Category: Fellows
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Gali Bai: QB3 Fellows 2025
QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Innovators My research focuses on developing innovative methods to map chromatin accessibility using nanopore long-read sequencing with the ultimate goal of better understanding how epigenetic changes impact RNA processing. In Brooks lab, we designed an end-to-end platform combining Add-seq, a novel method for chromatin accessibility profiling, and NEMO, a deep learning…
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Radcliff Huffman: QB3 Fellows 2025
QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Innovators I’m utilizing methods in synthetic chemistry and marine algal enzymology to make new chemical tools to study glutamate receptors within the mammalian brain. The specific family of neuronal receptors I’m targeting are implicated in a wide range of biomedical phenomena from addiction, pain, and neurodegeneration to learning, memory, and synaptic…
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Viktor Yurevych: QB3 Fellows 2025
QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Innovators I investigate the intricate molecular processes underlying human brain development, particularly focusing on the role of extracellular RNA (exRNA) in early corticogenesis. I utilize human cortical organoids, 3D cell models that mimic the developing brain, to study how exRNA, secreted from cells within vesicles, can act as a signal, conveying…
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Taylor Won: Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024
Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Excellence I am doing rotations in the Fall and Winter quarters. In my first rotation, I worked in Dr. Benedict Paten’s lab to assess the performance of a genome assembly polish tool for the pangenome project. I’m doing my second rotation in Dr. Russell Corbett-Detig’s lab on…
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Helio Ramollari: Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024
Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Excellence This fellowship is supporting me in exploring different projects in the Applied Optics Group, Schmidt Lab and expanding my multidisciplinary research skills. Currently, I am focusing on the fabrication, characterization, and integration of nanophotonic and optofluidic devices with applications in biosensors.
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Jackson Calhoun: Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024
Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Excellence I have been a rotation student on the CB3 track for my fellowship year. I have been fortunate to work with the McKinnie and Lokey labs thus far. In the McKinnie Lab I probed the substrate preference and activity of a PLP-dependent enzyme. My work led…
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Tyler Liban: Senior Scientist
Lab / Organization: Gensun Biopharma For my fellowship, I worked in Dr. Seth Rubin’s lab, exploring the relationship between a family of tumor suppressor proteins and DNA transcription factors and how the interaction between these proteins plays into cell cycle control and tumorigenesis. Dr. Rubin’s Lab was a great learning environment with talented people, and…
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Rachel Doran: Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist
Lab / Organization: Cepheid I investigated how viral envelope protein glycosylation variances introduced by in vitro expression systems commonly used for commercial vaccine development affect vaccine antigen immunogenicity and antigenicity during my fellowship year. Now, I work on development of in vitro diagnostic tests for infectious disease, which I am thrilled to be working in.…
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Brandon Rice: Director, Platform Management
Lab / Organization: Resilience I spent my fellowship research year studying Neanderthal variation in modern humans. Neanderthals and human populations interbred during a period of human evolution, which introduced Neanderthal-derived mutations into human genomes. These variants are still kicking around in human populations today. My research was aimed at identifying those Neanderthal variants that have…
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Gopikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena: Photonics Research Scientist
Lab / Organization: Ultra Low Loss Technologies During the QB3 Fellowship year I was working on designing and testing Optofluidic biosensor devices which uses multi-mode interference photonic waveguides for multiplexed diagnostics applications. The fellowship funded my research, paid tuition fee and helped me buy essential text books & lab supplies. My current research is on…
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Jeff Nivala: Research Assistant Professor
Lab / Organization: Molecular Informatio Systems Lab, University of Washington During my fellowship year, I worked on developing nanopore technology for single-molecule protein sequencing. My research borrows from nature to build better computing systems. I want to make molecular computing useful in the real world.
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Miles Duncan: Senior Scientist
Lab / Organization: Tessera Therapeutics My fellowship research focused on the bacterial type three secretion system (T3SS), a needle-like apparatus used by dozens of bacterial pathogens to cause disease. I developed and carried out a high throughput screen for chemicals that block the T3SS, leading to my discovery of the small molecule inhibitors known as…