Former Lab Members

Julian Schroeder, P.I.

Former Post-Doctoral Associates

Name                                     Subsequent/Present Position
Fernando Aleman Guillen
CSO Navega Therapeutics Inc.
Danuta Maria
Antosiewicz
Associate Professor, Polish Academy Science Warsaw, Poland
Miroslava Anderova
Professor & Chair Dept. Cellular Neurophysiol., Inst. of Experimental Med., Prague, Czech Republic
Tamar Azoulay-Shemer
Principal Investigator, Volcani Ag. Research Center, Newe Yaa�r, Israel
Victor-Baizabal-Aguirre
Associate Professor, American University Mexico
Maik B�hmer
Research Associate, University of M�nster, Germany
Aurelien Boisson-Dernier
Research Director, INRAE Agrobiotech, Nice France
Peter Buschmann
IBM Senior Programmer
Stephan Clemens
Professor, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Alex Costa
Associate Professor, University of Milano, Italy
Jean Colcombet
Permanent Scientist, INRA, Versailles, France
Ulrich Deinlein
Head of R&D surgical, Serag-Wiessner, Germany
Guillaume Dubeaux
Scientist, Illumina Inc., San Diego
Walter Gassmann
Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
Majid Ghassemian
Proteomics Core Director, UCSD Chem & Biochem Dept., CA, USA
Markus Gierth
Assistant Scientist, University K�ln, Germany
Jiming Gong
Professor, Chinese Academy of Science, SIPPE Institute, Shanghai, China
Tomaki Horie
Associate Professor, Shinsu University, Nagano, Japan
Honghong Hu
Professor, Huazong Agricultural University (HZAU), Wuhan, China
Katharine Hubbard
Reader (Faculty member), University of Hull, UK
Veronique Hugouvieux
Permanent Scientist, CEA Grenoble, France
Maria Israelsson (-Nordstrom)
Associate Professor, University Umea, Sweden
Eugene Kim
Biogen Idec Inc., Boston, USA
Tae-Houn Kim
Professor, Seoul, Korea
Birgit Kl�sener
DAAD Bonn, Germany
Kazuyuki Kuchitsu
Professor, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Josef Kuhn
Senior R&D Management BASF Plant Sci.
Henning Kunz
Associate Professor, Washington State University, USA - Professor LMU, Munich, Germany
Ute Kr�mer
Professor, University of Bochum, Germany
June M. Kwak
Associate Professor, University of Maryland, USA & DGIST, South Korea
Nathalie Leonhardt
Directeur de Recherche, CEA Cadarache, France
Zixing Li
Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Pascal M�ser
Professor, University of Basel, Switzerland
David Mendoza-Cozatl
Associate Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
Izumi Mori
Associate Professor, Okayama University, Japan
Shintaro Munemasa
Assistant Professor, Okayama University, Japan
Yoshiyuki Murata
Professor, Okayama University, Japan
Noriyuki Nishimura
Associate Professor, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences  (NAIST), Ibaraki, Japan
Zhen-Ming Pei
Associate Professor, Duke University, USA
Nadia Robert
Assistant Professor, New Caledonia
Ros Roc-Palau
Associate Professor, University of Valencia, Spain
Francisco Rubio
Associate Professor, CSIC, Murcia, Spain
Diego Sanchez
Sainbury Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
Sebastian Schulze
Scientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific, San Diego
Robert Siegel
Staff Scientist, Invitrogen Corp., Carlsbad, CA, USA
Daniel Schachtman
Project Leader, Monsanto; Professor, Danforth Center; Professor, University of Nebraska, USA
Aaron Stephan
Director of Biological Research and Development at ONCE, Inc., Plymouth, MN, USA
Dongyul (Dan) Sung
Project Scientist, Monsanto, RTP, N.C., USA
Yohei Takahashi
Associate Prof. Nagoya University, Inst.
For Transformative Biomolecules (ITbM), Japan
Sebastien Thomine
Directeur de Recherche, CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Patrice Thuleau
Permanent Scientist, INRA Toulouse, France
Yi-Fang Tsay
Professor, Academia Sinica Institute of Molecular Biology (co-advised), Taipei, Taiwan
Nobuyuki Uozumi
Professor, Tohoku University, Japan
Rama Vaidyanathan
Professor, Chennai, India
Rainer Waadt
U. Heidelberg, Germany
Cun Wang
Professor, State Key Lab of Crop Stress Biology, Northwest A&F University, China
Yongfei Wang
Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, SIPPE, Shanghai, China
John M. Ward
Professor, University of Minnesota, USA
Juyou Wu
Associate Professor, Nanjing Agricultural University
Shaowu Xue
Professor, Huazong Agricultural University, China
Yingzhen Yang
Permanent Staff Scientist, USDA Geneva NY, USA
Jingbo Zhang
Professor, Chinese Agricultural University, Beijing
Former Ph.D Graduate Students
Yong-Wei Cao
Senior Bioinformatics Group Leader, Monsanto (co-advised) St. Louis, USA
Paulo Ceciliato
Research Group Leader, Sugarcane Technology Center (CTC, Brazil)
Alice Chen
Senior Manager for North America, Product Stewardship & Regulatory DuPont, Palo Alto, USA
Andrew Cooper
Lecturer, UCSD Biological Sciences and
Adjunct Faculty, Biology Palomar College, San Diego, USA
Sabine Frietsch
BASF Scientist (co-advised)
Walter Gassman
Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
Audrey Ichida
ICF Science Consulting, MD; Senior Manager, Maryland, USA
Timothy O. Jobe
Staff Scientist in Plant Genetics,
USDA, Lubbock TX
Walter Kelly
U.S. State Department, Washington D.C., USA
David Lee
Director of Molecular Biology, Edenspace Corp.; ARPA-E, Washington DC., USA
Majse Nafisi
Assistant Professor at University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dianne Pater
Assistant Prof. Vasser College, NY & Amherst College, MA, USA
Christian Schmidt
Founder and Chief Science Officer, Cytion, Epalinges CH, Picodrill, Lausanne, Switzerland
Stephen Tanner (Pl Sys Biol committee member)
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist and Manager, Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA, USA
David Waner
Bioinformatics Scientist, Accelrys Inc., CA, USA
Taiming Yong
Precision Medicine genetic-testing Co. manager
Qingqing Xie
Postdoctoral associate, Salk Institute
Xuan Yao
Assistant Professor, HZAU, Wuhan, China
Jared J. Young
Associate Professor, Mills College, CA, USA
Zhongchun Zhang
Assistant Professor, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
Li Zhang
Asst. Prof. CAAS Chengdu
Some Former Undergraduate Research Trainees and Masters Degree Completed in Schroeder Lab (MS)

Garo Akmakjian
MS, (Ph.D student, Dartmouth)
April AlexMS, (Biotech Law School, CA)
Suwayda AliMS
Britt Anderson
(Ph.D, Yale University; Associate Scientific Director, StemScientific)
Shannon Andreoli(Cal State University, Lecturer)
Andisheh BagheriMS, (Genentech)
Benjamin Brandt
Group Leader Protein Biochemistry, LMU Munich
Rachel Bloom
MS, (Teacher, SF Bay Area)
Dennis Brodsky
MS, (Physician Assistant school)
Angela Brooks
Assistant Professor,
University of California, Santa Cruz.
(Ph.D Berkeley, Post Doc. at Broad Institute, Cambridge, Boston)
Emerald ButkoMS, (Ph.D. student, UCSD)
Daniel Caddell
Ph.D., (Postdoc, USDA & UC Berkeley)
Wai-Yin Chan
MS, (Dentistry School, Harvard University)
Sarah Chu
MS
Zhouran Ding
(Masters student, University of Pennsylvania)
Marie Dizon
MS, (DDS., UCLA School of Dentistry)
Brenden Eckelmann
MS, (Ph.D student, UCSD School of Pharmacy)
Christine Emuka
Rady Children's Hospital;
MS San Francisco U
Onur Erbilgin
(Ph.D student, UC Berkeley)
Henry Fang
(MD)
Alex Figueroa
(Medical School, UT Southwestern)
Vince Garin
Research Associate (Singular Genomics, Inc.)
Tracy Gerona
(Biomed Sci., MS studies)
Elad Gil
(Ph.D, MIT; Exec., Twitter)
Jan Godoski
MS, (R&D Scientist, Advanced, Agilent Technologies)
Tracy Ha
MS, (DDS., UCLA School of Dentistry)
Greta Hockett
MS, (MD, University of Washington)
Dianna Hussey
MS, (Teacher, CA)
Klara Kernig
MS, (Tech/IT Industry)
Lina Khan
(Master's Student in Environmental Management, Duke University)
Kellie Kim
(Master's Student in Bioinformatics, UCSD)
Bryan Kumabe
MS, (Teacher, San Diego, CA)
Shannon Laub
(Bioengineering Ph.D. student, University of Pennsylvania)
Melissa Lee
MS, (Biologist, Menon International)
Stephen Lee

Ho-Yin Leung MS, (Cal Tech Technician; DDS., UCLA School  of Dentistry)
Amy Liu
MS, (Physician Assistant student, Pace University, NY)
Danny Mackesy
MS, (USDA Scientist, Fort Collins, Colorado)
Mohammad Maktabi
MS, (MD/Ph.D, Washington University, St. Louis)
Bianca Manalansan
MS, (Lab Technician, UC Berkeley)
Alexandre Miaule
MS, (Research Technician, Salk Institute)
Majse Nafisi
MS, (Ph.D, Copenhagen, DK)
Desiree Nguyen
MS, (Senior Research Associate, Cibus US LLC)
Vinh Nguyen
MS, (Ph.D Brown University)
Allis Pham
MS, (Columbia University)
Eduardo Ramirez
MS
Felipe Rangel
MS (Mesabiotech, San Diego)
Yvonne Rangel
Intramural NIAID Research Program NIH
Amber Ries
MS, (Physician Assistant, Chino, CA)
Lisa Della RipaPh.D. Chemistry, U. Illinois CU, Nouryon Inc.
Maryan Rizk
Ph.D., (Postdoctoral fellow, The Scripps research Institute)
Jesse Rodriguez
(Ph.D student, Bioinformatics, Stanford)
Kelsey Roman
(Medical School, UC Irvine )
Alex Scavo
MS, Medical School
Morgana Sidhom
MS
Kelsey Swink
MS, R&D at nanoComposix
Thien Trac
MS, Senior Research Associate, Rebus Biosystems
Alexandria Tran
(Ph.D. student, Urbana Champagne)
Kathryn Tsai
(Medical School, California University of Science and Medicine)
Carlos Vera
(Teacher)
Angela Wang

Sonny(Qiuyi) Wang
Tufts University School of Dentistry
Mandy Wong
(Ph.D. student, Stanford U.)
Eric Yang
(Programmer, Illumina Inc.)
Paul Yang
MS, (Biologist, Menon International)
Diana YouhannaResearch Tech,
(La Jolla Institute for
Allergy and Immunology)
Some Previous High School Students

Gicel Abraham

Josu Barragn
(Computer Science BS: Software Engineering major, Point Loma Nazarene University)
Jocelyn Gomez

Sheridan Kieu
(major in Bioengineering, UC San Diego
Natalie Nguyen
(UC San Diego)
Isaiah Rankin
(New School of Architecture in San Diego)
Natalya Siratana
(UC San Diego)
Visiting Summer Students

Jada Bezue
(Xavier University of Louisiana)
Natasha Carlson
(California State University of Northridge)
Salvador Cruz Matus
(Ph.D. student, North Carolina University)
Deborah Fadoju
(Medical School at Ohio State)
Judith E.B. Lujano
(Universidad Aut�noma de Baja California)
Jelani Lyda
(Ph.D. student, UC San Diego)
Chiemeziem Oguayo
(Howard University)