Current Members:
Alan Frankel, Ph.D., Professor
Yang Li, Ph.D, Postdoctoral Fellow: Structure and function of HIV Tat-host protein complexes
Amber Smith, Ph.D, Postdoctoral Fellow: Cryo-EM of HIV Rev/RRE nuclear export complexes
Ariana Velarde, Graduate Student: Design of novel Rev dimers
Rob Nakamura, Ph.D, Visiting Scientist
Maliheh Safari, Ph.D, Visiting Scientist
Cielito Cespedes, Lab Assistant
Michelle Kwong, Administrative Assistant
Recent Predoctoral Alumni:
Dates | Name | Program or School | Current Position |
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1993 - 2000 | Bernhard Walberer | Biophysics | Consultant |
1993 - 1998 | Aenoch Lynn | PIBS Biochemistry | Consultant |
1995 - 2004 | Steven Landt | PIBS Biochemistry |
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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 |
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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 |