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Thompson-Peer Lab

Matthew Hur
co-mentored PhD student

Anjali Madisetti
undergrad researcher

Polaris Phan
undergrad technician

Avantika Pandiyan
Undergrad Researcher

Nicole Ramirez
Undergrad Researcher

Viana Najafi
Volunteer Researcher
Current Rotation Students:
Aidan Baraban (INP)
Lab Alumni:
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:
Annie Danh
Lauren Kim
Isha Bhakta (went on to 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
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:
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 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)
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