Current members:

Upasna Sharma, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

upsharma@ucsc.edu

   Andrew Holmes, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

holmes@soe.ucsc.edu

Alka Gupta, Ph.D.

Postdoc, CIRM Fellow

agupt112@ucsc.edu

Simeiyun (May) Liu

Graduate Student

sliu87@ucsc.edu

Joshua Shaffer

Graduate Student

jfshaffe@ucsc.edu

Julian Swartz

  Junior Specialist

jrswartz@ucsc.edu

Phoebe Kwee

NIH PREP Scholar

pkwee@ucsc.edu

Hannah Wang

Undergraduate Student

halewang@ucsc.edu

Lucas Nguyen

Undergraduate Student

luqnguye@ucsc.edu

Past members:

Ron Barulich, Junior Specialist

Srikar Bevara, Undergraduate Student

Steven Liang, Rotation Student

Angela Deguzman, Rotation Student

Jennifer Gonzales, ACCESS Program Scholar

Edgardo Linares, Assistant Specialist

Angelina Prakash, Undergraduate Student

Hawas Kaderi, Undergraduate Student

Erick Quintana Vazquez, Rotation Student,

Michael Sharma, Rotation Student

Raana Mogharrab, Rotation Student

Alexander Neubauer, Undergraduate Student

Alessandra Rodriguez, Rotation student

Arisbeth Jaramillo, Undergraduate Student

Sydney Fregoso, Undergraduate Student

Nigina Khamidova, Undergraduate Student

Elvira Antonia Contreras, NIH-PREP Scholar 

Ava Burr, Undergraduate Student

Geetika Kharkwal, Associate Specialist

Urvi Vyas, Undergraduate student

Brandon Chew, Undergraduate student

Tiffany Thisner, Rotation Student

Sarah Lanning, Rotation Student

Andrew Olander, Rotation Student

Diana Escalona, Rotation Student

Catherine Palmer, Rotation Student

We are hiring! 

Postdocs – We are looking for enthusiastic and talented postdocs. If you’re interested, please email Upasna Sharma your CV, a statement of research interests, and contact information for three references.

Research Associates – We are looking for motivated research associates to join our team. If you’re interested, please email Upasna Sharma your CV and contact information for three references or directly apply here.

Graduate Students – We welcome rotation students within UCSC; email Upasna Sharma if interested. Prospective graduate students should apply to a bio-related program through UCSC here.