Max Pearson, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow

Education:

B.S.                 University College London

M.S.           London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Ph.D.          Imperial College London

Expertise:

Molecular Biology

Microbiology

Infectious Disease Pathogenesis

Email: Max.Pearson@cshs.org

Cynthia Rodriguez, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow

Education:

B.S.                 University of California, Irvine

Ph.D.          University of California, Irvine 

Expertise:

Isolation and purification of bacteria from human and environmental samples

Bacterial whole genome sequencing and assembly

Bacterial 16S amplicon and metagenomic analysis

Email: Cynthia.Rodriguez3@cshs.org

Lai (Lisa) Wei, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow

Education:

B.S.                 Jilin University

M.S.          China Agricultural University & Huazhong Agricultural University

Ph.D.          University of Nevada, Reno

Expertise:

Gut Physiology and Pathology

Cell Biology

Mouse Survival Surgery

Email: Lai.Wei@cshs.org

Nawele Lahcene, M.S. - Graduate Student

Education:

B.S.                University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France

M.S.               Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Expertise:

Human Physiopathology & Metabolism

Molecular Biology

Genetic Analysis

Email: Nawele.Lahcene@cshs.org

Junha Lee, M.S. - Graduate Student

Education:

B.S.                Seoul National University

M.S.               University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Expertise:

Isolation & Identification of Bacteria

Diet-Microbe Interactions

Microfluidic Devices

Email: Junha.Lee@cshs.org

Eve Mejia - Research Associate

Education:

B.S.                Cal Poly Humboldt

Expertise:

Pathology

Cell Biology

Medical Microbiology

Email: Eve.Mejia@cshs.org

Previous Lab Members

Connie Ha, Ph.D - Postdoctoral Fellow

Education:

B.S.                 University of Sydney, Australia

Ph.D.               University of Sydney, Australia

Expertise:

High-Throughput Sequencing

Microbial Cultivation

Histology

Currently a Microbial Genomics CoLab Director at UC San Francisco

Gus Hendrick - Research Associate, Lab Manager

Education:

B.S.       University of California - Los Angeles

Expertise:

Developmental Biology

Phylogenetic Analysis

Gene Regulation

Currently a medical student at Dartmouth Medical School

Kruttika Dabke, MS - Rotating Graduate Student

Education:

B.Pharm       University of Mumbai, India

M.S.       University of Southern California

Expertise:

Genetic Engineering

Molecular Biology

Cell Biology

Currently a graduate student at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Amber DeVries - Rotating Graduate Student

Education:

B.S.       University of California - Los Angeles

Expertise:

Metagenomic Sequencing

Microbial Cultivation

Genetic Analysis

Currently a graduate student at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Abigail Landers - Research Intern

Education:

B.S., B.A.        University of California - Berkeley

Expertise:

Environmental Microbial Cultivation

Computational Biology

Metabolomics

JR Caldera, MLS(ASCP)CM - Rotating Graduate Student

Education/Training:

B.S.       CSU Long Beach

CLS      Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Expertise:

Medical Microbiology & Infectious Disease

Clinical Microbial Cultivation

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing

Currently a graduate student at UC San Diego/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Christian Arias, M.S. - Research Associate, Lab Manager

Education:

B.S.                Columbia University

M.S.               Boston University

Expertise:

Immunology

Flow Cytometry

Infectious Disease

Ashok Sharma, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow

Education:

B.Pharm.                Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, India

M.S. (Pharm)          NIPER Mohali, India

Ph.D.          IISER Bhopal, India

Expertise:

Analysis and Integration of Multi-omics Datasets

Diet/Drug-Microbiome-Host Interactions

Programming and Machine Learning

Jacob Moskowitz, D.V.M./Ph.D - Postdoctoral Fellow

Education:

B.A.       Case Western Reserve University

D.V.M.   University of Missouri

Ph.D   University of Missouri

Expertise:

Laboratory Animal Medicine

In-vivo Microbiome Studies

Functional Genomics

Pathology

Casey Duan - Undergraduate Research Intern

Education:

B.S.                University of Southern California

Ariel Finch - Undergraduate Research Intern

Education:

B.S.               Howard University 

Expertise:

Microbiology

Biochemistry

Molecular Physiology & Potassium Homeostasis

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