Joseph Oh
BS/MS Student
Samuel Gabovitz
Undergraduate Student
Yaron Fireizen, MD
Infectious Diseases Fellow
Ana Cobian, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Gabrielle Shapiro
Undergraduate Student
Khrissa Lecrone, BS
Research Associate
PALMS Lab
Alisha Blanc
Research Associate
Principal Investigator
David T. Pride, MD PhD
Former Lab Members
Elizabeth Luchinski
Undergraduate Student
Peiting Kuo, BS
Research Associate
PALMS Lab
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.
Emma Ellefson-Frank
Undergraduate Student
Lab Members
Andrew Garcia, BS
Senior Research Associate
Lab manager
Marissa Proost
Research Associate
PALMS Lab
Madison Wong
Undergraduate Student
Social Media Intern
Monica Bates
Undergraduate Student
Jaehoon Kim
Undergraduate Student
Natasha Kanhirun
Undergraduate Student
Connor Dam
Undergraduate Student
Ethan Khong
Research Associate
Pooja Ghatbale, MS
Senior Research Associate
Sirius Wang
High School Student
Jesse Leonard
Undergraduate Student
Anh Tran
Research Associate
PALMS Lab
Alicia Amamoto
Research Associate
PALMS Lab
Kristin Nghiem
IPATH Scholars Program