THE TEAM
Eduardo Flores
Graduate Student
Protein phase separation in vitro and in cell
eflores80 at ucmerced.edu
Feng Yu
Graduate Student
In vitro and in silico solution design
fyu9 at ucmerced.edu
Karina Guadalupe
Graduate Student
Protein interactions and live-cell microscopy
kguadalupe at ucmerced.edu
Patrick Koeing
Graduate Student
Wildtype Adenovirus and its various interactions with its host cell
(Joint with Grasis Lab)
pkoenig2 at ucmerced.edu
Nora M. Shamoon
Undergraduate Student
Live-cell microscopy and outreach enthusiast
nshamoon 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
David C. Moses
Graduate Student
Solution Space scans of disordered proteins
dmoses5 at ucmerced.edu
Ralph McAnelly
Research Specialist
Structural biology, molecular cloning and protein purification
(Joint with Thompson Lab)
rmcanelly at ucmerced.edu
Estefania Cuevas-Zepeda
Undergraduate Student
Liquid-liquid phase separation
ALUMNI
Catherine Nguyen, Undergraduate, 2021-2022, now at dental school
Jaspal Mann, Undergraduate, 2021-2022
Daniela Navarrete, Visiting Masters student, Fall 2021
Dianna Liakos, Undergraduate REU, Summer 2021
Andres Eduardo Bonilla, Undergraduate REU, Summer 2021
Adam Rhetta, Undergraduate, 2020-2021
Ashan Lakhani, Undergraduate, 2019-2020
Navtej Singh, Undergraduate, 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.