Roy Wollman

Principal Investigator

• Postdoc, Stanford University
• Ph.D., Cellular and Developmental Biology, UC Davis
• B.S, Biology and Statistics, Tel-Aviv University

Projects: Everything!

Hobbies: Hiking, camping, convincing students to do difficult experiments.

Fangming Xie

Postdoc

• PhD, Biophysics, University of California at San Diego
• BSc Physics, University of Science and Technology of China

Projects: Fangming is interested in spatially aligning samples to a reference using a common coordinate system. His interests are in spatial transcriptomics application to neuroscience.

Hobbies: Hiking, classical music, and turning picture book pages for my daughter.

Evan Maltz

Graduate Student

• Ph.D Program, Biochemistry, Structural and Molecular Biology, University of California at Los Angeles
• B.S. Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin- Madison
• B.S. Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin- Madison

Projects: Evan is interested in NFkB dynamics and translocation. He uses optogenetics, sequential FISH, and "deep" automated image analysis to resolve correlations between single-cell phenotypic variability and differences in gene expression.

Hobbies: Painting, biking, hiking, and artificial (un)intelligence.

Zach Hemminger

Graduate Student

• Ph.D Program, Biochemistry, Structural and Molecular Biology, University of California at Los Angeles
• B.S. Chemistry - Biochemistry concentration, St John Fisher College
• B.S. Biology, St John Fisher College

Projects: Zach uses sequential smFISH to study the organization of gene expression at the single cell level in corneal wound healing

Hobbies: Volleyball and Camping.

Gaby Tam

Graduate Student

• Ph.D Program, Biochemistry, Structural and Molecular Biology, University of California at Los Angeles
• B.S., Biochemistry, University of California at Riverside

Projects: Gaby is interested in calcium signaling dynamics and is using a combination of CRISPR/Cas9 and MERFISH to study the robustness of this system.

Hobbies: Gardening, biking, running, and drawing.

Jonathan Perrie

Graduate Student

• PhD Program, Bioinformatics, University of California at Los Angeles
• MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo
• BSc, Computer Science & Statistics, Dalhousie University

Projects: Jonathan is working to help massively scale-up DNA hybridization comparisons.

Hobbies: Cooking without recipes, running to work, and consuming Reuters news snippets

Rambo
Lab Dog

Projects: Emotional support for graduate students on Boyer 5th floor.

Hobbies: Carrots