Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Carlos Portera-Cailliau, MD,PhD

Principal Investigator

Current Members

Nazim Kourdougli, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Anand Suresh, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Irma A. Tello García, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Carlos A. Sánchez-León, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Michelle Wu

Graduate Student

Jaylin Hsu

Undergraduate

Lauren Wall

Undergraduate

Akash Khotari

Undergraduate

Nicole Ershaghi

Undergraduate

Katarina Povinec

Undergraduate

Alumni

David Song

Undergraduate

Madison Dietz

Undergraduate Student

Trishala Chari

Graduate Student

Zoe Dobler

Graduate Student

Ariana Hernandez

Undergraduate Student

Sunny Mula

Undergraduate Student

Ashley Lin

Undergraduate Student

Jorge Salcedo

Medical Student

Ritu Gaikwad

Undergraduate Student

Isha Jagadish

High School Student

David Chung

Undergraduate Student

Anne Tran

Undergraduate Student

Bo Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Natalie Noble

Undergraduate Student

Isa Samad

Undergraduate Student

Sandhya Murugan

Undergraduate Student

William Zeiger

Postdoctoral Fellow

Brandon Nanfito

Undergraduate Student

Carla Marin

Undergraduate Student

Chloe Dupuis

Visiting Graduate Student

Nasir Ahmed

Undergraduate Student

Barbara Todisco

Undergraduate Student

Cindy Chen

Undergraduate Student

Anubhuti Goel

Postdoctoral Fellow

Daniel Cantu

Graduate Student

Michael Le

Undergraduate Student

Gunvant Chaudhari

Undergraduate Student

Erica Arroyo, PhD

Graduate Student

Anouk Heuvelmans

Masters Student

Sheyda Mesgarzadeh

Undergraduate Student

Aditi Newadkar

Undergraduate Student

Satvir Saggi

Undergraduate Student

Diego De Alba

Undergraduate Student

Gengming Liu

Undergraduate Student

Cynthia He, PhD

MSTP Student

Mate Marosi, PhD

Post-Doc

Steve Cohen

Undergraduate Student

Shilpa Mantri

Undergraduate Student (Summer intern)

Peter Pellionisz

Biomedical Engineer

Mona Chatrizeh

Undergraduate Student

Steve Hernandez

Undergraduate Student

Kaela Cohen

Undergraduate Student

Grant Higerd

Undergraduate Student

Amaya Miquelajauregui, PhD

Post-Doc

Sahana Kribakaran

Undergraduate Student

Catherine Yunis

Undergraduate Student

Daniel Cantu

Graduate Student

Annasha Vyas

Undergraduate Student

Claire Huang

High school Student (Summer intern)

Ricardo Rosales

Undergraduate Student

Lauren Wierenga

Undergraduate Student (Amgen Scholar)

Ricardo Mostany, PhD

Post-doc

Luis Garza

Undergraduate Student

David Johnston

Graduate Student

J. Tiago Goncalves, PhD

Post-Doc

Seanna Martin

Grad student on collaboration

Natalia Orlova

Engineer

Phuc Hoang

Graduate Student on extended rotation

Kerensa Crump

Undergraduate Student from SUNY Bighamton (Amgen Scholar)

James Anstey, MD

Lab Manager

Adrian Cheng

Post-Doc

Georgeann Sack (formerly O'Brien)

Graduate Student on collaboration

Jessica Jimenez

Undergraduate Researcher (also Amgen Scholar)

Kevin McEvoy

Graduate Student

Alberto Cruz-Martin, PhD

Post-Doc

Michelle Crespo

Undergraduate Researcher (also Amgen Scholar)

Tara Chowdhury

Lab Manager

Sattar Khoshkhoo

Undergraduate Researcher (also Amgen Scholar)

Jean-François Léger, PhD

Visiting Scientist

Peyman Golshani, MD-PhD

Post-Doc

Stelios Smirnakis, MD-PhD

Visiting Scientist

Abinav Baweja

Undergraduate Researcher

Rossen Badakov

Visiting Masters Student

Shiva Portonovo

Lab Technician

Name	Years in Lab	Current Position