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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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Sydney Prange
Graduate Student

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Yuting Liu
Masters Student

Matthew Hur
co-mentored PhD student

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Lauren Kim
Undergrad Researcher

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Anjali Madisetti
undergrad researcher

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Polaris Phan
undergrad technician

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Annie Danh
Undergrad Researcher

Avantika Pandiyan
Undergrad Researcher

Current Rotation Students:

Lab Alumni:

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:

Isha Bhakta
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

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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