WE ARE IN THE DIVISION OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND F. WIDJAJA FOUNDATION INFLAMMATORY BOWEL AND IMMUNOBIOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Suzanne Devkota, Ph.D - Associate Professor
Director Microbiome Research, F. Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute
Assistant Professor-in-Residence, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles
Branco Weiss-Society in Science Fellow
Member, California Nanosystems Institute
Other Cedars-Sinai Appointments:
Diabetes & Obesity Research Institute; Biomedical Sciences; Center for Genomics & Functional Biology
Education:
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Post-Doc Harvard Medical School/Joslin Diabetes Center
Email: Suzanne.Devkota@cshs.org
Anthony Martin, Ph.D - Senior Scientist
Education:
B.S. Loyola Marymount University
Ph.D. University of Southern California
Expertise:
Steroid Hormone Signaling
Skeletal Physiology & Homeostasis
Gene Regulation/Transcription
Email: Anthony.Martin@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
Quan Nhan, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow
Education:
B.S. University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
Expertise:
Bacterial Toxin/Anti-Toxin System
Bacterial Genetics
Protein Biochemistry
Email: Dinhquan.Nhan@cshs.org
Carolina Koletic, M.D. - Medical Fellow
Education:
M.D. University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Croatia
Residency University of Nevada Las Vegas Pediatrics
Residency University of California Los Angeles Pediatric Gastroenterology
Expertise:
VEO-IBD
Early Life Microbiome
Immune System Development
Email: Carolina.Koletic@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
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
Yashika Bopanna - Rotating Graduate Student
Education:
B.S. Visvesvaraya Technological University, India
Expertise:
Molecular Biology
Cell Biology
Histology
Email: Yashika.Bopanna@cshs.org
Amanda Mrad - Undergraduate Research Intern
Education:
B.S. University of California, Los Angeles
Expertise:
Integrative Physiology
Diet-Microbiome Interactions
Cell Biology
Email: Amanda.Mrad@cshs.org
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