People
Professor and Principal Investigator
Daniel A Portnoy
Distinguished Professor
Departments of Molecular & Cell Biology and Plant & Microbial Biology
UC Berkeley
Current Postdocs
Current Graduate Students
Graduate Student Researcher
Molecular & Cell Biology
Current Undergraduates and Others
Administrator
Alumni
Karina Almanza
Former Undergraduate Lab Assistant
Zaza Atanelov
MD, Emergency Medicine, Florida
Vicki Auerbuch Stone
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology, UC Santa Cruz
Anna Bakardjiev
Senior Director of Development, Denali Therapeutics, San Francisco
Varaang Bhandula
PhD candidate, Hang lab, Dept. of Immunology and Microbiology, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA
Mark Borowsky
Chief Information Officer, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), Boston, MA
Westyn Branch-Elliman
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
Investigator, VA Boston Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research
Chen Chen
Research Scientist, High Throughput Biology Group, Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA
Henry Cheng
Cardiologist at Chattanooga Heart Institute
Marissa Chou
Intern, Genentech
Meg Dahlgren
Software Engineer, Butterfly.ai, New York
Amy Decatur
formerly of the University of Pennsylvania
Juliana Durack
Vice-President of Research and Development, Symbiome, San Francisco, CA
Nancy Frietag
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago
Aimee Geissler
Global Health Security Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Leslie Guereca
Current: Graduate Student, Yale; Former Undergraduate Lab Assistant / PREP Scholar
Andrea Haraga
Former SRA
Jonathan Hardy
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University
Haley Hautau
Former Undergraduate Lab Assistant
Anat Herskovits
Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Tel Aviv, Israel
Darren Higgins
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Jason Hong
Former Undergraduate Lab Assistant
Qiongying Veronica Huang
Associate Director, Licensing, Lonza
Sonya John
Internal Medicine Resident, UCSD Medical Center
Sian Jones
Associate Professor, Clinical Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Maria Krasilnikov
Graduate student, Dept. of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University
Pete Lauer
Senior Director, Process Development, PACT Pharma, Albany, C
Jess Leber
Head of Business Development, Small Molecule APIs at Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc., Arlington, MA
Laurel L. Lenz
Professor and Director of Immunology Graduate Program, Department of Immunology & Microbiology, University of Colorado, Denver
Sam Light
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology
University of Chicago
Emily Lockshaw
Former Graduate Student
Anastasia Loukitcheva
Postdoctoral Fellow in Late Stage Clinical Science at Genentech
Helene Marquis
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University
Ramona (Gonzales) McCaffrey
Manager, Clinical Operations at Gossamer Bio, San Diego, CA
Susannah (Susy) McKay
Deputy Director, Office of Scientific Innovation and Integration, Center for Disease Control, Decatur, GA
Jody Melton Witt
Director, Research and Development, Grifols Diagnostic Solutions, Emeryville, CA
Nicole Meyer-Morse
Public Assistance Deputy Director Operations (Compliance); Consolidated Resource Center – West, FEMA, Sacramento, CA
Gabriel Mitchell
Innovation Scholar, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), Emeryville, CA
Sonya Mochegova
Former Graduate Student Researcher
Sina Mohammadi
Research Scientist at Merck Exploratory Science Center, Cambridge
Marlena Moors Westcott
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Brittney Nguyen
Senior Scientist, Talis Biomedical Corporation, Berkeley, CA
Ran Nir-Paz
Associate Professor, Faculty in Infectious Diseases, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem
Mary O'Riordan
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor
Jonathan Portman
Senior Scientist, Vaxess Technologies, Greater Boston, MA
Chris Rae
Associate Director, Internal Programs, Nutcracker Therapeutics, Emeryville, CA CA
Michelle Reniere
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle
Elise Rio
Clinical Consultant, Triage Consulting Group
Lijun Rong
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine Cancer Center, Chicago
Alexis Rovner
Co-Founder and CEO, 64-x, Bay Area
JD Sauer
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Daniel Seyedebrahimi
Graduate Polymers Researcher, Polymer Science and Engineering, UMass at Amherst
Jessica Shugart
Science Writer, Alzheimer’s Research Forum, Chico, CA
Justin Skoble
Vice President, Technical Operations, Caribou Biosciences, Berkeley, CA
Gregory Smith
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Northwestern University School of Medicine
Vincent Tam
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Temple University School of Medicine
Julie Viala
Assistant Professor, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
Kristen Virdone
Former Undergraduate Lab Assistant
Aaron Whiteley
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder
Chelsea Witte-Garcia
Intellectual Property Attorney, Wolf Greenfield, Boston, MA
Joshua Woodward
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle
Jason Zemansky
Vice President, Equity Research, Biotechnology, and Pharmaceuticals, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, New York, NY
Yingying Zhang
Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, China