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Research Team

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Katherine Thompson-Peer, PhD
Principal Investigator

Matthew Hur
co-mentored PhD student

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Kai Sodergren
Undergrad assistant

Current Rotation Students:

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Lab Alumni:
Patrick Hwu, PhD (now a postdoc working on zebrafish hematopoesis)
Yuting Liu, MS 

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, MS (now at Brandeis)

Undergrad Researcher Alums:

Hanna Diop (went on to USC)
Viana Najafi (went on to UCLA)
Polaris Phan (went on to Master's program at Univ of Michigan)
Nicole Ramirez
Anjali Madisetti (went on to medical school at Univ of South Florida)
Avantika Pandiyan
Annie Danh (went on to Master's program at USC)
Lauren Kim
Isha Bhakta (went on to grad school at UC Riverside)
Jada Mars, Summer 2024, CNLM NSF REU
Hieu Le
Dario Rimicci (went on to Master's program at University of Utrecht)
Vicky Lam  (went on to work at Scintillion Research Institute in San Diego, CA)
Ly Duong
Erika Zagni (went on to PhD program at Yale)
Daria Sysoeva
Asal Kalantar
Claire Stewart
Hassan Shaikh 
Mansher Dhaliwal
Jaela Melton, Summer 2022, CNLM NSF REU (went on to NIH post-bacc program)

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


Past Rotation Students:

​Fatima Bedier (CMB, Spring 2026)
Aidan Baraban (INP, Fall 2025)
Valeria Castellanos
 (CMB, Summer 2025)
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)

(as of July 2026)

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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