Lab Members

Current Members

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John Gross, PhD

jdgross@cgl.ucsf.edu

Professor, Principal Investigator

Protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions in the control of eukaryotic gene expression and viral infection.
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Trase Aguigam

Trase.Aguigam@ucsf.edu

Graduate Student (joint with Geeta Narlikar)
Tetrad Program

Chromatin, RNA and biological condensates.
BS, UC Los Angeles. Chromatin and transcriptional regulation.
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Gabriel Braun

Gabriel.Braun@ucsf.edu

Graduate Student
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

RNA processing and biological condensates
BS, Haverford College, Biochemical and biophysical studies of protein and peptide self-assembly
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Leandrew Dailey

Leandrew.Dailey@ucsf.edu

Graduate Student
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Enzymology of protein ubiquitination by HIV accessory proteins.
BS, Chemistry-Biochemistry concentration, Fort Lewis College.
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Gracie Bitting

Gracie.Bitting@ucsf.edu

QBI Intern

Biochemical mechanisms of cross-species transmission of primate lentiviruses.
Biophysics Major, UCLA
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Xi Liu, PhD

xi.liu@ucsf.edu

Postdoctoral Scholar

Innate Immunity.
PhD, Tsinghua University. Structural biology of cytokine and receptor complex.
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Rachel Nealon

Rachel.Nealon@ucsf.edu

Scientific Research Associate

Biochemistry and biophysics of RNP assemblies.
B.A., Bowdoin College. Time-resolved emission spectroscopy of proton transfer in condensed phases
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Yange Niu, PhD

yange.niu@ucsf.edu

Postdoctoral Scholar

HIV Vif and APOBEC3.
PhD, Peking University. Structural biology and mechanism of SGLT2 inhibitors.
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Estelle Ronayne

Estelle.Ronayne@ucsf.edu

Graduate Student (joint with Yifan Cheng)
Biophysics

Pathogen hijack of the ubiquitin proteolysis pathway.
BS/BA, Western Washington University, Structural characterization of factor VIII and an antibody inhibitor

Lab Alumni

Victor Lam

Graduate Student, 2023

Postdoctoral Scholar, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA

Yen-Li Li

Postdoctoral Schcolar, 2023

Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Ryan Tibble

Graduate Student, 2021

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Jessica Peters

Postdoctoral Scholar, 2021

Staff Scientist, QuidelOrtho, Rochester, NY

Serena Sanulli

Postdoctoral Scholar, 2020

Assistant Professor, Stanford University

Joe Lobel

Graduate Student, 2020

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Jeff Mugridge

Postdoctoral Scholar, 2019

Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

Jennifer Binning

Postdoctoral Scholar, 2018

Assistant Professor, Moffitt Cancer Center

Lily Burton

Lab Manager, Research Technician, 2018

Graduate Student in Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, University of Chicago

David Paquette

Graduate Student, 2017

Associate Research Director, Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease , UMASS Amherst

Natasha Hessami

Summer Student, 2016

Fullbright Scholar and MSc Social Policy, Univ. Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Mikhaela Arambulo

Research Technician, 2015

MD, Resident in Anesthesiology, UCSF

Robin Aglietti

Graduate Student, 2014

Principal Scientist at TRexBio, South San Francisco, CA

David Stanley

Graduate Student, 2013

Associate Director, Downstream Process Development, Sutro Biopharma, South San Francisco, CA

Adam Steeves

Postdoctoral Scholar, 2013

Assistant Professor, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY

Dong Young Kim

Postdoctoral Scholar, 2013

Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University, South Korea

Eunju Kwon

Postdoctoral Scholar, 2013

Research Scientist, Yeungnam University, South Korea

Shilpa Maroju

Research Technician, 2013

Research Associate, Genentech

Stephen Floor

Graduate Student, 2011

Associate Professor, UCSF

Linda Yen

Research Technician, 2011

Patent Agent, Morrison Foerster, San Francisco, CA

Mark Borja

Graduate Student, 2011

Assistant Professor, Cal State East Bay

Henock Woldu

Summer Student, 2010

Pharmacy Student, UCSF

Britnee Jones

Graduate Student, 2010

Director, Field Application Science at Fabric Genomics

Gail Hernandez

Summer Student, 2009

Graduate Student, University of Chicago

Jeremy Mason-Herr

Research Technician, 2009

Software Engineer, Verily Life Sciences

Jeremy Flinders

Postdoctoral Scholar, 2008

Primary Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent and Trademark office

Duc-Uy Quang-Dang

Research Technician, 2007

MD, Sutter Health

Mandar Deshmukh

Postdoctoral Scholar, 2006

Principle Scientist , CCMB, Hyderabad, India

Yuko Oku

Research Technician, 2005

Healthcare Equity Research Analyst, Morgan Stanley