Leadership

Our Team

Executive Board

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Lauren Cheng

Co-President

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 3rd Year

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Avani Durve

Co-President

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 4th Year

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Sharon Mann

Vice President

Biology, 4th Year

 

Directors of Outreach

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Lauren Cheng

Lab Tours

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 3rd Year

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Tiana Do

Lab Tours

Biomedical Engineering, 3rd Year

Sharon Mann

Sharon Mann

Lab Tours

Biology, 4th Year

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Dhriti Anandh

Social Chair

Biological Sciences, 2nd year

 

 

 

 

 

Program Leads

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Peggy Wu

Journal Club Co-Lead

Biological Sciences, 3rd Year

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Kirtana Poikayil

Journal Club Co-Lead

Biomedical Engineering, 3rd Year

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Maya Dhani Patel

LIFT Co-Lead

Genetics and Genomics, 4th Year

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Brandon Fong

LIFT Co-Lead

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 4th Year

 

 

 

 

 

Student Lab Managers

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Lauren Cheng

BIG-RT Co-Lead

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 3rd Year

Tiffany Gee

Tiffany Gee

BIG-RT Co-Lead

Biotechnology, 4th Year

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Sage Zope

BIG-RT Co-Lead

Biotechnology, 3rd Year

 

Research Team Leads

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Heidi Lim

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Biological Systems Engineering, 3rd Year

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Tanushri Joseph

Real Vegan Cheese

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 3rd Year

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Katrina Le

ALGene

Cell Biology, 4th Year

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Tyler Sousa

ALGene

Systems and Synthetic Biology, 4th Year

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Josiah Saavedra-Flores

Organo-Chip

Biomedical Engineering, 4th Year

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Pelin Eroglu

Organo-Chip

Biomedical Engineering, 3rd Year

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Hafsa Aslam

Organo-Chip

Molecular and Medical Microbiology, 3rd Year

Alex Truong

Alex Truong

Microfluidics

Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, 3rd Year

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Tanay Bartwal

Microfluidics

Biomedical Engineering, 4th Year

Varun Poojary

iGEM Lead

Biomedical Engineering, 3rd Year

Jael Santos

Jael Santos

iGEM Lead

Molecular and Medical Microbiology, 3rd Year

 

 

Media

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Addison Shah

Website Manager and Blog Director

Human Biology, 2nd Year

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Kiara Shankar

Social Media Manager

Cognitive Science, 2nd Year
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Momina Jaffar

Newsletter

Molecular and Medical Microbiology, 4th Year

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Vansh Jain

Newsletter

Biotechnology, 2nd Year

 


 
 
 

 

Mentors & Advisors

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Dr. Marc Facciotti

Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Genome Center
Andrew Yao

Andrew Yao, M.S.

Research and Development Engineer, BioInnovation Lab Manager
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Steven Lucero

Development Engineer, TEAM Lab
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Valentina Rueda

Jr. Specialist, Genome Center