People

 

Principal Investigator

 
Jim Wells, PhD
[email protected]
1-415-514-4498
Interests: guitar, tennis, skiing, biking, hiking
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Administrative Staff

 
Ninwe Maraha, PhD
Lab Manager
PhD from Karolinska Institute
[email protected]
1-415-502-6464
Interests: reading, music, long walks
Maraha
 
Alyssa Lam
Administrative Assistant
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Interests: Cooking, movies, dancing, K-pop
 

Assistant Professor

 

Brandon Holmes, MD, PhD

MD/PhD from Washington University in Saint Louis

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Project: Cell Surface Proteins in Neuroinflammation

Interests: drumming, live music, skateboarding, hiking, eating tacos

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

 

Ines Folger, PhD 

PhD from ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

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Interests: Baking, Cooking, Mountainbiking, Hiking, Skiing

 

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Zhi "Lindsey" Lin, PhD

PhD from Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

BS from Peking University

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Interests: food, boba, concerts, cooking, watercolor, manga and anime

Wells lab Lindsey Lin
 

Johnathan Maza, PhD

PhD from University of California, Berkeley

[email protected]

Project: cell surface proteolysis

Interests: Reading sci-fi/fantasy, making pasta, and walking my cats

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Kun Miao, PhD

PhD from Caltech 

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Project: domain libraries for antibody engineering

Interests: watching sports, playing basketball, karaoke

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Trenton Peters-Clarke, PhD 

PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison 

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Project: cell surface proteomics

Interests: running, biking, frisbee with my dog, basketball

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Angel Vázquez-Maldonado


PhD from University of California, Berkeley

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Interests: reading, painting, music, photography

 

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Zi Yao, PhD

PhD from University of California, Irvine

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Project: Immunopeptidomics

Interests: Soccer, eating, spending time with friends

 

Fangzhu Zhao, PhD

PhD from Scripps Research Institute

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Project: Antibody discovery and engineering against tumor-associated antigens

Interests: Music, traveling, cat, ping pong

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Graduate Students

Paul Burroughs

B.S. Chemical Biology, University of California, Berkeley

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Project: Explore previously hidden cell surface protein interactomes in immunology using DET labeling

Interests: Oncology, immunology, translational medicine, startups, history, weightlifting, cycling, health & fitness

Wells lab Paul
 

Yifei Chen

BS in Condensed Matter Physics from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

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Project: Using proximity labeling mass spec to explore the diverse states of HER2's neighbors in Breast Cancer

Interests: Membrane Protein, running, astrophotography, cats, outdoors

 

William Ho

AB from Harvard University 

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Project: Shed fragment deorphanization through close-proximity labeling

Interests: Scale model building, cooking, tennis, volleyball, exploring the outdoors

 

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Kaan Kumru

BS from University of Texas at Austin

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Project: Exploring and expanding KineTACs

Interests: Jazz, cycling, lobbing boomerangs

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Rita Loudermilk 
BS from University of California Davis
Project: Engineering & targeting the tumor cell surface
Interests: Climbing, mushroom hunting, skateboarding, biking, sewing
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Madison Seto

BA from Scripps College

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Project: antibody library design and selections

Interests: baking, pointing out good dogs

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Sruthi Raguveer

BS from Stanford University

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Project: Protein engineering for cancer therapeutics

Interests: Cooking, eating, dogs, sun

 

Kamyar Yazdani

BS from Duke University 

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Project: Applying protein engineering to cell therapy 

Interests: Eating, hiking, traveling, and sending memes to my friends

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Oleksandr Zginnyk

BA in Biochemistry, MS in Chemistry from University of Pennsylvania

[email protected]

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Project: Profiling immune synapse interactions

Interests: Brazillian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), running, hiking, philosophy

Oleks
 

Antibiome Center

Kevin Leung, PhD

Associate Director of Antibiome Center
PhD and BMSc from University of Western Ontario
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Interests: hiking, cycling

Leung
 

Snehal Ganjave, PhD

Specialist

PhD in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology

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Interests: Crafting gardening, photography

 

Yun Zhang

Associate Specialist

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Interests: Gardening, hiking

Yun
 

Rucha Deo

Assistant Specialist

MS in Bioinformatics from San Jose State University

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Interests: cycling, hiking, yoga, music

Rucha
 

Jesseca Chung

Assistant Research Specialist

BS in Neuroscience from University of Keele

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Interests: Hiking, films, literature, traveling

 

Brandon Apresa

Jr. Specialist

BA in Biology with a minor in Neuroscience from Lewis and Clark College

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Interests: running, yoga, music, food

 

Annie Hu

Jr. Specialist

BS in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics from University of California, Davis

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Interests: ballet, plants, cooking, reading

Annie
 

Hammam Jumaa

Jr. Specialist

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Interests: Soccer, running, surfing, hiking, watching sports

 

Lab Technicians

Ula Soegianto
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Vivian Yuan

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Interests - Music, Photography, Cinema, Cats

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Image credit: Wells: Elisabeth Fall