THE TEAM
Alec Martinez
Lab Manager
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amartinez296 at ucmerced.edu
Feng Yu
Graduate Student
In vitro and in silico solution design
fyu9 at ucmerced.edu
David C. Moses
Graduate Student
Solution Space scans of disordered proteins
dmoses5 at ucmerced.edu
Kara Hunter
Graduate Student
Pooled library screenings of LEA_4 protein expression
khunter6 at ucmerced.edu
Mary McCoy
Undergraduate Student
forthcoming
mmccoy at ucmerced.edu
Sofía Romero
Postdoctoral Fellow
High-throughput in vivo study to uncover the environmentally-dependent sequence-to-function relationship in LEA motifs
promeroperez at ucmerced.edu
Eduardo Flores
Graduate Student
The relationship between transcription activation domains ensemble & function in cells
eflores80 at ucmerced.edu
Karina Guadalupe
Graduate Student
Protein interactions and live-cell microscopy
kguadalupe at ucmerced.edu
Patrick Koenig
Graduate Student
Wildtype Adenovirus and its various interactions with its host cell
(Joint with Grasis Lab)
pkoenig2 at ucmerced.edu
Edith Gollub
Undergraduate Student
forthcoming
egollub at ucmerced.edu
Ryan Lee
Undergraduate Student
forthcoming
rlee98 at ucmerced.edu
LAB ALUMNI
Gagandeep Kaur, Undergraduate student 2022-2023
Nora Margaret Shamoon, Undergraduate student, 2019-2022 - Now Graduate student at UC Merced
Tejveer Bagri, High School student, Summer 2022
Ralph McAnelly, Research Specialist, 2021-2022
Estefania Cuevas-Zepeda, Undergraduate student, 2021-2022
Catherine Nguyen, Undergraduate student, 2021-2022
Jaspal Mann, Undergraduate student, 2021-2022
Daniela Navarrete, Visiting Masters student, Fall 2021
Dianna Liakos, Undergraduate REU student, Summer 2021
Andres Eduardo Bonilla, Undergraduate REU student, Summer 2021
Adam Rhetta, Undergraduate student, 2020-2021
Ashan Lakhani, Undergraduate student, 2019-2020
Navtej Singh, Undergraduate student, 2019-2020
Kiefer Deen Villacrucis, High school student, Summer 2019
Join us!
The lab is always looking for motivated, talented individuals!
Projects in the lab tend to be interdisciplinary, and can involve live-cell microscopy, protein biophysics, and/or programming, depending on your interests. If you like what you see, drop Shahar a line. Please indicate why you're interested in joining.