Former Lab Members

Issam Ben Salem​

​Visiting Scholar​​

Gabrielle Shapiro

Undergraduate Student

Past IPATH Scholar

Albert Nasr

​​Undergraduate Student

Gunnar Idsvoog

Undergraduate Student​

Jeong-hwan Hwang​

Visiting Scholar​

Lou-Lena Vrignaud

​​Visiting Graduate Student

Zachary Pride

​High School Student

Andrew Sue

Graduate Student

SDSU/UCSD

Dr. Pride is originally from Nashville, Tennessee. He received his undergraduate degree in biology from Wake Forest University and entered the MSTP program at Vanderbilt University. He received his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Vanderbilt University in the laboratory of Dr. Martin Blaser and completed his M.D. at New York University.  He finished his medical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Internal Medicine, and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Stanford University.  He then moved to The University of California, San Diego and serves as the Director of the Clinical Molecular Microbiology Laboratory and as the Associate Director of the Microbiology Laboratory. He also runs a research laboratory dedicated to human microbiome and human virome work. Dr. Pride also collaborates with the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics at UCSD, and has been working to understand how we might better understand the interactions between phages and their host bacteria for phage therapy. Dr. Pride's other major interests are in developing diagnostic tests for infectious diseases, and in understanding the role of microbial communities in human health and disease. 

Marine Tourneur​

​Visiting Masters Student​​

Norhan Turki

Volunteer

Principal Investigator

• Mayuri Naidu, Staff Research Associate
  
• Refugio Robles-Sikisaka, Ph.D., Postdoc
  
• Nitya Rao, Undergraduate Student
  
• ​Christina Yeh, Undergraduate Student
  
• ​​​Madona Khoshabafard, Undergraduate Student
  
• ​Ray-Young Tsao, Undergraduate Student
  
• ​Rami Michael, Resident
  
• ​Andrew Lum, DDS
  
• ​Philip Herbert, Undergraduate Student
  
• ​Ryan McKinzie, Undergraduate Student, CLS
  
• ​Leslie Yip, Undergraduate Student
  
• ​Jonathan Gao, Dental Student
  
• Gabrielle Pine, Undergraduate Student
  
• Zachary Baldwin, Masters Student​
• Jessica Chopyk, PhD, Postdoc
  
• Hedieh Attai, PhD, Postdoc
  
• Serena McCarthy, MS, IPATH Virtual Intern
  
• Lina Huang, BS, Lab Manager, Medical Student
  
• Sam Penziner, MD, Infectious Diseases Physician
  
• Grace Kovalick, MS
  
• Nicole Hitchcock, BS, Medical Student
  
• Valeria Bonomie, Undergraduate Student
  
• Christine Do, Undergraduate Student
  
• Andrea Lay Kwoon, PharmD, Visiting Scholar
  
• Erin Natale, BS, Masters Student
  
• Govind Sah, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar
  
• Megan Chiu, CLS
  
• Josh Borin, PhD
  
• Kanza Batool, Visiting Graduate Student
  
• Ethan Khong, Research Associate, Medical Student
  
• Khrissa LeCrone, CLS​
• Emma Ellefson-Frank, Undergraduate Student
  
• Madison Wong, Undergraduate Student, Social Media Intern
  
• Taek Soo Kim, MD, Visiting Scholar
  
• April Castaneda, Undergraduate Student
  
• Joseph Oh, MS
  
• Faiza Naz, Visiting Graduate Student
  
• Danielle Devequi Gomez Nunes, Visiting Graduate Student
  
• Maranda Stricklin, Undergraduate Student
  
• Sirius Wang, High School Student
  
• Prab Singh, Volunteer
  
• Grace Taylor, BS/MS Student
  
• Alisha Blanc, BS, Lab Manager
  
• Tia Cherabie, Undergraduate Student
  
• Josiah Peng, Undergraduate Student
  
• Anh Tran, Research Associate
  
• Veronica Huang, Undergraduate Student
  
• Tonny Thi, BS, Undergraduate Student
  

Madeleine Schwab

​​​Undergraduate Student

Jesse Leonard

Research Associate

PALMS Lab​​

Lauren Hopper

​Undergraduate Student

Victoria Carrico

Research Associate

PALMS Lab

Erin Kang

Undergraduate Student​​

Alicia Amamoto

Lab Manager

PALMS Lab

Monica Bates

​Research Associate

Interim Lab manager

Arvind Gouttumukkala

Rotating Graduate Student

Mint Ruangritchai​​Undergraduate Student

David T. Pride, MD PhD

Cole Souza

Research Associate

​Lab Manager

Matthew Nagel

High School Student

Bethzabe Serrano

Undergraduate Student

Lab Members

Kristin Eli

Ohio State Visiting Student

Connor Dam

IPATH Scholar

• Melissa Ly, Lab Manager, Staff Research Associate 
  
• Tasha Santiago-Rodriguez, Ph.D., Postdoc
  
• Shira Abeles, MD, Infectious Diseases Physician
  
• Abdul Saboory, Undergraduate Student
  
• Kevin Johnson, Undergraduate Student
  
• Tovia Bavly, MD
  
• Leila Schwanemann, Lab Manager, Staff Research Associate
  
• ​Katayoon Atabakhsh, Undergraduate Student
• Victoria Popov, Undergraduate Student
  
• Kevin Wu, Undergraduate Student
  
• Ivan Chan, ​Dental Student
  
• Ravi Sadhu, ​Undergraduate Student
  
• Olympia Alvarez, CLS, MPH
  
• Kathya Arana-Fernandez Garrido, Undergraduate Student
  
• Nicola Mangieri, Visiting Graduate Student
  
• Jenny Shin, BS, CLS
  
• ​Thaidra Gaufin, MD PhD, Infectious Diseases Physician
  
• Joseph Tygart, High School Student
  
• Lei Wang, Visiting Scholar
  
• Lamya Lokhandwala, Undergraduate Student
  
• ​Vivian Lin, CLS
  
• Claudia Sanchez-Ramirez, MD, Infectious Diseases Physician
  
• Roland Liu, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar
  
• Jasmine Chung, MD, Visiting Scholar
  
• Dustin Heeney, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar
  
• Alison Rhoads, Undergraduate Student
  
• My Nguyen, CLS
  
• Job Shiach, Medical Student​
• Peiting Kuo, CLS
  
• ​Jaehoon Kim, Undergraduate Student
  
• Samuel Gabovitz, Undergraduate Student
  
• Connor Dam, Undergraduate Student
  
• Kristin Nghiem, IPATH Scholars Program
• Katja Suster, Visiting Scholar
  
• Brandon Sharp, Volunteer
  
• Marissa Proost, CLS
  
• Addie Pavkov, Visiting Undergraduate Student
  
• Lilian Zeng, High School Student
  
• Gabe Koch, Undergraduate Student
  
• Zachary Pride, High School Student
  
• Manola Orlotti, Visiting Student
  
• Yaron Fireizen, MD, Pulm/ID
  
• Andrew Garcia, Lab Manager, Clinical Coordinator
  
• Natasha Kanhirun, MS
  
• Ludwig Wang, BS/MS Student
  
• Priya Singh, Undergraduate Student
  
• Pooja Ghatbale, MS, Senior Research Associate
  
• Rose Bero, MS, Volunteer
  
• Karyme Rodriguez, BS, Undergraduate Student
  
• Andrew Su, BS, Undergraduate Student
  

Ana Cobian, PhD

​​Postdoctoral Scholar

President's Fellow​​