People

Principal Investigator

Naoki Yamanaka, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: 04/2014 - 06/2020
Associate Professor: 07/2020 -

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 -

Nagham Melhem
Graduate Student
08/2022 -

Rebekah Kim
Undergraduate / Lab Assistant
02/2022 -

Ava Ham
Undergraduate
04/2022 -

Aman Kaur
Lab Assistant
10/2021 -

Previous Members

Yuya Ohhara
Postdoc
09/2014 - 09/2015
(Left the lab as an Assistant Professor at the University of Shizuoka, Japan)

Crystal Pontrello
Assistant Project Scientist
07/2016 - 08/2016
(Left the lab for the Haga-Yamanaka lab at UC Riverside)

Roilea Maxson
Undergraduate / Lab Assistant
01/2017 - 09/2018
(Left the lab as a technician and then as a graduate student at UC Davis)

Vivian Phan
Undergraduate
11/2018 - 05/2019

Ruoying Lu
Graduate Student
10/2014 - 09/2019
(Successfully defended her thesis and left for a biotech company)

Lisa Faraee
Undergraduate / Lab Assistant
07/2017 - 10/2019

Cebrina Nolan
Lab Assistant
07/2019 - 12/2019
(Left the lab as a Fulbright Scholar in Brisbane, Australia)

Naoki Okamoto
Assistant Project Scientist
09/2015 - 03/2020
(Left the lab as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Corinne Karalun
Undergraduate
07/2019 - 03/2020

Riyan Bittar
Undergraduate / Lab Assistant
09/2015 - 06/2020
(Left the lab for a medical school)

Mikkal Blick
Graduate Student
04/2015 - 06/2020
(Successfully defended his thesis and left for a life science company)

Hannah Chu
Graduate Student
07/2019 - 09/2021
(Left the lab for the Murillo lab at UC Riverside Entomology)

Amritbir Kaur
Lab Assistant
09/2019 - 10/2021
(Left the lab for a nanotechnology company)

Lewis Hun
Postdoc
07/2018 - 01/2022
(Left the lab as a Vector Control Ecologist in the County of Santa Clara)

Gabriella Moussa
Undergraduate / Lab Assistant
02/2019 - 09/2022