Spring 2025 | Class Notes

Class Notes

• Robyn Beckwith (PhD 2014) is a senior principal technical development scientist working on analytical development and quality control at Genentech/Roche.
 
• Lillie Bui (BA 2022) is a research associate in the Nakamura Lab at the Gladstone Institutes and is currently researching metabolism and neurodegenerative diseases.
• Carolyn Elya (PhD 2017) is an assistant professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at Harvard University.
 
• Vimathi Gummalla (BA 2022) is an MD/PhD student at the University of Washington.
 Cynthia Hermosillo (BA 2019) is a PhD student in a biochemistry lab at UC Berkeley who is working on the regulation of T-cell translation. • Bryan Hsu (BA 2024) is a quantitative biology PhD student in the Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology Program at Harvard. 
 
• Lee Dawson Lam (BA 2023) is a medical student interested in family medicine, policy, and harm reduction at UC Davis Health.
 
 Alexander Lee (BA 2022) is a medical student at McGovern Medical School.
• Hayley McCausland (PhD 2021) is an automation scientist at Pivot Bio who develops and optimizes bench-scale workflows using automated tools through a combination of benchwork, programming liquid-handling robots, and evaluating current workflows. • Yasmeen Medhat (BA 2023) is a first-year medical school student at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.
 
• Robert Potter (BA 2015) is an assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and assistant director at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. 
 
 Kara Helmke Rogers (PhD 2014) is the senior director for experiential learning at the University of Texas at Austin, overseeing all experiential learning programs and initiatives for 10,000+ science undergraduate students.
• Adam Schieferecke (PhD 2023) co-founded and leads discovery research at Vivere Oncotherapies, a Berkeley-based biotechnology company developing best-in-class, IV-administered oncotherapy products with improved delivery, efficacy, and safety for the treatment of solid cancers.
 
• John Sorfleet (BA 2018) is an agricultural and standards inspector at the Placer County Department of Agriculture, Parks, and Natural Resources, working to enforce state and federal laws and regulations to protect people and the environment, promote fair and competitive trade, and support agricultural production in California.
• Nikki Touserkani (BA 2024) is a medical assistant at Pulmonary Professionals.  

 


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