 Postdoctoral Scholar Ph.D. Biochemistry Unfair advantage: Can think like a protein
Interests: Regulation of gut bacterial drug metabolizing enzymes |
 iMicro Fellow (T32) Ph.D. Genome Sciences Unfair advantage: Is living in the cloud, gets free trips to Israel
Interests: Modeling gut bacterial metabolism |
 Summer Intern Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Unfair advantage: Followed a sketchy Chinese protocol on making 130 tubes of DH5alpha cells and they all worked!
Interests: Bacterial genetics and biochemistry |
 Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D. Unfair advantage: Knows what the gut-brain axis is
Interests: Role of the microbiome in the treatment of neurodegenerative disease |
 Lab Manager, 2017 B.A. Microbiology Unfair advantage: makes the best lab signs, infinite patience
Interests: training and assisting the next generation of microbiologists |
 Administrative Assistant, 2017 Unfair advantage: organization skills, lives near Noah’s Bagels
Interests: nurturing a collaborative and efficient research environment |
 Director, UCSF Gnotobiotic Core, 2014 Ph.D. Molecular Cell Biology, B.Sc. Biology Unfair advantage: can coordinate dozens of projects at once
Interests: accelerating and improving gnotobiotics |
 BMS MSTP student B.A. Unfair advantage: Great at maths
Interests: bacterial interactions, bioinformatics, bioactives |
 BMS Graduate Student, 2017 B.A. Biology, NSF Graduate Fellow Unfair advantage: colorimetric assays
Interests: bacterial metabolism of food and drug additives |
 SFBUILD Intern BA (in progress) Unfair advantage: Knows the secret to Blue Bottle coffee
Interests: Measuring and isolating microbial bioactives |
 Junior Specialist, 2021 B.A. Molecular and Cell Biology Unfair advantage: Knows Adam Arkin
Interests: Bacterial evasion of phage targeting |
 Postdoctoral fellow, 2017 Ph.D. in Immunology, B.A. in Biology Unfair advantage: science hiakus, knows all the interleukins
Interests: control of immune function by bacterial metabolites |
 Quantitative Metabolite Analysis Center (QMAC) Director Ph.D. Natural Products Unfair advantage: Understands mass spectrometry
Interests: Plant and microbe-derived natural products |
 Professor Ph.D. in Genomics, B.A. in Biochemistry, Minor in Film Studies Unfair advantage: was in the room where it happened
Interests: predicting and controlling the metabolism of complex microbial communities |
 BMS Graduate Student, 2020 B.A. in Biology, NSF Graduate Fellow Unfair advantage: Can think like a mouse
Interests: Sexually dimorphic host-microbiome interactions |
 BMS MD/PhD student, 2017 B.A. in Biology Unfair advantage: knows how to isolate weird bacteria
Interests: Gut bacterial control of drug absorption |
 Clinical Fellow, Pulmonology M.D., Ph.D. Unfair advantage: Never vaped before
Interests: Ketogenesis, ethnicity, COVID-19 |
 Tetrad Graduate student, 2017 B.A. in Biology, NSF Graduate Fellow Unfair advantage: can actually get statins to dissolve in solution
Interests: antimicrobial effects of statins |