THE DEVKOTA LAB AT CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER IS LOCATED IN SUNNY LOS ANGELES.

WE ARE IN THE DIVISION OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND F. WIDJAJA FOUNDATION INFLAMMATORY BOWEL AND IMMUNOBIOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE.

 
 
 
SUZANNE.DEVKOTA@CSHS.ORG

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@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@CSHS.ORG

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

 
 
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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

 
 
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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

 
 
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Abigail Landers - Research Intern

Education:

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

 

Expertise:

Environmental Microbial Cultivation

Computational Biology

Metabolomics

 

 
 
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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

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

Education:

B.S.                Columbia University

M.S.               Boston University

 

Expertise:

Immunology

Flow Cytometry

Infectious Disease

 
 
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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

 
 
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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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