Honors 2009 Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists 2012 NIH Pathway to Independence Award 2017 Pew Biomedical Scholar 2018 NIH Director's New Innovator Award 2022 JSPS Prize 2022 Japan Academy Medal
Our Team
Daiki Fujinaga Postdoc 03/2020 -
Eisuke Imura Postdoc 07/2020 -
Mitchell Masterson Postdoc 03/2023 -
Sally Ireri Postdoc 11/2023 -
Nagham Melhem Graduate Student 08/2022 -
Kevin Dinh Lab Assistant 07/2023 -
Jay Chang Undergraduate 10/2023 -
Previous Members
Project Scientists
Naoki Okamoto (09/2015 - 03/2020): Left the lab as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tsukuba, Japan
Crystal Pontrello(07/2016 - 08/2016): Left the lab for the Haga-Yamanaka lab at UC Riverside
Postdocs
Yuya Ohhara (09/2014 - 09/2015): Left the lab as an Assistant Professor at the University of Shizuoka, Japan
Lewis Hun (07/2018 - 01/2022): Left the lab as a Vector Control Ecologist in the County of Santa Clara
Graduate Students
Ruoying Lu(10/2014 - 09/2019): Successfully defended her thesis and left for a biotech company
Mikkal Blick (04/2015 - 06/2020): Successfully defended his thesis and left for a life science company
Hannah Chu(07/2019 - 09/2021): Left the lab for the Murillo lab at UC Riverside Entomology
Lab Assistants
Riyan Bittar(09/2015 - 06/2020): Left the lab for a medical school
Roilea Maxson (01/2017 - 09/2018): Left the lab for a graduate program at UC Davis
Lisa Faraee (07/2017 - 10/2019)
Gabriella Moussa (02/2019 - 09/2022)
Cebrina Nolan(07/2019 - 12/2019): Left the lab as a Fulbright Scholar in Brisbane, Australia
Amritbir Kaur(09/2019 - 10/2021): Left the lab for a nanotechnology company
Aman Kaur(10/2021 - 05/2023)
Rebekah Kim(02/2022 - 08/2023): Left the lab for a graduate program at Columbia University