THE TEAM
Shahar Sukenik
Principal Investigator
Kara Hunter
Graduate Student
Pooled library screenings of LEA_4 protein expression
Sofía Romero
Postdoctoral Fellow
High-throughput in vivo study to uncover the environmentally-dependent sequence-to-function relationship in LEA motifs
Eduardo Flores
Graduate Student
The relationship between transcription activation domains ensemble & function in cells
Karina Guadalupe
Graduate Student
Protein interactions and live-cell microscopy
Patrick Koenig
Graduate Student
Wildtype Adenovirus and its various interactions with its host cell
(Joint with Grasis Lab)
Katherina Martinez
Rotational Graduate Student
In vitro studies and cell-free expression of disordered proteins
Edith Gollub
Undergraduate Student
Structure-to-function relationship in desiccation-related disordered proteins under varying environmental conditions
LAB ALUMNI
Ryan Lee, Undergraduate student 2022-2023
Jada Marshall, REU student, Summer 2023
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.