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Research Team

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Katherine Thompson-Peer, PhD
Principal Investigator

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Patrick Hwu

Graduate Student

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Vini Duarte, PhD
Postdoc

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Yuting Liu
Masters Student

Matthew Hur
co-mentored PhD student

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Anjali Madisetti
undergrad researcher

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Polaris Phan
undergrad technician

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Annie Danh
Undergrad Researcher

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Avantika Pandiyan
Undergrad Researcher

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Nicole Ramirez
Undergrad Researcher

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Viana Najafi
Volunteer Researcher

Current Rotation Students:

​Valeria Castellanos

Lab Alumni:

Sydney Prange, PhD (now Research Development Analyst, UCI School of Physical Sciences)
Sarah Hernandez, PhD (now the Director of Research Programs, Hereditary Disease Foundation)

Anatoli Slepenkin, PhD (now full time in the de la Maza lab, Dept of Pathology, UCI)
Jasmin Kwak (now at Brandeis)

Undergrad Researcher Alums:

Lauren Kim
Isha Bhakta (about to start grad school at UC Riverside)
Jada Mars, Summer 2024, CNLM NSF REU
Hieu Le
Dario Rimicci
Vicky Lam
Ly Duong
Erika Zagni
Daria Sysoeva
Asal Kalantar
Claire Stewart
Hassan Shaikh (lab technician)
Mansher Dhaliwal
Jaela Melton, Summer 2022, CNLM NSF REU (currently in NIH post-bacc program)

Grace Jean  (Currently in Med school/MPH program)
Rocelyn Lee
Miyo Sun
Emily Davis
Jacob Liu
Anita Bari
Carolee Nguyen (Currently at NYU School of Engineering, Bioinformatics program)


Past Rotation Students:
Gautam Narayan (INP Winter 2023)
Daisy Gallardo (INP Winter 2022)
Jasmine Chavez (INP Fall 2021)
Jharrayne McKnight (CMB Fall 2020)
Jeffrey Piña (CMB Winter 2019)
Diana Suder (CMB Fall 2019)

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(as of July 2025)

Black for PI

Green for postdocs & project scientists

Dark blue for grad students

Light blue for Masters students

Purple for undergrads and technicians

(not shown: rotation students)

University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
Office: 4236 McGaugh Hall
Lab: 4444 McGaugh Hall
Lab# (949) 824-3226

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