Current Lab Members



Mark Estelle

Principal Investigator
E-mail: mestelle@ucsd.edu

UC San Diego faculty page



Michael Prigge

Lab Manager/Project Scientist
E-mail: mprigge@ucsd.edu

PhD, University of Oregon
BS, University of Minnesota

Google Scholar


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Zhaonan Ban

Post-Doctoral Fellow
E-mail: zhban@ucsd.edu

PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences





Suraya Amiri

Laboratory Assistant



Kailey Wong

Laboratory Assistant




Ellyse Ku

Laboratory Assistant



Helen Fong

Laboratory Assistant



YingLin Zhu

Laboratory Assistant

Former Lab Members

(Please email Mike with updates)

Carlisle Bascom, Jr.

Shreya Repakula

Natalie Karadanaian

Soeun Han

Meirav Lavy

Daniella Tu

Nicole Do

Sophie Irmak

Maya Ambroziak

Nathan Stutzman

Rammyani Bagchi

Mohammad Salehin

Yueh-Ju Hou

Yi Zhang

Haoyi Yang

Vivian Do

Arian Abdi

Whitnie Szutu

Laura Millard

Renhou Wang

Xiang Wang

Krzysztof Wabnik

Wan Shi

Sibo Tao

Stephanie Shain

Cristina Castillejo Mangado

Goh Choe

Kerstin Kirchsteiger

Dior Kelley

Silka Cheng

Bastiaan Bargmann

Brian Han

Colleen Doherty

Eilon Shani

Diana Burkart-Waco

Hong Yu

Katie Greenham

Mon-Ray Shao

Elisabeth Chapman

Luz Irina Calderon Villalobos

Lei Ge

Geraint Parry

Keithanne Mockaitis

Aaron Santner

Masashi Yamada

Sutton Mooney

Former Laboratory Assistants (pre 2018):

Eugene Joeh

Aileen Lee

Nikita Kadakia

Joseph Wong

Priya Patkar

Sumei Mai

Aggi Bialy

Britta Baynes

Kristof Tigyi

Tania Manchenkov

Ina Kim

Former Student researchers (pre 2018):

Yingluo Wang

Diane Le

Paul Chen

Gordon Young

Kelley Ma

April Kuo

Prema Karunanithi

Kellen Na

Christopher Livelo

Bonnie Kim

Jerry Thomas

Huy Diep

Andrew Kimberlin

Former Visitors:

Wenjun Xiang
(Visiting PhD student)

Leor Eshed-Williams
(Visiting Professor)

Vera Hesen
(Visiting MS student)

Mariana Carvalho
(Visiting student)

Sophie (Yang) Chen
(Visiting student)

Vanessa Peterson
(Visiting student)

Xuezheng Wang
(Visiting student)

Terrens Saaki
(Visiting MS student)

Thomas Vain
(Visiting PhD student)

Gioia Lenzoni
(Visiting MS student)

Joanna Akinlosotu
(Visiting student)