People

Click on each lab member’s picture to learn more about them!

Jamie Lloyd-Smith

Principal Investigator

jlloydsmith@ucla.edu

Katie Prager

Research Scientist

kcprager@ucla.edu

Dave Daversa

La Kretz Postdoctoral Fellow

ddaversa@ioes.ucla.edu

Santiago Cardenas

Biomathematics PhD student

scardenas1@g.ucla.edu

Erika Ono-Kerns

EEB MS student

eonokerns@ucla.edu

Kristie Schott

EEB PhD student

kcschott@ucla.edu

Lab Alumni

Ana Gomez (now working as a Lecturer in Quantitative Ecology at the Serrapilheira Institute, Brazil)
Dylan Morris (now working as as Prediction Lead, Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, CDC)
Amandine Gamble (now an Assistant Professor at Cornell University)
Angela Guglielmino (now working as a Wildlife Biologist in Southern California)
Sarah Helman (now working as a Science Teacher at the Rashi School)
Celine Snedden (now a researcher at UCLA)
Elizabeth Blackmore (now a PhD student at Yale University)
Philip Lee (now a PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Caitlin Cox (now a PhD student at Arizona State University)
Riley Mummah (now Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow at US Geological S
Amanda Tokuyama (now working as GIS & Field Data Manager for the Urban Ecology Center)
Christian Mason (now working as West LA Field Manager for Professor Egghead (K-8 education))
Carlie Leary (now working as Climate Smart Communities Coordinator for the Adirondack North Country Association)
Oshiomah Oyageshio (now a PhD Student with Brenna Henn at Univerisity of California Davis)
Katie Gostic (now working as Data Science Lead, Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, CDC)
Lei Dai (now a Professor in the Institute of Synthetic Biology at Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Monique Ambrose (now a Research Scientist at the Institute for Disease Modeling)
Miran Park (now working as a software engineer)
Michael Buhnerkempe (now a Research Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine)
Claude Loverdo (now a Research Director at the CNRS in Paris)
Ruian Ke (now Staff Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Philip Bulterys (now Chief Resident in Clinical Pathology at Stanford Medical School)
Seth Blumberg (Associate Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco)
Chris Strelioff (now doing research at University of California, Davis)
Juliet Pulliam (now Director of the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA))
Jessica Kasamoto (Bruins in Genomic Summer Program, now a Graduate Student at Columbia University
Natashia Benjamin (Bruins in Genomic Summer Program, now a Graduate Student at Penn State University)