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Dillin Lab - University of California, Berkeley

UC Berkeley Alumni

Visiting Scholars

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Edgar Arriaga, Ph.D.

Professor/Group Leader

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

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Jens Brüning, MD

Professor/Group Leader

Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research

Germany

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Reinhard Fischer, Ph.D.

Professor/Group Leader

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Germany

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Avijit Mallick

Pre-Doctoral Fellow

University of Massachusetts

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Rebekah Zahedi, DVM

Executive Vice President

My Pets Wellness

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Anu Wartiovaara, Ph.D.

Professor/Group Leader

University of Helsinki

Finland

Staff

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Dale Armomdee

Science Tutor

Albany, CA

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Camila Benitez

Graduate Student

San Francisco, CA

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Jon Halloran

Software Engineer III

San Francisco, CA

Suzy Wolff

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Naame Kelet

Research Associate

Arcadia Science

Oakland, CA

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Cesar Mena

Graduate Student

Stanford University

Palo Alto, CA

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Samira Monshietehadi

Graduate Student

Feller Lab, UC Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

Edward Sukarto

Research Technician

Oakland, CA

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Sarah Tronnes

Associate Scientist

Richmond, CA

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Liza Willey

Research Associate

Maze Therapeutics

South San Francisco, CA

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Alex Mulligan

Graduate Student

Vanderbilt University

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Melissa Sanchez

Facility and Procurement Manager

San Francisco, CA

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Arushi Sahay

Graduate Student

Wan Lab, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

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Suzy Wolff

Assistant Director

UC San Diego Office of Contract & Grant Administration

San Diego, CA

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Mandy Zeng

Clinical Trial Coordinator

Stanford University

Palo Alto, CA

Alumni: Faculty

Post Doctoral Fellows

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Nate Baird, Ph.D.

Chief Product Officer

San Diego CA

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Raz Bar-Ziv, Ph.D.

Head of Cells & Media Development

Jerusalem, Israel

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Joe Daniele, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist/Group Leader

MD Anderson Research Center

Houston, TX

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Pete Douglas, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

University of Texas Southwestern

Dallas, TX

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Ashley Frakes, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

National Institute of Health

Bethesda, MD

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Ryo Higuchi-Sanabria, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Sabine Jordan, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist

Neurocrine Biosciences
San Diego, CA

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Hyun-Eui Kim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

McGovern Medical School
University of Texas, Houston, TX

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Carsten Merkwirth, Ph.D.

Senior Director

HAYA Therapeutics

San Diego CA

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Erica Moehle, Ph.D.

Project Manager

Innovative Genomics Institute

Berkeley, CA

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Vidhya Ramachandran, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

South San Francisco, CA

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Celine Riera, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Cedars-Sinai/UCLA

Los Angeles, CA

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Robert Schinzel, Ph.D.

Research Specialist

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Ophir Shalem, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

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Kristan Steffen, Ph.D.

Director, Research

San Francisco, CA

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Rebecca Taylor, Ph.D.

Lecturer

School of Biological Sciences

University of East Anglia, UK

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Ye Tian, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China

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David Vilchez, Ph.D.

Professor
University of Cologne

Germany

Brant Webster, Ph.D.

Scientist II

Maze Therapeutics

South San Francisco, CA

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Nan Xin, Ph.D.

Study Coordinator

MD Anderson Research Center Houston, TX

Graduate Students

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Kristen Berendzen, Ph.D., M.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Psychiatry, UCSF
San Francisco, CA

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Julian Dishart, Ph.D.

Patent Agent

San Francisco, CA

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Phil Frankino, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist, Regulatory and Strategy

Loyal/Cellular Longevity

San Francisco, CA

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Gilbert Garcia, Ph.D.

Post Doctoral Fellow

Higuchi-Sanabria Lab, USC

Los Angeles, CA

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Holly Gildea, Ph.D.

Post Doctoral Fellow

Liddlelow Lab, NYU

New York, NY

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Hope Henderson, Ph.D.

Communications Strategist

Innovative Genomics Institute Berkeley, CA

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Aimee Littleton, M.A.

Product Manager II

Seattle, WA

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Melissa Metcalf, Ph.D.

Associate

Headland Strategy Group

San Francisco, CA

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Milos Simic, Ph.D.

Post Doctoral Fellow

San Francisco, CA

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Martina Velichkovska, M.A.

Sales Manager

San Francisco, CA

Students

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Alex Ahilon-Jeronimo

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Qazi Ahmad

Emily Beckman

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Theo Bolas

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Janiya Brookes

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Lily Burton

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Jessica Chen

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Shannon Cheung

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Hannah Chi

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Daniel Choi

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Helen Choi

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Giana Cirolia

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Sofia Dallarda

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Mattias de los
Rios Rogers

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Hemaxi Desai

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Van Dinh

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Emma Doan

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Daniella Dror

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Wudi Fan

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Amelia Farinas

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Yesenia Garcia

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Stefan Homentchovschi

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Jessica Hurst

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Tayla Hunter

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Naznin Jahan

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Gemma Lira

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Anina Lund

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Megan Ly

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Janessa Mendoza Chavez

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Sophia Moreno

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Nazineen Kandahari

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Blake Kirkland

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Etai Koronyo

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Constance Lau

Sophie Liu

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Meaghan McConlogue

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Kiran Nagra

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Naomi Nicholas

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Sentibel Pandovski

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Arianna Pankey

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Emily Page

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Joel Perez

Ann Popovici

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Rachel Prorok

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Raymundo Sanchez

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Nupur Savalia

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Elyes Serghine'

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Mitchell Srimongkoi

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Cathy Ton

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Vi Tran

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Sara Vandenburg

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Annie Vu

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Mathew Weng

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Jacqueline Woo

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Iris Wu

Haolun Wu

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Wayne Yang

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Eric Zhang

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Anastasiia Zhelokhovteva

Undergraduate Alumni
Where Are They Now?

Salk Institute

Hugo Aguilaniu, Ph.D.

President, Instituto Serrapilheira

Rio de Janieiro, Brazil

Denise Carroll, M.A.

Sales Specialist

ProteinSimple Division of Bio-Techne, San Jose, CA

Ehud Cohen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Adrian Contreras, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist

GluBio Therapeutics, San Diego, CA

Elke Deurling, Ph.D.

Professor

University of Konstanz, Germany

Meng Qiu Dong, Ph.D.

Associate Investigator

National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China

Patti Follett, Pharm.D.

Staff Pharmacist

CVS Pharmacy, San Diego, CA

Lindy Gewen, Ph.D.

Laboratory Manager

Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR

Thomas Heimbucher, Ph.D.

Group Leader

Baumeister Lab, University of Frieburg, Germany

Derek Joyce, Ph.D.

Scientific Affairs Manager

Hologic, San Diego, CA

Erik Kapernick

Instructor

Los Angeles College of Music, Los Angeles, CA

Zheng Liu

Research Associate

Salk Institute, San Diego, CA

Gustavo A. R. Maciel, M.D., Ph.D.

Chief Physician

Originare Medicina Reproductiva, Brazil

Carlos Daniel de Magalhaes Filho, Ph.D.

Co-Founder

Valora Therapeudics, San Diego, CA

Will Mair, Ph.D.

Professor

Harvard University School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA

James Moresco, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, The Center for the Genetics of Host Defense

UT Southwestern, TX

Nessa Morrante

Head of Therapeutics Research and Development

Prolific Machines Inc., Emeryville, CA

Virginia Murillo

Technical Sales Representative

Evident Scientific, San Diego, CA

Ian Nicastro, Ph.D.

Research and Lab Manager

Pasquinelli Lab, University of California, San Diego

Johan Paulsson, Ph.D.

Associate Director

Novo Nordisk A.S., Denmark

Siler Panowski, Ph.D.

VP of Biology, Solid Tumors

Stealth Biotech, San Francisco, CA

Deepti Wilkinson, Ph.D.

Associate Director

Boundless Bio, San Diego, CA

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