Undergraduate Researcher Major in Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Biology (CMDB)
University Honors Program
Irene Tu (she/her)
Undergraduate Researcher Major in Biology <picture coming soon>
Fall 2021, Ph.D. student Younghwan Kwak helping train undergraduate Dana Morshed on how to setup her Honors Keystone Project
Hansen lab meeting Spring 2019
Helping out the advisor;), My first two Ph.D students (Drs. Margaret Thairu and Dohyup Kim) graduating at UCR in June 2019
Former Lab Members
Post-Doctoral / Academic Professionals •Raman Bansal, Ph.D - Visiting Post-doctoral Researcher (Winter 2015) Department of Entomology, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH. Now- Research Entomologist for the ARS USDA, in Parlier, CA Post-doc Funding: IGTRCN's Peer-to-Peer Training Program •Eva Nováková, Ph.D - Visiting Post-doctoral Researcher (Summer 2014) Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia and Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre ASCR- Now-Associate Professor at the University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, Czech Republic Post-doc Funding: EU Education for Competitiveness Operational Programme to EN. •Hongmei Li-Byarlay, Ph.D - Visiting Academic Professional (Fall 2013) & Academic Lab Hourly (Spring 2014). Now- Assistant Professor at Central State University •Dan Pers, Ph.D - Postdoctoral Scholar (Fall 2018- Spring 2020), Currently a Postdoctoral scholar at Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Merrikh Lab
Graduate Students • Margaret Thairu, Ph.D- Now a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Bacteriology • Dohyup Kim, Ph.D- Now a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Neurology department of the Stanford School of Medicine Visiting Graduate Students •Bushra Fazal Minhas - Visiting Ph.D Candidate (Summer 2014 - Fall 2014)
Part-time Laboratory Technician •Andrew Jang - Lab Manager (Spring 2014 - Spring 2015) •Rama Sravani- Bioinformatics (Fall 2018- Winter 2020)
Undergraduate Researchers •Bharat Rai-(Winter 2020-Spring 2020), B.S. in biology at University of California, Riverside; Spring 2020. Now attending University of Southern California, graduate school for bioinformatics. •Sean Ho- (Winter 2019-Fall 2019), B.S. in biology at University of California, Riverside; Spring 2020 •Claire Davis- (Winter 2019-Spring 2020), graduated with B.S. in biology at University of California, Riverside; Spring 2020. Now attending UC San Diego, pharmacy school. •Nick Malkus- (Summer 2018-Winter 2020), graduated with B.S. in biology, University honors program at University of California, Riverside; Spring 2020 •Eliza Martinez- (Summer 2018-Winter 2020), graduated with B.S. in biology at University of California, Riverside; Spring 2020 •Shardae Carter (Fall 2018- Winter 2019), B.S. in biology at University of California •Emily Fan (Fall 2018-Spring 2019), B.S. in biology at University of California •Tonny Paul- (Winter 2018-Spring 2018), graduated with B.S. in biology at University of California, Riverside; Fall 2019- accepted to the graduate in nursing program at John Hopkins University. ---Undergrads in laboratory at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana--- •Brendan Jamison-(Spring 2017 – Fall 2017)- Spring 2019-B.S. in honors biology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Fall 2019- Lab Tech at University of Chicago, IL. •Claire Dust-(Spring 2017 – Fall 2017)- finishing her B.S. in honors biology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign •Henry Rothenberg-(Spring 2017 – Fall 2017)- finishing his B.S. in honors biology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Accepted into the graduate program for Education at University of Wisconsin, Madison. •Eric Lamoutte-(Spring 2017 – Fall 2017)- finishing his B.S. in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign •Alex Riley- (Spring 2016 – Fall 2017)- B.S. in honors biology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Masters in Plant Biology at UIUC; Biology teacher. •Isabel H. Skidmore-(Spring 2016 – Fall 2017)- Spring 2018-B.S. in honors biology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 2018- 2019-Lab tech at UIUC. Fall 2019, started Bioinformatics programing position at WolframAlpha. •Siyuan (Lily) Cheng- (Fall 2015 – Spring 2017)- received 'high distinction' for her undergraduate thesis project in the School of Integrative Biology. Accepted to the Ph.D. graduate program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Yale University •Philip Cannizzaro- Undergraduate Researcher (Spring & Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Summer 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016)- received 'highest distinction' for his undergraduate thesis project in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology. accepted to UIC College of Dentistry - University of Illinois at Chicago •Yihui Zhu - Undergraduate Researcher (Spring 2014) - Ph.D at UC Davis, Genomics and Informatics, accepted position at 10x Genomics as an Applied Bioinformatics Scientist on single cell genomics •Victoria Wong - Undergraduate Researcher (Fall 2013 & Spring 2014) - accepted to the graduate program at Virginia Tech •Thor Hansen - Undergraduate Researcher (Fall 2013 - Spring 2015) - accepted to the Ph.D. graduate program at Purdue University, received M.S. at University of Kentucky Josh Newman - Undergraduate Researcher (Fall 2014 & Spring 2015) - searching for a position as a bioinformatics lab tech •Amy Kmak - Visiting Undergraduate Researcher (Summer 2015) •Izailda Barbosa Dos Santos - Visiting International Undergraduate Researcher (Summer 2015) •Eun Ji Jeong - Undergraduate Researcher (Fall 2015) - Sophomore in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign •Aejin Shon - Undergraduate Researcher (Fall 2015) - Sophomore in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign