Deparment of Internal Medicine, Emory
  
• Publications​
  

Tyler Steed

• ​Email: tsteed@ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley (2009), B.A., Molecular and Cell Biology, Neurobiology
• Graduate Department: Neurosciences
• Thesis Title: Quantitative Radiographic Measures in Glioblastoma Imaging Associate with Patient Survival and Tumor Subtype, While Uncovering Genomic Profiles
• Thesis Title: Clark Chen
• Current Position: Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Emory
• Publications​
  

Jean Wassenaar

• ​Email: jew027@ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: Johns Hopkins University (2008), B.S.E., Biomedical Engineering
  
• Graduate Department: Bioengineering
• Research Interests: Biomaterials for Cell/Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery
  
• Laboratory Rotations: Karen Christman (Su 10); Inder Verma, Salk (Su 10)
  
• Thesis Lab: Karen Christman
  
• Current Position: Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt
  
• Publications
  

Csilla Lippert

• ​Email: cfelsen@ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: California Institute of Technology (2008), B.S., Biology and English
  
• Graduate Department: BMS
  
• Research Interests: Cancer Biology, Imaging Technology
  
• Laboratory Rotations: Judy Varner (Su 09); Stuart Lipton, Sanford-Burnham (Su 09); Roger Tsien (Su 10)
  
• Thesis Lab: Roger Tsien
  
• Current Position: Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford
  
• Publications
  

Robert Saddawi-Konefka

• ​Email: rsaddawi@ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Southern California (2008), B.A., Neuroscience and Spanish
• Graduate Department: Neurosciences
• Thesis Title: IL-17D Directed Immune Surveillance
• Thesis Lab: Jack Bui
• Current Position: Resident of Otorhinolaryngology, UCSD
• Publications
  

Panid Sharifnia

2016

​Alex Hui​​​

• ​Email: alhui@ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: Johns Hopkins University (2007), B.S. Biomedical Engineering
• Graduate Department: Bioengineering
• Thesis Title: Regulation of Articular Cartilage Proteoglycan-4 Secretion in Aging and Osteoarthritis
• Thesis Lab: Robert Sah
• Current Position: Resident, Orthopedic Surgery, Mt. Sinai
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Kenston Lam

• Email: k8lam@ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley (2005), B.A. Molecular and Cell Biology
• Graduate Department: Biomedical Sciences
• Thesis Title: Characterization of RUNX1 function in hematopoiesis
• Thesis Lab: Dong-Er Zhang
• Current Position: Resident, Internal Medicine (Investigator Pathway), UCSD
• Publications​​

​Bruno Maranhao

• ​Email: bmaranha@ucsd.edu
  
• Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Los Angeles (2007), B.S. Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience
  
• Graduate Department: Bioengineering
  
• Thesis Title: Efficient Identification of Disease Causative Mutations with Next Generation Sequencing Technologies
  
• Thesis Lab: Gabe Silva, Terry Sejnowski, Salk
  
• Current Position: Resident, Department of Anesthesiology, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis
  
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Aaron Simon