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
Becca Quimby, Administrative Assistant
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 |