Members

Members

Abraham Palmer, PhD
Principal Investigator

Location: BRF2 3A24
Phone: 858-534-2093
Email: aapalmer@health.ucsd.edu

Oksana Polesskaya, PhD
Scientific Coordinator

Email: opolesskaya@health.ucsd.edu

Amanda Barkley-Levenson, PhD
Assistant Project Scientist

Email: ambarkleylevenson@health.ucsd.edu

Daniel Munro, PhD
Post Doc

Email: dmunro@scripps.edu

Joel David Leal Gutierrez, PhD
Post Doc

Email: jdleal@health.ucsd.edu

Milad Mortazavi, PhD
Post Doc

Email: smmortazavi@health.ucsd.edu

Riyan Cheng, PhD
Associate Project Scientist

Email: ric025@health.ucsd.edu

Sandra Sanchez-Roige, PhD
Assistant Professor

Email: s5sanchezroige@health.ucsd.edu

Apurva Chitre, MS
Bioinformatics Team Leader

Email: aschitre@health.ucsd.edu

Ariana Page, BA
Research Associate

Email: a2page@health.ucsd.edu

Bonnie Lin, BA
Bioinformatician 

Email: b2lin@health.ucsd.edu

Denghui Chen, BS
Bioinformatician 

Email: dec037@health.ucsd.edu

Elizabeth Colonna, BS
Master's Thesis Student

Email: elalcant@ucsd.edu

Katarina Cohen, BA
Lab Assistant

Email: kcohen@health.ucsd.edu

Khai-Minh Nguyen, BS
Research Assistant

Email: khn002@health.ucsd.edu

Beverly Peng, BS
Bioinformatician 

Email: b3peng@health.ucsd.edu

Brittany Leger, BS

PhD Student

Email: bsleger@health.ucsd.edu

Zeljana Babic, MS
PhD Student

Email:

Clara Ortez, BS
Lab Assistant

Email: caortez@ucsd.edu

Undergraduates

Alejandra Nicanor

Undergraduate

Email: ainicano@ucsd.edu

Nili Farhadi
Undergraduate

Email: nifarhad@ucsd.edu

Emily Han
Undergraduate

 

Past Lab Members

Alan Lin
REHU Student

Email: akl6@williams.edu

 

Sammy Myakishev-Rempel
REHU Student

Email: samuelrempel@gmail.com

Alison Sweet, BS
Research Associate

2019-2021

Hannah Bimschleger
Laboratory Manager

2017-2021

Amelie Baud, PhD
Visiting Scholar

2017-2020

Xinzhu Zhou, PhD
Grad Student

2015-2020

Yu-yu Ren, PhD
Post Doc
2016-2019
Jianjun Gao, PhD
Biostatistician

2014-2019

Alex Gileta, PhD
Grad Student

2013-2018

Celine St. Pierre, BA
Lab Manager/Technician
2012-2017

Currently PhD student at
Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Kayla Chase, PhD
Post Doc
2015-2017

Currently Medical Science Liason, Midwest Territory at Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.

April Williams, PhD
Post Doc
2015-2017

Currently Bioinformatics Scientist at Arima Genomics

Natalia Gonzales, PhD
Grad Student
2011-2017
Laura Sittig, PhD
Post Doc
2012-2017

Currently consultant at SelectHealth

Jungkyun Seo, BA
Biostatistician
2015-2016

Currently PhD student at Duke University

Katherine Johnston McMurray, PhD
Grad Student
2012-2015

Currently Post Doc with Dr. Renu Sah at the University of Cincinnati

Shyam Gopalakrishnan, PhD
Post-Doc
2011-2015

Currently Post Doc at EvoGenomics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark

Camila Barrios Camacho, BA
PREP Scholar
2013-2014

Currently PhD Student at Tufts University

Peter Carbonetto, PhD
Post Doc
2013-2014

Currently Computational Scientist at Research Computing Center and Dept. of Human Genetics at Matthew Stephens' Lab at the University of Chicago

Emily Leung, BA
Lab Technician
2012-2014

Currently MPH Student at Mailman School of Public Health - Columbia University

Amy Hart, PhD
Grad Student
2009-2013

Currently Post Doc at Center for Studies of Addiction University of Pennsylvania

Clarissa Parker, PhD
Post Doc
2009-2013

Currently Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Middlebury College

Emmanuel Aryee, MD
Lab Technician
2012-2013

Former MD Student at Geisel School of Medicine - Dartmouth College

Camron Bryant, PhD
Post Doc
2007-2012

Currently Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry at Boston School of Medicine

Garrett Birkhoff, BA
Lab Technician
2011-2012

 

 

 

Margaret Distler, MD
Grad Student
2008-2012

Completed Psychiatry Residency Training Program at University of California Los Angeles

Greta Sokoloff, PhD
Research Associate
2007-2011

Currently Research Associate at Department of Psychology - University of Iowa

David Rosenberg, BS
Grad Student
2009-2011

Currently a medical student at UIC (Chicago campus) and part of the 'Innovations in Medicine' program.

Michael DeMeyer, BA
Lab Technician
2009-2011

Currently Administrative Intern at The Comprehensive Group

Amy Yang, MD
Post Doc
2008-2010

Currently Adult Psychiatry Resident at Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience - University of Chicago

Claudia Wing, MS
Lab Technician
2008-2009

Currently Senior Research Technician in Department of Medicine - Hematology Oncology - University of Chicago

Jackie Lim, PhD
Post Doc
2006-2008

Currently Research Scientist at Duke University

Richard Williams IV, PhD
PREP Scholar
2006-2007

Currently Senior Computational Research Consultant at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University

Christine Ponder, PhD
Grad Student
2003-2007

Currently Associate Director at NYU Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

Michaelanne Woerner (nee Munoz), PhD
Lab Technician
2006-2008

Currently Post Doc at Department of Neuroscience - Tufts University

Ney Alliey-Rodriguez, MD
Post Doc
2007

Currently Research Associate & Assistant Professor in Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience - University of Chicago

Past Undergraduates

Amy Lee
Undergraduate

2017-2020

UCSD School of Medicine Class of 2025

Jazlene Mallari
Undergraduate

2016-2019

Frances Lagarda
Undergraduate
2017-2018
Daniel Liu
High School
2017
Fangchao He
Undergraduate
2017
John Shin
Undergraduate
2017
Nishant Mysore
Undergraduate
2017
Yuya Zhao
Undergraduate
2017
Yvette Tan
Undergraduate
2017
Elizabeth Lipschultz
Undergraduate / Summer Student
2015-2016
(2016: from University of Chicago via NIDA Center for Outbred Rats REU)
Africa McLeod
Undergraduate
2015
Alex Ho
Undergraduate
2014-2015
Alisha Ho
Undergraduate
2014-2015
Brittny Bloomenstiel
Undergraduate
2014-2015
Charissa Newkirk
Undergraduate
2014-2015
Kate Krauss
Undergraduate
2013-2015
Kyle Engel
Undergraduate
2013-2015
Liz Joyce
Undergraduate
2014-2015
Rachael MaGuire
Undergraduate
2015
Shibani Chettri
Summer Student
2015
(from The Ohio State University via NIDA Center for Outbred Rats REHU)
Matt Cheung
Undergraduate
2012-2014
Miranda Scarlata
High School
2014
Phillip Stephens
Summer Student
2014
(from Morehouse College via Leadership Alliance Program)
Yeonhee Park
Undergraduate
2011-2014
Emily Tixier
High School / Undergraduate
2010-2013
Naomi Gorfinkle
Undergraduate
2009-2013
Alexandra Dattilo
Undergraduate
2011-2012
Joe Davis
Undergraduate
2011-2012
Michael Guido
Undergraduate
2009-2012
Loren Kole
High School / Undergraduate
2009-2011
Marie Wu
Undergraduate
2011
Kaitlin Samocha
Undergraduate
2006-2010
Honors Thesis
Elizabeth Wagner
Undergraduate
2010
Colin Walker
High School
2010
Stacey Kirkpatrick
Undergraduate
2008-2010
Ben Chang
Undergraduate
2006-2009
Melissa Graham
Undergraduate
2006-2009
Honors Thesis
Ben Postone
High School
2008
Qian Zhang
Undergraduate
2008
Andrew Lee Chen
Undergraduate
2006-2007
Chetan Huded
Undergraduate
2006