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Kampmann lab, June 2025

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Principal Investigator

Martin Kampmann, PhD - he/him/his

Lab manager

Jaime Leong

Faculty assistant

Nicole Taylor

Indigo Rose - he/him/his

Kunal Shroff - he/him/his

Vasileios Papakis

Rudra Bose - he/him/his

Reet Mishra

Jialing Fang - she/her/hers

Sarah Ancheta - she/her/hers

Postbac Scholars (Staff Research Associates/ Junior Specialists)

Sarah Hoyle

Tyler Smith

Molly O'Brien - she, her, hers

Andrea Keys - she/her/hers

Lin Yadanar

Lab Assistant

Layla Gomes - she, her, hers

Interns

Abi Wee - she/they

Kelly Yu

Bianca Gonzalez

Krishna Ajjarapu

Dean Ramos

Ty Soria

Derek Vu

Rotation Students

Summer Students

Alumni

(Dear Alumni, please stay in touch - let us know when you move on to your next position.)

Graduate students

Stephanie See
Chemistry & Chemical Biology PhD student 2015-2021
Position after Kampmann lab: Postdoctoral Fellow, Rape Lab, UC Berkeley
Current: insitro
Ruilin Tian
Biophysics PhD student 2016-2020
Position after Kampmann lab: Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen
Tian Lab website: https://sustech.tianlab.top/
Kun Leng
MSTP & BMS PhD student 2017-2021
Position after Kampmann lab: Medical student, UCSF
Emmy Li
BMS PhD student 2017-2023
Position after Kampmann lab: Postdoctoral Fellow, Qi Lab, Stanford University
Greg Mohl
Tetrad PhD student 2019-2023
Position after Kampmann lab: Postdoctoral Fellow, Clelland Lab, UCSF
Gokul Ramadoss
BMS PhD student 2019-2024 (primary lab: Bruce Conklin, joint with Kampmann lab)
Position after graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Conklin lab, UCSF/Gladstone
Noam Teyssier
Bioinformatics PhD student 2021-2024 (co-mentor Hani Goodarzi)
Position after graduation: Scientist, Arc Institute
Olivia Teter
Bioengineering PhD student 2020-2025
Position after graduation: Scientist, Calico
Parker Grosjean
Bioinformatics PhD student 2021-2024 (co-mentors Michael Keiser, Adam Yala)
Position after graduation: Lead machine learning scientist, Insitro

Postdocs

Poornima Ramkumar, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2019
Position after Kampmann lab: Senti Biosciences
Current: Arcellx
Xiaoyan Guo, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2022
Position after Kampmann lab: Assistant Professor, UConn Health
Guo Lab website: https://xiaoyanguolab.org/
John Chen, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2019
Position after Kampmann lab: Denali Therapeutics
Current: Altos Labs
Nina Dräger, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2022
Position after Kampmann lab: Senior Scientist, Modulo Bio
Avi Samelson, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2024
Position after Kampmann lab: Assistant Professor, UCLA
Samelson Lab website: https://samelsonlab.org/
Steven Boggess, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2024
Position after Kampmann lab: Senior Scientist, Arc Institute
Biswa Ramani, MD PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2025
Position after Kampmann lab: Assistant Professor, UCSF
Ramani Lab website: https://ramanilab.ucsf.edu/

Research Associates and Lab Assistants

Diane Nathaniel (Staff Research Associate II, 2014-2018. Current: Gilead)
Connor Ludwig (Staff Research Associate II, 2016-2017. Current: Bioengineering PhD student, Stanford University)
Meghan Seyler (Staff Research Associate I, 2017-2018. Current: Master's student, Duke University)
Gita Rohanitazangi (Staff Research Associate I, 2018-2019. Current: Dental Student, Roseman University)
Jason Hong (Staff Research Associate II, 2017-2019. Current: Pharmacy student, Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, University of the Pacific)
Anthony "AJ" Abarientos (Staff Research Associate II, 2019-2021. Current: Denali Therapeutics)
Brendan Rooney (Staff Research Associate II, 2019-2021. Current: PhD student, Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School)
Sydney Sattler (Staff Research Associate II, 2019-2021. Current: PhD student, Genome Sciences program, Washington University)
Merissa Chen (Staff Research Associate II, 2018-2021. Current: Masters student, Genetic Counseling program, UCSF)
Lydia Lee (Lab Assistant, 2019-2022. Current: Pharmacy student, Texas Southern University)
Giovanni Aviles (Staff Research Associate II, 2018-2022. Current: Biophysics PhD student, UCSF)
Nabeela Ariqat (PROPEL postbac scholar and Staff Research Associate II, 2021-2023. Current: MSTP student, UCSF)
Andrew Pan (Staff Research Associate II, 2020-2023. Current: BMS student, UCSF)
Vincent Cele Castillo (PROPEL postbac scholar and Staff Research Associate II, 2022-2024. Current: MSTP student, UCSF)
Julianne Jin (Lab Assistant, 2022-2024. Current: Medical student, Liberty University)
Vaidehi Gandhi (Staff Research Associate II, 2021-2024. Current: PhD student, UC Irvine)
Spencer Danner Bocks (NIH Prep scholar, 2023-2024. Current: Neuroscience PhD student, UCSF)
Emily Marzette (Staff Research Associate II, 2022-2025. Current: Neuroscience PhD student, UCLA)
Venus Hagan (Staff Research Associate II, 2023-2025. Current: BMS PhD student, UCSF)
Cristian Chavira (NIH Prep scholar, 2024-2025. Current: Biophysics PhD student, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Weiwei Liang (Staff Research Associate I, 2024-2025)
Sarah Soliman (Associate Specialist. Current: DSCB PhD student, UCSF)

Rotation Students

Isabel Johnson (Tetrad rotation student, Fall 2015. Current: PhD student, Frost lab)
Matthew Laurie (Tetrad rotation student, Fall 2015. Current: PhD student, DeRisi lab)
Kathleen Keough (PSPG rotation student, Winter 2016. Current: PhD student, Conklin and Pollard labs)
Alexander Wolff (Biophysics rotation student, Spring 2016. Current: PhD student, Fraser lab)
Tamas Nagy (Bioinformatics rotation student, Spring 2016. Current: PhD student, Weiner lab)
Carlos Nowotny (Tetrad rotation student, Fall 2016. Current: PhD student, Agard lab)
Dan Schwarz (CCB rotation student, Winter 2017. Current: PhD student, Gestwicki lab)
Nia Teerikorpi (Tetrad rotation student, Winter 2017. Current: PhD student, Willsey lab)
Taia Wu (CCB rotation student, Spring 2017. Current: PhD student, Gestwicki lab)
Adam Longhurst (Tetrad rotation student, Spring 2017. Current: PhD student, Toczyski lab)
Katerina Popova (BMS rotation student, Spring 2017. Current: PhD student, Weissman lab)
Elise Munoz (Tetrad rotation student, Fall 2017. Current: PhD student, Narlikar lab)
Janine Sengstack (Tetrad rotation student, Winter 2018. Current: PhD student, Li lab)
Ben Herken (Tetrad rotation student, Winter 2018. Current: PhD student, Gilbert lab)
Beatriz Alvarado (DSCB rotation student, Winter 2018. Current: PhD student, Pollen & Schwer labs)
Capria Rinaldi (PSPG rotation student, Winter 2018. Current: PhD student, Altschuler/Wu lab)
Maxine Nelson (BMS rotation student, Spring 2018. Current: PhD student, Huang lab)
Austin Wang (Neuroscience rotation student, Spring 2018. Current: PhD student, Kao lab)
Tom Moss (Tetrad rotation student, Winter 2019. Current: PhD student, Mukherjee lab)
Erin Akins (Bioengineering rotation student, Spring 2019. Current: PhD student, Kumar lab)
Karinna Vivanco (Bioengineering rotation student, Spring 2019. Current: PhD student, Lareau lab)
Garrett Wong (Bioinformatics rotation student, Spring 2019. Current: PhD student, Gilbert lab)
Marcell Zimanyi (CCB rotation student, Fall 2019. Current: PhD student, Cheng lab)
Yaqiao Li (PSPG rotation student, Fall 2019. Current: PhD student, Sirota lab)
Gabby Rabadam (Bioengineering rotation student, Spring 2020. Current: PhD student, Gartner lab)
Jessica Mella (Tetrad rotation student, Spring 2020. Current: PhD student, Buchwalter lab)
Nick Page (Neuroscience rotation student, Fall 2020. Current: PhD student, Sanders & Ahituv labs)
Jennifer Langen (Neuroscience rotation student, Fall 2020. Current: PhD student, Canzio lab)
Gabriel Sturm (Bioengineering rotation student, Fall 2020. Current: PhD student, Marshall lab)
Timmy Suh (Biomedical Sciences rotation student, Winter 2021 Current: PhD student, Goodarzi lab)
Alexis Villani (Tetrad rotation student, Winter 2021. Current: PhD student, Bondy-Denomy lab))
Lauren Kim (Bioengineering rotation student, Spring 2021)
Camila Benitez (Tetrad rotation student, Spring 2021 Current: PhD student, Kao lab)
Addie Cady (Tetrad rotation student, Spring 2021. Current: PhD student, Raleigh lab)
Zach Cogan (Tetrad rotation student, Spring 2021. Current: PhD student, Walter lab)
Saeed Fathi (MSTP rotation student, Summer 2021. Current: PhD student, Nakamura lab)
Sarah Wade (Neuroscience rotation student, Fall 2021. Current: PhD student, Molofsky lab)
Emily Delaney (Tetrad rotation student, Spring 2022. Current: PhD student, Morgan lab)
Stephanie Huard (BMS rotation student, Spring 2022. Current: PhD student, Condello lab)
Emily Graham (MSTP rotation student, Summer 2022. Current: PhD student, Condello lab)
Nandini Periyapalayam Sekar (Bioengineering rotation student, Fall 2022. Current: PhD student, Chang lab)
Carlota Pereda Serras (PSPG rotation student, Fall 2022. Current: PhD student, Sirota lab)
Saheli Singh (Neuroscience rotation student, Summer 2023. Current: PhD student, Condello lab)
Malia Brooks (Bioengineering rotation student, Fall 2023.)
Janie Oberhauser (Neuroscience rotation student, Winter 2024. Current: PhD student, Yang lab)
Àlex Tudoras Miravet (Neuroscience rotation student, Winter 2024. Current: PhD student, Seeley lab)
Cristina Dabaco (Tetrad rotation student, Winter 2025)
Allison Melendez (Bioengineering rotation student, Spring 2025)
Katie Brown (Neuroscience rotation student, Fall 2025)
Shon Alimukhamedov (Neuroscience rotation student, Fall 2025)
Ethan Cordes (Tetrad rotation student, Fall 2025)
Juliane Bombosch (Bioengineering rotation student, Winter 2026)

Summer students / Visiting students / Interns

Vincent Rousseau (Visiting Student from École Polytechnique, Paris, Spring/Summer 2016. Current: Rythm, Paris)
Logan Hille (Summer Student, UCSF Summer Research Training Program 2016, from Indiana University. Current: PhD student, Harvard Medical School)
Max Biebl (Visiting student from the Buchner lab, Technical University Munich, Summer 2017)
Molly Bassette (Summer student, UCSF Summer Research Training Program 2017, from Kansas State University. Current: PhD student, UCSF)
Stratton Georgoulis (Summer student, UCSF Summer Research Training Program 2018, from UT Austin. Current: PhD student, UC Davis)
Celeste Parra Bravo (Summer student, UCSF Summer Research Training Program 2019, from UC Santa Barbara. Current: PhD student, Weill Cornell Medical School)
Miguel Hernandez Rovira (Summer student, UCSF Summer Research Training Program 2019, from University of Puerto Rico)
Darrin Goodness (CIRM program Intern, 2019-2020. Current: Synthego)
Venus Hagan (Summer student, UCSF Summer Research Training Program 2022, from UCLA)
Safaa Mouline (Summer student, from UC Berkeley)
Joanna Chou (CIRM program Intern, 2022-2023. Current: Genentech)
Michelle Chang (Summer student, Emerson Collective First Gen program, from Dominican University)
Na'im Pierce (Summer student, Emerson Collective First Gen program, from UC Berkeley)
Andrew Li (Undergraduate research intern, 2023-2024, from UC Berkeley)
Thomas Ta (CIRM program Intern, 2023-2024. Current: Research Specialist, UCSF)
Jannis Bücking (Visiting student, 2023, from Heidelberg University)
Carter Brand (Summer student, UCSF Summer Research Training Program 2024, from Lafayette College)
Hillary Hernandez (Summer student, UCSF Summer Research Training Program 2024, from UCLA)
Dongsheng Han (Visiting student, 2024-2024, from Vanderbilt University)
Tanya Sanghal (Undergraduate research intern, 2023-2025, from UC Berkeley)
Krishna Ajjarapu (Summer student, UCSF Summer Research Training Program 2025, from UC Berkeley)
Dean Ramos (Summer student, UCSF Summer Research Training Program and UC Leads Scholar 2025, from UC Davis)