Former Lab Members
Julian Schroeder, P.I.
Former Post-Doctoral Associates
Name                                  Subsequent/Present Position
| Fernando Aleman Guillen |
Co-Founder & CSO Navega Therapeutics Inc., Cientifico Titular IRNAS-CSIC |
| Danuta Maria Antosiewicz |
Associate Professor, Polish Academy Science Warsaw, Poland |
| Miroslava Anderova | Professor & Chair Dept. Cellular Neurophysiol., Inst. of Experimental Med., Prague, Czech Republic |
| Tamar Azoulay-Shemer |
Unit Director, Volcani Research Center, Newe Yaaïr, Israel |
| Victor-Baizabal-Aguirre | Associate Professor, American University Mexico |
| Maik Böhmer |
Research Associate, University of Münster, Germany |
| Aurelien Boisson-Dernier |
Research Director, INRAE Agrobiotech, Nice France |
| Peter Buschmann | IBM Senior Programmer |
| Stephan Clemens |
Professor, University of Bayreuth, Germany |
| Alex Costa |
Associate Professor, University of Milano, Italy |
| Jean Colcombet |
Permanent Scientist, INRA, Versailles, France |
| Ulrich Deinlein |
Head of R&D surgical, Serag-Wiessner, Germany |
| Guillaume Dubeaux |
Scientist, Illumina Inc., San Diego |
| Walter Gassmann |
Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA |
| Majid Ghassemian |
Proteomics Core Director, UCSD Chem & Biochem Dept., CA, USA |
| Markus Gierth |
Assistant Scientist, University Köln, Germany |
| Jiming Gong |
Professor, Chinese Academy of Science, SIPPE Institute, Shanghai, China |
| Tomaki Horie |
Associate Professor, Shinsu University, Nagano, Japan |
| Honghong Hu |
Professor, Huazong Agricultural University (HZAU), Wuhan, China |
| Katharine Hubbard |
Reader (Faculty member), University of Hull, UK |
| Veronique Hugouvieux |
Permanent Scientist, CEA Grenoble, France |
| Maria Israelsson (-Nordstrom) |
Associate Professor, University Umea, Sweden |
| Eugene Kim |
Biogen Idec Inc., Boston, USA |
| Tae-Houn Kim |
Professor, Seoul, Korea |
| Birgit Klusener |
DAAD Bonn, Germany |
| Kazuyuki Kuchitsu |
Professor, Tokyo University of Science, Japan |
| Josef Kuhn |
Senior R&D Management BASF Plant Sci. |
| Henning Kunz |
Associate Professor, Washington State University, USA - Professor LMU, Munich, Germany |
| Ute Krämer |
Professor, University of Bochum, Germany |
| June M. Kwak |
Associate Professor, University of Maryland, USA & DGIST, South Korea |
| Nathalie Leonhardt |
Directeur de Recherche, CEA Cadarache, France |
| Zixing Li |
Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| Pascal Mäser |
Professor, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| David Mendoza-Cozatl |
Associate Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA |
| Izumi Mori |
Associate Professor, Okayama University, Japan |
| Shintaro Munemasa |
Assistant Professor, Okayama University, Japan |
| Yoshiyuki Murata |
Professor, Okayama University, Japan |
| Noriyuki Nishimura |
Associate Professor, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NAIST), Ibaraki, Japan |
| Jiyoung Park |
Asst. Professor, San Diego Mesa College |
| Zhen-Ming Pei |
Associate Professor, Duke University, USA |
| Nadia Robert |
Assistant Professor, New Caledonia |
| Ros Roc-Palau |
Associate Professor, University of Valencia, Spain |
| Francisco Rubio |
Associate Professor, CSIC, Murcia, Spain |
| Diego Sanchez |
Sainbury Laboratory, Cambridge, UK |
| Charles Seller |
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, USA |
| Sebastian Schulze |
Scientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific, San Diego |
| Robert Siegel |
Staff Scientist, Invitrogen Corp., Carlsbad, CA, USA |
| Daniel Schachtman |
Project Leader, Monsanto; Professor, Danforth Center; Professor, University of Nebraska, USA |
| Aaron Stephan |
Director of Biological Research and Development at ONCE, Inc., Plymouth, MN, USA |
| Dongyul (Dan) Sung |
Project Scientist, Monsanto, RTP, N.C., USA |
| Yohei Takahashi |
Associate Prof. Nagoya University, Inst. For Transformative Biomolecules (ITbM), Japan |
| Sebastien Thomine |
Directeur de Recherche, CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette, France |
| Patrice Thuleau |
Permanent Scientist, INRA Toulouse, France |
| Yi-Fang Tsay |
Professor, Academia Sinica Institute of Molecular Biology (co-advised), Taipei, Taiwan |
| Nobuyuki Uozumi |
Professor, Tohoku University, Japan |
| Rama Vaidyanathan |
Professor, Chennai, India |
| Rainer Waadt |
Akad. Rat (Assist. Prof.), Uni Muenster, Germany |
| Cun Wang |
Professor, State Key Lab of Crop Stress Biology, Northwest A&F University, China |
| Yongfei Wang |
Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, SIPPE, Shanghai, China |
| John M. Ward |
Professor, University of Minnesota, USA |
| Juyou Wu |
Associate Professor, Nanjing Agricultural University |
| Shaowu Xue |
Professor, Huazong Agricultural University, China |
| Yingzhen Yang |
Permanent Staff Scientist, USDA Geneva NY, USA |
| Jingbo Zhang |
Professor, Chinese Agricultural University, Beijing |
Former Ph.D Graduate Students
Name                                  Subsequent/Present Position
| Yong-Wei Cao |
Senior Bioinformatics Group Leader, Monsanto (co-advised) St. Louis, USA |
| Paulo Ceciliato |
Research Group Leader, Sugarcane Technology Center (CTC, Brazil) |
| Alice Chen | Senior Manager for North America, Product Stewardship & Regulatory DuPont, Palo Alto, USA |
| Andrew Cooper |
Lecturer, UCSD Biological Sciences and Adjunct Faculty, Biology Palomar College, San Diego, USA |
| Sabine Frietsch |
BASF Scientist (co-advised) |
| Walter Gassman |
Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA |
| Audrey Ichida |
ICF Science Consulting, MD; Senior Manager, Maryland, USA |
| Timothy O. Jobe |
Staff Scientist in Plant Genetics, USDA, Lubbock TX |
| Walter Kelly |
U.S. State Department, Washington D.C., USA |
| David Lee |
Director of Molecular Biology, Edenspace Corp.; ARPA-E, Washington DC., USA |
| Majse Nafisi |
Assistant Professor at University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Dianne Pater |
Assistant Prof. Vasser College, NY & Amherst College, MA, USA |
| Christian Schmidt |
Founder and Chief Science Officer, Cytion, Epalinges CH, Picodrill, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Stephen Tanner (Pl Sys Biol committee member) |
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist and Manager, Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA, USA |
| David Waner |
Bioinformatics Scientist, Accelrys Inc., CA, USA |
| Taiming Yong |
Precision Medicine genetic-testing Co. manager |
| Qingqing Xie |
Principal Scientist, Cirsium Biosciences, San Diego |
| Xuan Yao |
Assistant Professor, HZAU, Wuhan, China |
| Jared J. Young |
Associate Professor, Mills College, CA, USA |
| Zhongchun Zhang |
Assistant Professor, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China |
| Li Zhang |
Asst. Prof. CAAS Chengdu |
Some Former Undergraduate Research Trainees and Masters Degree Completed in Schroeder Lab (MS)
Name                                  Subsequent/Present Position
| Garo Akmakjian | MS, (Ph.D student, Dartmouth) |
| April Alex | MS, (Biotech Law School, CA) |
| Suwayda Ali | MS |
| Britt Anderson | (Ph.D, Yale University; Associate Scientific Director, StemScientific) |
| Shannon Andreoli | (Cal State University, Lecturer) |
| Andisheh Bagheri | MS, (Genentech) |
| Benjamin Brandt | Group Leader Protein Biochemistry, LMU Munich |
| Solana Blantz | MS, Lab Manager Eton Bioscience |
| Rachel Bloom | MS, (Teacher, SF Bay Area) |
| Dennis Brodsky | MS, (Physician Assistant school) |
| Angela Brooks | Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz. (Ph.D Berkeley, Post Doc. at Broad Institute, Cambridge, Boston) |
| Emerald Butko | MS, (Ph.D. student, UCSD) |
| Daniel Caddell | Ph.D., (Postdoc, USDA & UC Berkeley) |
| Wai-Yin Chan | MS, (Dentistry School, Harvard University) |
| Kelly Chow | MS, Research Associate at Biotech Co. in SD |
| Sarah Chu | MS |
| Zhouran Ding | (Masters student, University of Pennsylvania) |
| Marie Dizon | MS, (DDS., UCLA School of Dentistry) |
| Brenden Eckelmann | MS, (Ph.D student, UCSD School of Pharmacy) |
| Christine Emuka | Rady Children's Hospital; MS San Francisco U |
| Onur Erbilgin | (Ph.D student, UC Berkeley) |
| Henry Fang | (MD) |
| Alex Figueroa | (Medical School, UT Southwestern) |
| Vince Garin | Research Associate (Singular Genomics, Inc.) |
| Tracy Gerona | (Biomed Sci., MS studies) |
| Elad Gil | (Ph.D, MIT; Exec., Twitter) |
| Jan Godoski | MS, (R&D Scientist, Advanced, Agilent Technologies) |
| Tracy Ha | MS, (DDS., UCLA School of Dentistry) |
| Greta Hockett | MS, (MD, University of Washington) |
| Dianna Hussey | MS, (Teacher, CA) |
| Ayuna Jombik | MS, Staff Research Associate, Kura Oncology |
| Klara Kernig | MS, (Tech/IT Industry) |
| Lina Khan | (Master's Student in Environmental Management, Duke University) |
| Kellie Kim | (Master's Student in Bioinformatics, UCSD) |
| Bryan Kumabe | MS, (Teacher, San Diego, CA) |
| Shannon Laub | (Bioengineering Ph.D. student, University of Pennsylvania) |
| Melissa Lee | MS, (Biologist, Menon International) |
| Stephen Lee | Â |
| Ho-Yin Leung | MS, (Cal Tech Technician; DDS., UCLA School  of Dentistry) |
| Amy Liu | MS, (Physician Assistant student, Pace University, NY) |
| Danny Mackesy | MS, (USDA Scientist, Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| Tulio Magana | MS, (Research Assistant, Salk Institute) |
| Mohammad Maktabi | MS, (MD/Ph.D, Washington University, St. Louis) |
| Bianca Manalansan | MS, (Lab Technician, UC Berkeley) |
| Alexandre Miaule | MS, (Research Technician, Salk Institute) |
| Majse Nafisi | MS, (Ph.D, Copenhagen, DK) |
| Desiree Nguyen | MS, (Senior Research Associate, Cibus US LLC) |
| Vinh Nguyen | MS, (Ph.D Brown University) |
| Allis Pham | MS, (Columbia University) |
| Eduardo Ramirez | MS |
| Felipe Rangel | MS (Mesabiotech, San Diego) |
| Yvonne Rangel | Intramural NIAID Research Program NIH |
| Amber Ries | MS, (Physician Assistant, Chino, CA) |
| Lisa Della Ripa | Ph.D. Chemistry, U. Illinois CU, Nouryon Inc. |
| Maryan Rizk | Ph.D., (Postdoctoral fellow, The Scripps research Institute) |
| Jesse Rodriguez | (Ph.D student, Bioinformatics, Stanford) |
| Kelsey Roman | (Medical School, UC Irvine ) |
| Shane Samarasena | MS, Lecturer at Pima Medical Institute |
| Alex Scavo | MS, Medical School |
| Morgana Sidhom | MS |
| Kelsey Swink | MS, R&D at nanoComposix |
| Thien Trac | MS, Senior Research Associate, Rebus Biosystems |
| Alexandria Tran | (Ph.D. student, Urbana Champagne) |
| Kathryn Tsai | (Medical School, California University of Science and Medicine) |
| Carlos Vera | (Teacher) |
| Angela Wang | Â |
| Sonny(Qiuyi) Wang | Tufts University School of Dentistry |
| Mandy Wong | (Ph.D. student, Stanford U.) |
| Eric Yang | (Programmer, Illumina Inc.) |
| Paul Yang | MS, (Biologist, Menon International) |
| Diana Youhanna | Research Tech, (La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology) |
| Andrina (Xiaoxuan) Zhang | Software Engineer, Bose Corporation |
Some Former Undergraduate Research Trainees and Masters Degree Completed in Schroeder Lab (MS)
Name                                  Subsequent/Present Position
| Gicel Abraham | Â |
| Josu Barragn | (Computer Science BS: Software Engineering major, Point Loma Nazarene University) |
| Jocelyn Gomez | Â |
| Sheridan Kieu | (major in Bioengineering, UC San Diego |
| Natalie Nguyen | (UC San Diego) |
| Isaiah Rankin | (New School of Architecture in San Diego) |
| Natalya Siratana | (UC San Diego) |
Visiting Summer Students
Name                                  Subsequent/Present Position
| Jada Bezue | (Xavier University of Louisiana) |
| Natasha Carlson | (California State University of Northridge) |
| Salvador Cruz Matus | (Ph.D. student, North Carolina University) |
| Deborah Fadoju | (Medical School at Ohio State) |
| Judith E.B. Lujano | (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California) |
| Jelani Lyda | (Ph.D. student, UC San Diego) |
| Chiemeziem Oguayo | (Howard University) |