DOUDNA LAB - Key Persons
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- Senior Manager, Technology Development at Guardant Health
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- Founding Scientist, Azalea Therapeutics
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- Resident, Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Radiology
Alana is an undergraduate at UC Berkeley ('25) studying Molecular and Cell Biology with an intended emphasis in Genetics, Genomics, and Development. She grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives in Taiwan, but the Bay Area is her favorite place to live so far.
Hello! My name is Alex Tong and I'm an undergraduate student studying chemistry in a premed-PhD track. I enjoy snowboarding, playing volleyball, and rock climbing!
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- Asset Acquisitions Associate, BridgeBio
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- Science Media Communications Innovative Genomics Institute
Amanda is a postdoctoral scholar working jointly with the Rubin and Doudna lab on the BiomeForge project to develop and apply microbiome editing tools in environmentally relevant microbial communities. As a joint PhD student at San Diego State University and the University of California San Diego, Amanda established genetic tractability in several environmental isolates of marine bacteria important for symbiosis. She is now applying microbial community editing techniques to lignin degrading bacterial communities with support from JBEI. Furthermore, she aims to improve the maintenance and enrichment of successfully edited microbes in this system by establishing methods for positive metabolic selection.
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- Assistant Professor, Mount Holyhoke College
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- Staff Scientist, Health Program National Resources Defense Council
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- Bioscience Sales Specialist for Nikon, Inc
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- Lead Scientist, MaxGene Bioscience
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- Research Scientist, Inari Agriculture
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- Senior Scientist, Evercrisp Bioscience
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- Scientist, Spotlight Therapeutics
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- Project Scientist, Berkeley Lab
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- Assistant Professor, Montana State University
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- Principal Investigator, Rubin Lab, UC Berkeley
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- Co - Founder, Scribe Therapeutics
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- President / CEO, Caribou Biosciences
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- Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
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- Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Staff Research Investigator, Gladstone Institutes
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- Co - Founder & CEO, Algen Biotechnologies
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- CEO / CSO, Azalea Therapeutics
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- Principal Scientist, Merck & Co., Inc
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- Principal Beamline Scientist
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- Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
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- Owner and Proprietor, MadeWithMolecules.Com
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- Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin
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- Senior Associate in Venture Investments, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
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- Postdoc. Research Assoc., R. Stevens Lab, Scripps Research Institute
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- Investigator, Monash University
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- Assistant Professor, University of Southern Alabama
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- Principal Investigator, Wilson Lab, UC Berkeley
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- Communications Manager Innovative Genomics Institute
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- Co - Founder, Mammoth Biosciences
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- Fellow at the Gladstone Institutes
Jason is a postdoctoral fellow at the Gladstone Institutes studying SARS-CoV-2 proteins and protein structures. He received his PhD in virology at Harvard, where he studied tumor microbiomes and viral transcriptomes in the labs of James DeCaprio and Matthew Meyerson.
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- Research Director, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Principal Investigator
- Li Ka Shing Chancellor 's Professor of Biomedical Science
- Member of the Departments of Molecular
Dr. Jennifer Doudna is a member of the departments of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry at UC Berkeley, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, along with the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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- Service Architect, Hitachi Consulting
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- CEO / Co - Founder at Catena Biosciences
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- Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University
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- Assistant Professor, Seoul National University
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- Instructor, Diablo Valley College
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- Associate Professor, the Scripps Research Institute
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- Operations Manager
- Lab Coordinator
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- Director of Marketing Azure Biosystems, Inc
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- Associate Professor, UC Irvine
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- Associate Professor, Cornell University
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- Quality Engineer II, Lifecell
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- Scientist, Scribe Therapeutics
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- Project Scientist, Berkeley Lab
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- Assistant Professor, Columbia University
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- Clinical Fellow in Allergy and Immunology at University of California
- Pediatric Scientist Development Program Fellow Joint With Jennifer Puck at UCSF
Matt is a clinical fellow in allergy and immunology at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He has been studying the immune system since he was an undergraduate at Harvard University, where he worked on the role of NKT cells in asthma with Dale Umetsu. He received his MD and PhD in immunology at Duke University in the labs of Carol Colton and Michael Dee Gunn, where he identified a novel immune-mediated mechanism in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease that is being explored in a clinical trial. Matt studied computational immunology during a postdoctoral fellowship with Atul Butte at UCSF and completed his residency training in pediatrics at UCSF. His clinical focus is on inborn errors in immunity and he is designing CRISPR/Cas-based gene therapy for patients with primary immune deficiencies.
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- Data Scientist Forsite Capital
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- Global Director of Customer Success, LinkedIn Learning
As a senior research scientist, I have extensive biological research experiences in molecular and cellular biology in plants, E. coli, yeasts, viruses, mammalian, and human diseases such as autoimmune, glaucoma and hyperbilirubinemia. This has increased my ability to perform many different types of research approaches. With this vast experience, I have joined Dr. Doudna's lab as a project scientist in order to accomplish my career goal that is to contribute my experience to improve gene therapy through gene editing such as CRISPR-CAS9.
In this lab, I will focus on the in vivo CRISPR-CAS system by which we will figure out how to deliver our gene therapy complex to tissues/organs, specifically and precisely.
In addition, I have realized that people working together is most important. So I have a motto ‘work together, make together' is the best way to move forward and make good progress. Furthermore, I always keep in mind for work progress ‘Let it happen? Make it happen!
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- Assistant Professor, UCSF
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- Assistant Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Zurich
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- Process Development Scientist, Grifols Therapeutics
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- Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Kranzusch Lab
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- Staff Scientist, Bio - Rad Laboratories
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- Investigator, Vilnius University
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- Scientist, Global Blood Therapeutics
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- Technician
- Research Associate in Doudna 's Lab
Rania as a Research Associate in Doudna's Lab is thrilled to be working on genome editing technologies. She has received her Master of Biotechnology degree from California State University, Fresno, CA and has seven years of Molecular Biology experience in academia, R&D industry, and clinical laboratory settings. In this position, Rania will have the opportunity to improve the delivery of CRISPR-CAS system in vivo as a gene therapy to tissues and organs
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- Senior Scientist, Baxalta, Inc
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- Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
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- Scientist - Process Development - Attribute Sciences Amgen, Yale U
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- Postdoctoral Fellow, Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney
Ron is a Biophysics PhD student in the Doudna Lab, interested in computation and biology. Previously, Ron was a research scientist at GoogleX, where he led projects and research spanning life sciences, machine learning, and quantum computing. He helped build the machine learning team at System1 Biosciences, leading the analysis of multi-omics and imaging datasets to identify phenotypes of neuropsychiatric diseases in cerebral organoids. He earned his BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, where he conducted machine learning research as part of the VisionLab and started the nonprofit MedHacks.
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- Assistant Research Fellow, Academica Sinica
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- Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry
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- Deputy Director at Biophysical Collaborative Access Team ( BioCAT ) - APS / Illinois Institute of Technology
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- Scientist Arrakis Therapeutics
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- Assistant Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
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- Assistant Professor, Tel Aviv University
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- Assistant Professor, ShanghaiTech
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- Scientist, Spotlight Therapeutics
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- Principal Investigator, Cress Lab, UC Berkeley
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ( NSERC )
Wayne is a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences studying the targeting of CRISPR-Cas delivery vehicles. He aims to deliver CRISPR-Cas systems to specific tissues for therapeutic applications. Wayne received his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at the University of Toronto, where he studied the delivery of nanoparticles to solid tumors with Prof. Warren Chan.