People

Kampmann lab, July 2024

More pictures (Lab fun)

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Principal Investigator

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Adjunct Faculty

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Biswa Ramani, MD, PhD - he/him/his

Gary Dixon - he/him/his

Amanda McQuade, PhD - she/her

Mor Alkaslasi

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Graduate Students

• Reet Mishra
• Dongsheng Han

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Lab manager

Jaime Leong

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Postbac Scholars (Staff Research Associates/ Junior Specialists)

• Cristian Chavira
• Tyler Smith

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Lab Assistants

 

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Interns

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Rotation Students

• Sarah Ancheta (BMI rotation student, fall 2024)
• Jialing Fang (Bioengineering rotation student, winter 2025)
• Cristina Dabaco (Tetrad rotation student, winter 2025)
• Allison Melendez (Bioengineering rotation student, spring 2025)

 

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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

 

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)

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)

 

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)
• 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)