DRUBIN/BARNES LAB - Key Persons
I'm from the Central Valley in California. Currently, I am a freshman undergraduate student at UC Berkeley looking to major in Molecular and Cell Biology with an emphasis in genetics. In my free time, I like to play chess and try out new restaurants around Berkeley.
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- Staff Scientist, University of Sheffield, UK
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- Director, Biology, IDEAYA Biosciences
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I have a master in reproductive physiology from the University of Algeria, an associate degree in biotechnology from Berkeley City College. Currently, I'm a CIRM intern at UC Berkeley in the Molecular and Cell Biology department. Under the mentorship of Sam Smith and Leanna Owen, I'm studying how HIP1 and HIP1R participate in mammalian endocytosis using CRISPR-Cas9 genome-edited in hiPSC. In my free time I enjoy doing yoga, cooking, and hiking.
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- Head, Discovery Genome Editing, GSK
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- Research Investigator, Synthetic Biology at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Postdoctoral Scholar
Feng obtained his bachelor's and master's degree in Materials Science and
Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He then performed his
doctoral study in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University
of Texas at Austin, where he was supervised by Dr. Jeanne Stachowiak to
study the biophysical mechanisms of membrane remodeling driven by
intrinsically disordered proteins. During his PhD, he discovered the ability of
protein condensates to drive concave bending of lipid membranes. He also
demonstrated the role of ubiquitin in catalyzing endocytosis. As a postdoc,
he is currently exploring the role of protein condensates in clathrin-mediated
endocytosis. Outside of the lab, he likes hiking and playing badminton.
email: feng.yuan@berkeley.edu
I am from Ontario, CA, and I'm currently a first year undergraduate student studying Bioengineering and (intended) Computer Science. Working with my mentor Yidi, I am studying protein interactions in yeast clathrin-mediated endocytosis. I'm excited about biology research and hope to continue research after graduation in graduate school or industry. Outside of school, I enjoy video games and making cover songs.
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- Global Director, Digital Health - Saffron Cognitive Group - Digital Health, Intel Corporation
I'm from Monterey Bay, CA and I help Jonathan study kinetochore dynamics on microtubules using budding yeast, with some lab-managing on the side. I love all things biology, cooking (except when I have to), and art.
Hang, a joint visiting scholar in the lab of Holger Müller, obtained his graduate degree from the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University, where he was supervised by Prof. Hong-Wei Wang. His doctoral research centered on examining the hDicer-related complex's structure using the single particle method and developing multi-affinity graphene grids to prepare complex cryo-samples. Currently, Hang's focus lies in applying the Laser Phase Plate (LPP) in conjunction with other Cryo-Electron Tomography techniques to conduct in-situ studies on endocytosis at the cellular and mechanistic levels.
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- Research Associate, Cell Line Engineering at Eikon Therapeutics
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Jennifer is an MCB graduate student studying clathrin-mediated endocytosis using the budding yeast S. cerevisiae as a model organism.
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- Research Group Leader, Research Institute of the FSU Jena / Institute for Biochemistry I, Germany Link
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- Associate Professor, Hokkaido University Hokudai Institute for Genetic Medicine
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- Institute Director, University of Helsinki, Finland, Link
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- Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
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- Group Leader, CNRS, Paris, France
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- Admissions Coordinator, University of British Columbia
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- Assistant Professor, St. Norbert College, Link
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- Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Link
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I grew up in Liaoning, China and am currently a MCB undergraduate at Berkeley. I plan to do a double major in Applied Math. I work with Jennifer on modeling the clathrin-mediated endocytosis of yeast. I am considering graduate school because I want to be a biomedical researcher. I love singing and eating.
I'm from Torrance, California and I am a current undergrad at UC Berkeley studying Molecular and Cellular Biology. Under the mentorship of Sam, I will be studying fast endophilin mediated endocytosis. My plan after graduation to attend graduate school. In my free time I enjoy spending the day at the beach, hiking, and painting.
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Nikhil grew up in San Jose, California and is currently an undergraduate at UC Berkeley studying Molecular and Cell Biology. Working with his mentor, Max, Nikhil is studying liquid-like protein interactions in endocytosis. After graduation, he plans to attend medical school. In his free time, Nikhil enjoys playing poker and keeping active.
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- Group Leader, CNRS, Marseille, France
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- Research Assistant Professor, Dept. Oncological Sciences, Co - Director Bioinformatics Shared Resource, Huntsman Cancer Institute and the University of Utah, Link
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- Principal Scientist at Altos Labs
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- Postdoctoral Associate, Carnegie Institution for Science
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- Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Chemistry & Biochemistry, UC San Diego, Link
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- Research Scientist, Gilead Sciences
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- Group Leader, IST, Austria, Link
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- Communications Consultant, Oxford PharmaGenesis
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- Scientist, Calico Life Sciences
I am from Shanghai, and I am currently an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley studying Molecular and Cell Biology and Business Administration (LSBE). Under the mentorship of Leanna and Sam, I am studying the expression of HIP1 gene in yeast. My current plan after graduation is going to graduate school. When I'm not doing work, I love working out at RSF, cooking, and singing.
Thomas Pollard graduated from Pomona College in 1964 with honors in Chemistry and Zoology. At Harvard Medical School he began to investigate cellular motility. After a medical internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, three years as a Staff Associate at the National Institutes of Health provided training biochemistry. As a faculty member at Harvard Medical School (1972-1978), Johns Hopkins Medical School (1978-1996), Salk Institute (1996-2001) and Yale University (2001-2021), his research group focused on the molecular basis of cellular motility and cytokinesis.
His laboratory discovered and characterized proteins that produce forces for cells to move including the first unconventional myosin (myosin-I), Arp2/3 complex and capping protein, all originally isolated from Acanthamoeba. They combined microscopy, biochemistry, biophysics, molecular biology and mathematical modeling to provide the quantitative evidence required to formulate and test a detailed molecular explanation for how Arp2/3 complex stimulates the assembly of branched actin filaments that produce forces for cellular movements and endocytosis. They combined quantitative measurements of the time course of the appearance and disappearance of the participating proteins at site of endocytosis in fission yeast with mathematical modeling to confirm the molecular details and physics of the force-producing process.
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- Biological Data Scientist II, Eikon Therapeutics
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- Research Specialist, University of California, Berkeley
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- Scientist I, Allen Institute for Cell Science, Link
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- Researcher, Tohoku University, Japan
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- Staff Scientist, University of Washington
Yui is a MCB graduate student and is also a joint student in the lab of Jim Hurley.