Our Team

Alexandra Newton

Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology

30 year lab reunion

Nileeka Balasuriya

Postdoctoral Fellow

BSc University of Peradeniya,

Sri Lanka

MSc Dalhousie University, Canada

PhD University of Western Ontario

Oishi Bhattacharya

Research Assistant

BS UCLA

Stefanie Hodapp

Graduate Student in BMS

BS University of Delaware

MA Columbia University

Graduate Student in BMS

BS UC Irvine

Naduun Karunatilleke

Postdoctoral Fellow

BS University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

MSc Dalhousie University, Canada

PhD University of Western Ontario

Postdoctoral Fellow

BS University of Illinois

PhD Washington University

Graduate Student in BMB

BS UCLA

Masters student

UC San Diego

Undergraduate

UC San Diego

Undergraduate

UC San Diego

Lab Doodles

ROMEO

TORREY

In Memoriam

SPARKY
2007-2022

Former graduate students

Stefanie Hodapp (Ph.D. 2026)

Alexander Jones (Ph.D. 2023)

Caila Pilo (Ph.D. 2022)

An-Angela Van (Ph.D. 2020)

Agnieszka T. Grzechnik Kawashima (Ph.D. 2020)

Tim Baffi (Ph.D. 2019)

Julia Callender (Ph.D. 2019)

Irene Tobias (Ph.D. 2016)

Corina Antal (Ph.D. 2015)

Alyssa Wu-Zhang (Ph.D. 2012)

Audrey O’Neill (Ph.D. 2012)

Noel Warfel (Ph.D. 2011)

Matt Niederst (Ph.D. 2011)

Lisa L. Gallegos (Ph.D. 2009)

Christine Gould (Ph.D. 2009)

John Brognard (Ph.D. 2007)

Dan Dries (Ph.D. 2006)

Angela Scott (Ph.D. 2006)

Jaime Marach (Ph.D. 2006)

Dan Chen (Ph.D. 2003)

Jon Violin (Ph.D. 2003)

Ryan Adams (Ph.D. 2002)

Erica (Dutil) Sonnenburg (Ph.D. 2000)

Amy Edwards (Ph.D. 1998)

Michelle Greene (Ph.D. 1997)

Lisa (Keranen) Burden (Ph.D. 1996)

Jeffrey Orr (Ph.D. 1994)

Rebecca Arnold (Ph.D. 1993)

Former postdoctoral fellows

Medha Sharma

Hannah Tovell

Celeste Gauron

Gema Lordén

Maya Kunkel

Monica Gonzalez

C.C. King

Ksenya Cohen-Katsenelson

Lisa Li-Chun Tsai

Gloria Reyes

Cicely Schramm

Emma Sierecki

Taketoshi Kajimoto

Hilde Abrahamsen

Tianyan Gao

Jennifer Giorgione

Eric Nalefski

Joanne Johnson

Marian Mosior

Annett Behn-Krappa