Orion Weiner
Principal Investigator
orion.weiner@ucsf.edu
Kate Cavanaugh
Postdoc | kate.cavanaugh@ucsf.edu
Pre-implantation embryo mechanics, Mechanotransduction, Cell fate logic
Rosheni Kandaswamy
Research Associate | rosheni.kandaswamy@ucsf.edu
Neutrophil swarming, Primary immune cells, Model system comparisons
Nitya Kopparapu
PhD student | nitya.kopparapu@ucsf.edu
Collective cell migration, Immune cell interactions, Neutrophil swarming
Lori Luo
MD-PhD student | lori.luo@ucsf.edu
Innate immunity, mechanotransduction, cellular decision making
Nicholas Martin
Postdoc | nicholas.martin@ucsf.edu
Collective cell behavior, Optogenetics, Closed-loop microscopy
Shivani Pandey
PhD student | shivani.pandey@ucsf.edu
Cell polarity, Optogenetics, Actin regulators
Elysse Phillips
PhD student | elysse.phillips@ucsf.edu
Embryo implantation, Symmetry breaking, Cell mechanics and fate
Sneha Rao
PhD Student | sneha.rao@ucsf.edu
Early embryo cell fate decisions, Signaling dynamics
David Sanchez Godinez
PhD student | david.sanchezgodinez@ucsf.edu
Epithelial cell migration, Polarity coordination, Optogenetics
Henry Scott
PhD student | henry.scott@ucsf.edu
De novo protein design, Cell-cell signaling, Multicellular signal coordination
Sue Sim
Postdoc | sue.sim@ucsf.edu
Cell shape, Actin regulators, Protein self-organization
Zhidong Tan
PhD student | zhidong.tan@ucsf.edu
T-cell signaling, cell-cell interfaces
Bella Wischik
PhD student | bella.wischik@ucsf.edu
Cell-cell signaling, Innate immunity, Collective cell migration
Patrick Zager
PhD student | patrick.zager@ucsf.edu
Cell shape, 3D imaging, Cell mechanics, Membrane tension
ALUMNI
| NAME | CURRENT POSITION | ORIGINAL POSITION IN LAB |
|---|---|---|
| Henry De Belly | Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern Children's Medical Center Research Institute | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Ben Winer | Assistant Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Kirstin Meyer | Assistant Professor, Yale University | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Suvrajit Saha | Senior Scientist, Calico Labs | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Brian Graziano | Principal Scientist, Jnana Therapeutics | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Jeffrey Alexander | Director, Systemic Gene Therapies Research, Spark Therapeutics | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Stephanie Woo | Associate Professor, University of California, Merced | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Clare Buckley | Group Leader, University of Manchester | EMBO Postdoc |
| Alba Diz-Muñoz | Group Leader, EMBL, Heidelberg Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Jared Toettcher | Associate Professor, Princeton, Department of Molecular Biology | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Delquin Gong | Principal Program Manager, Calico; delquin@stanfordalumni.org | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Oliver Hoeller | Scientific Illustrator | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Evelyn Strickland | Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Morgan Huse Lab | Graduate Student |
| Muziyue Wu | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Jim Ferrell Lab | Graduate Student |
| Tamas Nagy | Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA, Thomas Rando Lab | Graduate Student |
| Jason Town | Scientist 3, Genentech | Graduate Student |
| Derek Britain | Senior Scientist, Renasant Bio | Graduate Student |
| Rachel Brunetti | Scientist II, Altos Labs | Graduate Student |
| Anne Pipathsouk | Senior Scientist, Fountain Therapeutics | Graduate Student |
| Doug Tischer | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington, David Baker Lab, tischered@gmail.com | Graduate Student |
| Justin Mclaurin | Consultant, ZS Associates; jdmclaurin1@gmail.com | Graduate Student |
| Zairan Liu | Associate Principal, IQVIA; liuzairan@gmail.com | Graduate Student |
| Miriam Genuth | Postdoctoral Scholar, Yale, Holley Lab | Graduate Student |
| Anna Reade | Senior Scientist and Director of PFAS Advocacy, Natural Resources Defense Council | Graduate Student |
| Anna Payne-Tobin Jost | Associate Director of Imaging Education, Harvard Medical School | Graduate Student |
| Julie Wu | Assistant Professor, UCLA | Graduate Student |
| Sheel Dandekar | Staff Data Scientist, Google sheel.dandekar@gmail.com | Graduate Student |
| Andrew Houk | Scientist, Fate Therapeutics; houksyndrome@gmail.com | Graduate Student |
| Arthur Millius | Assistant Professor, Osaka University | Graduate Student |
| Dorothy Estrada | Graduate Student, University of Oregon; dest@uoregon.edu | Research Associate |
| Grace Yun | Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub | Research Associate |
| Natasha Puri | Postdoctoral Scholar, Denali Therapeutics | Research Associate |
| Sana Chintamen | Scientist, Cajal Neuroscience | Research Associate |
| Anna Schreiber | Resident Physician, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus | Research Associate |
| Grace Peng | Postdoctoral Fellow, Genentech | Research Associate |
| Sarah Wilson | Graduate Student, MCB, Berkeley; lambda450@berkeley.edu | Research Associate |
| Shuaixin He | Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University, Bin Wu Lab | Visiting Undergraduate |
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