Lab Members

Scott Boyd, MD PhD

Principal Investigator

Ji-Yeun Lee, BS (Chemistry)

Lab manager

Ramona Hoh, PhD

Senior Research Scientist

Research Interests:

Allergy, B cell development, immune regulation

Shilpa Joshi, PhD

Senior Research Scientist

Research Interests:

Anti-viral and -bacterial antibody responses, antibody display, antibody biochemistry

Oliver Wirz, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests:

B cell biology

Viral infections

Maxim Zaslavsky, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Co-advisor: Anshul Kundaje, Computer Science

Research Interests:

Machine Learning, Immunology, Genetics

Emily Haraguchi, BS (Biology)

Research Associate

Brandon Lam, PhD

Medical Student Researcher

Madeleine Scott, MD, PhD

Resident, Researcher

Taylor Pursell, DVM

PhD candidate in Microbiology and Immunology

Prasanti Kotagiri, MD PhD

Fulbright Fellow

Xiaorui Han, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Artem Mikelov, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Valeriia Skatova

Research Intern

Jumana Afaghani

PhD candidate in Immunology

Chiho Im

PhD candidate in Computer Science

Jennifer Jenks, MD PhD

Resident/Fellow Researcher

Liel Cohen-Lavi, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Former Lab Members +/- Ongoing Collaborators

Katharina Roeltgen, PhD

Scientist

Research Interests:

Immunity to influenza

Viral pathogens, Buruli Ulcer

Fan (Sunny) Yang, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests:

Bioinformatics

Antigen receptor sequence analysis

Tho Pham, MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University

Research interests:

Clinical informatics, anti-glycan antibodies, host-microbiome interactions, autoimmunity and inflammation, diabetes

Khoa Nguyen, BS (Biology)

Research Associate

Research Interests:

Anti-glycan antibodies, B cell development

Massa Shoura, Ph.D. (Joint with Andrew Fire)

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests:

Experimental and computational genomics

Grace Jean

Ph.D. candidate, Developmental Biology

Research Interests:

Immunology, Genetics

Sandra Nielsen, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow; now Senior Research Scientist at Invitae

Research Interests:

B cell development, anti-helminth immunity, host-environment interactions

Hannah Frank, PhD (with bat)

Postdoctoral fellow; now Assistant Professor, Tulane University

Research Interests:

Immunity, ecology and evolution, viromes, immunology of non-model organisms

Krishna Roskin, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow; now an Assistant Professor, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center & University of Cincinnati

Katherine Jackson, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow; now Senior Research Officer at the Garvan Institute, Sydney, Australia

Jake Glanville, PhD

Graduate student, PhD 2017

Jasmine King, PhD

Graduate student, PhD 2017; now researcher at LakePharma, Inc.

Yi Liu, PhD

Graduate student, PhD 2014; now at Calico

Chen Wang, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow; now a Statistical Programmer at Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Vaishali Dixit, BA (French Literature)

Database administrator

Cathy Collins, MD PhD

Research fellow; now an Assistant Professor in Allergy and Immunology at Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego

James Sekigahama, BA

Research Associate

 

Parastu (Para) Nejad, BS (Biology)

Research Associate; now Associate Scientist at TrueBinding

 

Hannah Tsunemoto, BS (Biology)

Summer student; now a PhD candidate at UC San Diego

Priya Dixit

Summer Student. Entering Pomona College in Fall 2019

 

Sonal Patel

Summer student; UC Davis B.S. in Business/Managerial Economics; now starting as Analyst at Accenture

Swetha Shutthanandan

Summer student; now an undergraduate at Stanford University

Katie Seo, MS (Animal Sciences), MS (Software Engineering)

Lab manager