2015-2019

​​​​​​​2019​​

David Adam​owicz​​​

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium 

              • 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​​

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium 

              • ​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

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium 

              • ​​​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

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium

              • 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​

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium 

              • 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


​Aran Groves​

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium 

              • 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
              • Publications


Cynthia Hsu

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
              • 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​​

Michael Kramer

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium 

              • 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

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium 

              • 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

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
              • ​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 Multi-Drug Resistant Bacterial Infections
              • Thesis Lab: Victor Nizet
              • Current Position: Resident, Pathology, University of Utah
              • Publications


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

  • ​Email: psharifn@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley (2008) B.A., Molecular and Cellular Biology; Biochemistry
  • Graduate Department: Neurosciences
  • Thesis Title: Regulatory elements of cebp-1 mRNA
  • Thesis Lab: Yishi Jin
  • Current Position: Resident, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF
  • Publications​​​

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
  • Publications​

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
  • Publications

Aaron Simon

  • Email: aasimon@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: Brown University (2007), B.S. Biophysics
  • Graduate Department: Bioengineering
  • Thesis Title: Beyond BOLD: Toward the application of quantitative functional magnetic resonance imaging to the study of brain function and physiology
  • Thesis Lab: Richard Buxton
  • Current Position: Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, UCSD
  • Publications

Robert Thomas

  • ​Email: rlthomas@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: Santa Clara University (2006), B.S. Chemistry
  • Graduate Department: Biomedical Sciences
  • Thesis Title: MCL-1 is Essential for Myocardial Homeostatis and Autophagy
  • Thesis Lab: Asa Gustafsson
  • Current Position: Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, UCSD
  • Publications​

C​esar Virgen​

  • Email: cvirgenl@ucsd.edu​
  • Undergraduate Institution: University of Alberta (2006), B.S., Biology
  • Graduate Department: TSRI
  • ​​Thesis Title: Interleukin-1 Receptor 1 Activation Inhibits Hepatitis C Virus Infection
  • Thesis Lab: Frank Chisari, TSRI
  • Current Position: Resident, Department of Dermatology, UC Irvine
  • Publications
Dawn Eichenfield
  • Email: daz001@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2008), B.S. Biology
  • Graduate Department: Biomedical Sciences
  • Thesis Title: Towards and Understanding of Inflammation in Macrophages
  • Thesis Lab: Chris Glass
  • Current Position: Resident, Department of Dermatology, UCSD
  • Publications​


2015

Kristen Berendzen

  • ​Undergraduate Institution: Vanderbilt University (2004), B.S. Neuroscience
  • Graduate Department: Neuroscience
  • Thesis Title: Systemic regulation of the cellular stress response to proteotoxicity by neuroendocrine signaling
  • Thesis Lab: Andrew Dillin
  • Current Position: Resident, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF
  • Publications

​Leela Davies

  • Undergraduate Institution: Brown University (2005), B.S. Neuroscience
  • Graduate Department: Biomedical Sciences
  • Thesis Title: Roles of Sialic Acid Diversity in Mammalian Brain Evolution
  • Thesis Lab: Ajit Varki
  • Current Position: Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
  • Publications

Mithun Diwakar

  • Undergraduate Institution: California Institute of Technology (2006), B.S. Biology
  • Graduate Department: Bioengineering
  • Thesis Title: Multi-Core Beamformer for Spatio-Temporal MEG Source Activity Reconstruction
  • Thesis Lab: Mingxiong Huang
  • Current Position: Resident, Department of Radiology, UCSF
  • Publications​​​

​Jesse Dixon

  • Undergraduate Institution: Princeton University (2006), B.A. Neuroscience
  • Graduate Department: Biomedical Sciences
  • Thesis Title: Higher Order Chromatin Architecture in Mammalian Genome
  • Thesis Lab: Bing Ren
  • Current Position: Helmsley-Salk Fellow, Salk Institute
  • Publications​​

Wes Gifford

  • ​Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Los Angeles (2005), B.S. Neuroscience
  • Graduate Department: Neuroscience
  • Thesis Title: Endogenous Retroviruses Contribute Regulatory Sequences for Early Embryonic Gene Activation
  • Thesis Lab: Sam Pfaff, Salk Institute
  • Current Position: Resident, Department of Pediatrics, U. of Washington
  • Publications

Matt Gonzales

  • Undergraduate Institution: UCSD (2006), B.S. Chemical Engineering
  • Graduate Department: Bioengineering
  • Thesis Title: Rotor Termination in a Patient-Specific Model of Atrial Fibrillation
  • Thesis Lab: Andrew McCulloch
  • Current Position: Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, UCLA
  • Publications​​​

Val Griffeth

  • Undergraduate Institution: Vassar College (2004), B.A. Biochemistry and Mathematics
  • Graduate Department: Bioengineering
  • Thesis Title: The Physiology Basis of BOLD Functional MRI
  • Thesis Lab: Richard Buxton
  • Current Position: Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health & Science U., Portland
  • ​Publications

Adan Majid

  • Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University (2007), B.S. Symbolic Systems
  • Graduate Department: Neuroscience
  • Thesis Title: Selective inhibitory control and the basal ganglia
  • Thesis Lab: Adam Aron
  • Current Position: Resident, Department of Psychiatry (Research Track), UCLA
  • Publications​​​

Liz Murphy

  • Undergraduate Institution: University of California, San Diego (2007), B.A. Mathematics
  • Graduate Department: Neurosciences
  • Thesis Title: Quantitative neuroimaging: applications to normal aging and neurodegenerative disease
  • Thesis Lab: James Brewer
  • Current Position: Resident, Department of Neurology, UCSD
  • Publications

​Tim Tirrell

  • Undergraduate Institution: California Institute of Technology (2006), B.S. Chemistry
  • Graduate Department: Biomedical Sciences
  • Thesis Title: Biomechanical Studies of the Human Musculoskeletal System
  • Thesis Lab: Richard Lieber
  • Current Position: Resident, Department of Surgery, UCSD
  • Publications