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

Alumni

Postdocs

Alok Maity, postdoc at PICB
Alon Oyler-Yaniv, lecturer at Harvard
Amit Kumar, senior applied scientist at Amazon
Igor Nikolskiy
Jen Oyler-Yaniv, assistant professor at Harvard

Graduate Students

Jason Yao
Maeve Nagle, consultant at Boston Consulting Group
Naomi Handley, head of Platform at Octant
Robert Foreman, senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Vizgen
Ryan Lannan, lecturer at UCLA
Thanutra Zhang, scientist at 10x Genomics

Other

Anna Pilko (lab manager), research coordinator at UCSD