People

Current Members:

Alan Frankel, Ph.D., Professor

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Yang Li, Ph.D, Postdoctoral Fellow: Structure and function of HIV Tat-host protein complexes

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Amber Smith, Ph.D, Postdoctoral Fellow: Cryo-EM of HIV Rev/RRE nuclear export complexes

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Ariana Velarde, Graduate Student: Design of novel Rev dimers

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Rob Nakamura, Ph.D, Visiting Scientist

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Maliheh Safari, Ph.D, Visiting Scientist

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Cielito Cespedes, Lab Assistant

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Becca Quimby, Administrative Assistant

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Recent Predoctoral Alumni:

Dates

Name

Program or School

Current Position

1993 - 2000

Bernhard Walberer

Biophysics

Consultant

1993 - 1998

Aenoch Lynn

PIBS Biochemistry

Consultant

1995 - 2004

Steven Landt

PIBS Biochemistry

 

1997 - 2002

Alan Cheng

Biophysics

Scientist, Merck

1998 - 2003

Valerie Calabro

University of Aix, Marseille

Director, SiaMed'Xpress

2001 - 2003

Emily Mai

MS student, SF State University

 

1998 - 2005

Chandreyee Das

CCB 

Senior Specialist, MilliporeSigma

2002 - 2006

Alex Pastuszak

MSTP, Biomedical Sciences

Resident physician, Baylor College

2003 - 2009

Matthew Daugherty

CCB 

Associate Professor, UCSD

2006 - 2013

Jason Fernandes

PSPG

Scientist, Scribe Therapeutics

2008 - 2014

David Booth

Biophysics

Assistant Professor, UCSF

2010 - 2017

Tyler Faust

Tetrad

Postdoc, Harvard University

2012 - 2014

Naomi Yonis

CCB 

Assoc Manager, BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc.

2014 - 2016

Shumin Yang

Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Tsinghua University, China

 

Recent Postdoctoral Alumni: 

Dates

Name

Subsequent Position

1990 - 1994

Jianshi Tao

Sr. Investigator, Novartis

1990 - 1995

Lily Chen

Professor, San Francisco State University

1992 - 1993

Usha Acharya

Asst Professor, University of Massachusetts

1996 - 1997

Christophe Escude

CNRS, Paris, France

1993 - 1997

Kazuo Harada

Assistant Professor, Tokyo Gakugei University

1991 - 1998

Ruoying Tan

Scientist, Applied Biosystems

1993 - 1999

Colin Smith

Assistant Professor, American University, Beirut

1995 - 2000

Donna Campisi

Patent officer, Ingenuity

1997 - 2000

Damian McColl

Associate Director, Gilead

1997 - 2001

Hadas Zehavi

Asst. Staff Scientist, Weizmann Institute

1999 - 2001

Ralph Peteranderl

Harvard

1998 - 2003

Robert Nakamura

Chief Scientific Officer, Advanced Genetic Systems

1999 - 2003

Bob Xie

Scientist

2000 - 2002

Bixun Wang

Scientist

2001 - 2002

Stephen Edgcomb

Scientist, BPS Bioscience, Inc.

2002 - 2006

Yong-boem Lim

Professor, Yonsei University

2002 - 2005

Jocelyn Grunwell

Pediatrician, Atlanta, GA

2002 - 2006

Dennis Wang

Scientist, Life Technologies

2003 - 2006

Valerie Calabro

Director, SiaMed'Xpress

2006 - 2007

Ali Mokdad

Medical Science Liaison, Sevier

2006 - 2009

Bob Xie

Scientist, Bioassay Systems

2004 - 2010

Ivan D'Orso

Associate Professor, University of Texas Southwestern

2005 - 2010

Gwendolyn Jang

Krogan lab, UCSF

2008 - 2010

Mariana Tioni

Research Associate, Andino lab

2009 - 2010

Elizabeth Quezada

Research Scientist, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

2007 - 2018

Bhargavi Jayaraman

Scientist, Synthekine

2011 - 2014

David Crosby

Medical Science Liaison, Melinta Therapeutics

2013 - 2016

Jason Fernandes

Scientist, Scribe Therapeutics

2017 - 2018

Tsz Kin Martin Tsui

Verba lab, UCSF