About the Stanford cEMc

Ruth O’Hara
Senior Associate Dean of Research, Stanford School of Medicine

Dr. O’Hara provides high level oversight to all research centers associated with Stanford Medical School, including cEMc. She directs a broad interdisciplinary clinical research program, encompassing cellular models, physiological predictors, and brain and behavioral assays of psychiatric, medical, and cognitive disorders. Her current research interests are in sleep, pediatrics, and aging.

William (Will) Arnold, PhD
CryoEM Scientific Manager

Will oversees the general operations and direction of cEMc. He obtained his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign studying the physical biochemistry of membrane proteins and lipids. He then transitioned to the University of California San Francisco where he worked as a postdoc in the labs of David Julius and Yifan Cheng using cryoEM to resolve the lipid gating mechanism of the capsaicin receptor (TRPV1). Will is passionate about utilizing cryoEM and cryoET to resolve important questions regarding membrane protein and lipid function.

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Bharti Singal, PhD
CryoEM Staff Scientist (specialist)

Bharti is a structural biologist and biochemist specializing in CryoEM and CryoET. She actively assists and collaborates with researchers at Stanford and has contributed to diverse research projects including LNP characterization, structure determination of soluble and membrane protein complexes with/without ligands, and exploratory cryoET projects using Cryo FIB-SEM. She is an expert in the complete gene-to-structure pipeline, with proficiency in biophysical techniques. Before joining cEMc, she worked as a Postdoc at the University of California Davis, earned her Ph.D. from NTU, Singapore, and M.Sc. in Bioinformatics from JMI, India. A trained graduate teacher, Bharti finds joy in learning something new every day, which enhances her teaching and research endeavors.

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Haoqing Wang, PhD
CryoEM Staff Scientist 

Haoqing is a structural biologist interested in antibody-antigen complexes and GPCRs. He collaborates with students, postdocs, and faculty members in single particle cryo-EM, cryo-ET, and molecular modeling. He worked as a Postdoc at Stanford, in Brian Kobilka's lab. Before that, he obtained his PhD at Caltech, in Pamela Bjorkman's lab. He received his undergraduate degree at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and conducted his undergraduate thesis with Zhihong Guo.

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Christopher Haley, PhD
Computational Resources and Data Management Specialist 

Chris is a fluid dynamicist with extensive experience in high performance computing. He enjoys leveraging computing power to solve otherwise intractable problems, and working with researchers to resolve their technical problems. Chris has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from UCLA, and splits his time between cEMc and Stanford Research Computing (SRC).

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David Fernandez-Martinez, PhD
CryoEM Staff Scientist

David is a structural biologist interested in host-pathogen interactions as well as and antibody and small-molecule drug design projects. He has cryo-ET experience and has worked on or led gene-to-structure projects in helical, membrane and soluble single-particle cryo-EM. He worked as a Postdoc in Guillaume Dumenil’s lab at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He obtained an industrial PhD between Sanofi and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France. He enjoys training users and collaborating on exciting projects that involve EM.

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