Lab Members

Andrew Dillin, Ph.D.

Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Research
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

Research Staff

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Sarah Tronnes

Lab Manager

Jenni Durieux

Research Specialist

Anel Esquivel

Laboratory Assistant

Melissa Sanchez

EM and Media Consultant

Liz Willey

Research Associate

Mandy Zeng

Research Associate

Post Doctoral Fellows

Graduate Students

Julian Dishart

Pre-Doctoral Student

Helen Wills Neuroscience

Phil Frankino

UCB Stem Cell

Pre-Doctoral Fellow, MCB

Holly Gildea

NSF & NIH F99 Pre-Doctoral Fellow,

Helen Wills Neuroscience

Ryo Higuchi-Sanabria, Ph.D.

NIH K99 & F32 and AFAR

Research Fellow

Erica Moehle, Ph.D.

Jane Coffin Childs

Research Fellow

Andy Murley, Ph.D.

Damon Runyan Cancer

Research Fellow

Raz Bar-Ziv, Ph.D

EMBO and LLHF

Research Fellow

Ashley Frakes, Ph.D.

NIH F32

Research Fellow

Gilbert Garcia, Ph.D.

Post Doctoral Fellow

Cory Pender, Ph.D.

NIH T32 & F32

Research Fellow

Robert Schinzel, Ph.D.

CIRM and Siebel

Research Fellow

Koning Shen, Ph.D.

Jane Coffin Childs, AFAR

& NIH K99 Research Fellow

Kim Tsui, Ph.D.

NIH F32 Research Fellow

Brant Webster, Ph.D.

LSRF Research Fellow

Hanlin Zhang, Ph.D.

LLHF Research Fellow

Melissa Metcalf

NIH F31

Pre-Doctoral Fellow, MCB

Martina Velichkovska

UCB Graduate Study

Pre-Doctoral Fellow, MCB

Kevin Wickham

UC-HBCU Initiative,

Berkeley Stem Cell Center & NSF

Pre-Doctoral Fellow, MCB

Graduate Rotation Students

Peter Yoon

Graduate Student, MCB

Undergraduate Researchers and Interns

Sentibel Pandovski

MCB, 2023

Arushi Sahay

MCB, 2022

Talha Siddiqi

Intern

Anina Lund

Cognitive Science, 2020

Sophia Moreno

Public Health, 2021

Naomi Nicholas

MCB, 2021