{"id":15,"date":"2019-04-11T10:43:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T17:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/mcdb-shah\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:44:34","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/mcdb-shah\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lab Members<\/strong><\/span>
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

Pavak K Shah, PhD
\nAssociate Professor
\nMolecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
\nInstitute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences
\nBrain Research Institute
\nMolecular Biology Institute
\npavak (at) ucla.edu
\nTLSB 5000C<\/p>\n

Graduate Students:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"
\nRyan Johnson
\nPhD Molecular Biology, CDB<\/p>\n

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\nNeil Peinado
\nPhD Molecular Biology, IMMP<\/p>\n

\"\"
\nClover Stubbert
\nPhD Molecular Biology, CDB<\/p>\n

\"\"
\nMarvin Onwukwe
\nPhD BMSB, Co-Mentored by Danielle Schmitt<\/p>\n

Undergraduate Students:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nReza Hemmati
\nUndergraduate Researcher
\nCaSB, Biomedical Research Minor<\/p>\n

Lab Alumni<\/p>\n

Sofia Foondos, Undergraduate Researcher and Technician
\nCurrently: University of Arizona College of Medicine<\/p>\n

Gunalan Natesan, CaSB Undergraduate and Bioinformatics MS
\nCurrently:\u00a0 PhD Yale Computational and Systems Biology<\/p>\n

Matthew Waliman, MS Electrical and Computer Engineering
\nCurrently: Bobyard Inc.<\/p>\n

Aihui Wang, BMSB Rotation Student<\/p>\n

Yesica Mercado-Ayon, CDB Rotation Student
\nCurrently:\u00a0 Samantha Butler Lab, UCLA<\/p>\n

Emily Peluso, IMMP Rotation Student
\nCurrently: Tom Vallim Lab, UCLA<\/p>\n

Jessenya Mil, CDB Rotation Student
\nCurrently: Aparna Badhuri Lab, UCLA<\/p>\n

Claudia Nguyen, NSIDP Rotation Student
\nCurrently: Aparna Badhuri Lab, UCLA<\/p>\n

Damia Gonzalez Akimori, CDB Rotation Student
\nCurrently: Elissa Hallem Lab, UCLA<\/p>\n

Leopoldo Bello-Luna, Lab Manager
\nCurrently: MD Medical College of Wisconsin<\/p>\n

Dimitri Speron, MCDB Undergraduate
\nCurrently: MD Feinburg School of Medicine- Northwestern University<\/p>\n

Noelle Wheeler, CASB Undergradute
\nCurrently: MS Computational Biology at Weill Cornell Medicine<\/p>\n

Bernice Thambiraja, MCDB Undergraduate<\/p>\n

Shiqin Tan, CASB Undergraduate
\nCurrently: MS Biomedical Imaging at Weill Cornell Medicine<\/p>\n

Farhan Muhammad, Biophysics Undergraduate
\nCurrently: MD University of Cincinnati College of Medicine<\/p>\n

Julianna Filice, Biology Undergraduate<\/p>\n

Vinita Saxena, MCDB Undergraduate
\nCurrently: MPH Emory University<\/p>\n

Rohit Ghosh, CASB Undergraduate
\nCurrently: Postbac with Steven Reilly, Yale Genetics<\/p>\n

Christopher Avalos, Lab Assistant
\nCurrently: PhD Harvard BBS<\/p>\n

Julia Miller, NSIDP Rotation Student
\nCurrently: Orkun Akin Lab, UCLA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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