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The Martin Lab

The Martin lab welcomes students, post-docs, and all researchers regardless of race, religion, gender identification, sexual orientation, age, or disability status.

Pricipal Investigator

Andreas Martin, Ph.D.

Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology

HHMI Investigator

a.martin at berkeley dot edu

NSF CAREER Award (2012)
Searle Scholar (2009)
Postdoctoral Research, Sauer Lab (MIT)
Graduate Research, Schmid Lab
(Universitaet Bayreuth, Germany)

Staff

	Ken Dong, Ph.D. Senior Scientist k77dong at berkeley dot edu Scientist, Plexxikon Postdoc, Hymowitz Lab (Genentech) Graduate Research, Berger Lab (UCB) M.S. Chemistry (UCSD) B.S. Biochemistry/Chemistry (UCSD) B.A. Political Science (UCSD)
	Gang Xie, Ph.D. Research Specialist gang.xie at berkeley dot edu Graduate Research in Chemistry (South Dakota State University) B.S. Chemistry (Nanjing University)
	Christine Gee, Ph.D. Research Specialist Lab Safety Officer christinelgee at berkeley dot edu Postdoctoral Research, Alber Lab (UCB) Postdoctoral Research, Martin Lab (Institute for Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, QLD, Australia) PhD, Biochemistry, de Jersey Lab (University of Queensland, QLD, Australia) B.S. Biochemistry (University of Queenland, QLD, Australia)

Postdocs

	Connor Arkinson, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher connorarkinson at berkeley dot edu Graduate Research, Walden Lab (University of Glasgow) M.Res. Molecular and Cell Biology (University of Birmingham) B.Sc. Biology (University of Worcester)
	Hao-Hsuan Hsieh, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher hao-hsuan_hsieh at berkeley dot edu Graduate Research, Shu-ou Shan Lab (California Institute of Technology) B.S. in Chemistry and Physics (National Taiwan University)
	Zengwei Liao, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher zengwei_liao_mark0 at berkeley dot edu Graduate Research, Shinya Fushinobu Lab (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan) M.S. Masayuki Oda Lab, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences (Kyotorefectural University, Kyoto, Japan) B.S. School of Life Sciences (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)

Graduate Students

Nitin Daniel

Biophysics

nitin_daniel at berkeley dot edu

B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular biology
(university of Georgia)

Diego R. Ramos Ortiz

Biophysics

NSF Graduate Research Fellow

diego.ramos at berkeley dot edu

B.S. Chemistry
(University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez)

Santiago Yori

Chemical Biology/MCB

HHMI Gilliam Fellow

syori at berkeley dot edu

B.S. Biology/Chemistry
(Florida Gulf Coast University)

Visiting Scholar

Jack Stein

Mentor: Ken

jackstein at berkeley dot edu

Major: Biology
(Pomona College)

Undergraduate Researchers

Lucy Liu

Mentor: Ken

lucyzl at berkeley dot edu

Major: Molecular and Cell Biology
(University of California, Berkeley)

Alumni

Andrea Brighi (Visiting Scholar, 2025)
Nicole MacRae (Undergraduate, 2025)
A. Paula Vargas-Ruiz (Graduate Student, 2024)
Erika M. López-Alfonzo (Graduate Student, 2024)
Cameron Williams (Graduate Student, 2023)
Sahar Zarafshan (Undergraduate, 2023)
Miranda Escobar (Undergraduate and Technician, 2023)
Ethan Yu (Undergraduate and Technician, 2023)
B. Rad (Protein Purification Expert, 2022)
Hiro Harimonto (Undergraduate, 2022)
Anya Pesniak (Undergraduate, 2022)
Hisham Alshoybe (Graduate Student, 2022)
Zaw Htet (Postdoc, 2022)
Stephanie Gates (Postdoc, 2022)
Erik Jonsson (Postdoc, 2021)
Chris S. Lim (Postdoc, 2021)
Sam Kwok (Undergraduate, 2020)
Bastian Moellers (Visiting Scholar, 2020)
Dom Castanzo (Graduate Student, 2020)
Eric Greene (Graduate Student, 2020)
Vani Topkar (Undergraduate, 2019)
Ellen Goodall (Graduate Student)
Emily Blythe (Visiting Graduate Student)
Brooke Gardner (Postdoc, 2019)
Nicole Madrazo (Undergraduate, 2018)
Matt Steffely (Graduate Student)
Michal Olszewski, Ph.D. (Graduate Student, 2018)
Jared Bard, Ph.D. (Graduate Student, 2018)
Kaili Carr (Undergraduate, 2018)
Mike Lawson, Ph.D. (Berger/Martin Graduate Student, 2016)
Evan Worden, Ph.D. (Graduate Student, 2016)
Dezhen (Lynn) Kong (Undergraduate, 2016)
Kathy Bach (Undergraduate, 2016)
Kris Nyquist, Ph.D. (Graduate Student, 2015)
Charlene Bashore, Ph.D. (Graduate Student, 2015)
Mary Matyskiela, Ph.D. (Postdoc, 2014)
Robyn Beckwith, Ph.D. (Graduate Student, 2014)
Eric Estrin, Ph.D. (Graduate Student, 2014)
Chris Padovani (Research Associate, 2014)
Minh Lee (Undergraduate, 2014)
Melissa Steele-Ogus (Undergraduate, 2013)
Allan Wetzel (Undergraduate, 2010)

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