|
Name |
Degree |
Date Graduated (Month and Year) |
Advisor |
Where They Are Now: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Carissa J Dunn |
Ph.D. |
2019 |
Ramen Saha |
Senior Scientist, Neuron23 Inc. |
|
Heather Heck |
M.S. |
2011 |
Ariel Escobar |
Physician's Assistant Chaparral Medical Group |
|
Melanie Esperanza Andrea Mendez |
Ph.D. |
2019 |
Gabriela Loots |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Physical & Life Sciences |
|
Robert Gregory Poston |
Ph.D. |
2019 |
Ramen Saha |
|
|
Stephen Patrick Wilson |
Ph.D. |
2019 |
Gabriela Loots |
Computational Biology and Genomics Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
|
Benjamin Matthew Ziman |
Ph.D. |
2019 |
Nestor Oviedo |
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, |
|
Janna Emery |
M.S. |
2023 |
Jennifer Manilay |
|
|
Montserrat Santos |
M.S. |
2023 |
Maria Zoghbi |
|
|
Nicole Leon |
M.S. |
2022 |
Gabriela Loots |
Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
|
Alexandra Saxberg |
M.S. |
2022 |
Maria Zoghbi |
|
|
Candace Cole |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Miriam Barlow |
Bioinformatics Fellow, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
|
Anthony Lange |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Frederick Wolf |
Adjunct Instructor, University of Iowa |
|
Jonathan Anzules |
Ph.D. |
2023 |
Katrina Hoyer |
|
|
Graham Larue |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Scott Roy |
Bioinformatics Scientist, Mammoth Biosciences |
|
Jose Godoy Lugo |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Rudy Ortiz |
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Southern California |
|
April Apostol |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Kirk Jensen |
Custom Applications Scientist, BD |
|
Morgan Quail |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Aaron Hernday |
Manager, R&D, Natera |
|
Eli Isael Maciel |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Nestor Oviedo |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut Pasteur |
|
Megha Suswaram |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Justin Yeakel |
|
|
Amin Boroomand |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Paul Smaldino |
Computational Biologist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
|
Jillian McCool |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Gabriela Loots |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
|
Swadha Singh |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Scott Roy |
Postdcotoral Scientist, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
|
Yiping Guo |
Ph.D. |
2020 |
Changqing Li |
|
|
Mo Kaze |
Ph.D. |
2020 |
Mark Sistrom |
Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center |
|
Rhondene Wint |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Michael Cleary |
Bioinformatics Scientist, Mammoth Biosciences |
|
Robert Boria |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Jessica Blois |
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University |
|
Lauren Stark |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Michael Colvin |
|
|
Manuel Cornejo |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Rudy Ortiz |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurophth Therapeutics |
|
Mohammad Qasim |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Aaron Hernday |
Senior Scientist II, AbbVie |
|
Jessica Wilson |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Rudy Ortiz |
Field Application Scientist, ChemoMetec |
|
Mohamed Aboukilila |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Michael Cleary |
Senior Scientist, Regeneron |
|
Betsabel Chicana Romero |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Jennifer Manilay |
Adjunct Faculty, University of Washington; Faculty Lecturer, San Francisco State University |
|
Josephine Sami |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Michael Cleary |
Scientist, Pasture Biosciences |
|
Jackie Shay |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Carolin Frank |
Assistant Teaching Professor, Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology Department, UC Santa Barbara |
|
Cesar Morfin |
Ph.D. |
2023 |
Gabriela Loots |
Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Davis Health |
|
Sammy Villa |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Frederick Wolf |
Pstdoctoral Fellow, Calico Life Sciences |
|
Alberto Millan Hernandez |
Ph.D. |
2020 |
Jennifer Manilay |
|
|
Jasper Toscani Field |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Emily Jane McTavish |
|
|
Priyanka Bapat |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Clarissa Nobile |
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Molecular and Cellular Cancer Biology), REVOLUTION Medicines |
|
Kathryn Fischer |
Ph.D. |
2020 |
Patricia Liwang |
Research Scientist I, Evozyne |
|
Tyrome Sweet |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Mark Sistrom |
Postdoctoral Scientist, Emory University |
|
Pedro Diaz-Parga |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Eva De Alba Bastarrechea |
|
|
Jade Quail |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Michael Cleary |
|
|
Scott Souza |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Kirk Jensen |
Custom Applications Scientist, BD |
|
Anh Diep |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Katrina Hoyer |
Environmental Scientist, California Natural Resources Agency, Ocean Protection Council |
|
Taran Rallings |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Justin Yeakel |
|
|
Thaddeus Seher |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Clarissa Nobile |
Senior Software Enginer, Enumera Molecular |
|
Paola Saldierna Guzman |
Ph.D. |
2020 |
Stephen Hart |
Research Scientist, Colorado State University |
|
Diana Rodriguez |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Clarissa Nobile |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
|
Jourjina Alkhouri |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Miriam Barlow |
Professor of Biology, Merced College |
|
Akshay Paropkari |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Clarissa Nobile |
Bioinformatics Scientist II, Clear Labs |
|
Keedrian Olmstead |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Chris Amemiya |
Senior Scientist, NanoPharmaSolutions, Inc. |
|
Jeffrey Lauder |
Ph.D. |
2020 |
Emily Moran |
Executive Director, Sierra Streams Institute |
|
Danaan DeNeve Weeks |
Ph.D. |
2020 |
Jessica Blois |
Biology Instructor, College of Western Idaho |
|
Nicholas Hum |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Gabriela Loots |
Deputy Group Leader, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
|
Ashley Valle Arevalo |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Clarissa Nobile |
MicroByre, Inc. |
|
Genevieve Mullins |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Katrina Hoyer |
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
|
Maedeh Bazmi |
Ph.D. |
2022 |
Ariel Escobar |
|
|
Richard Gilbert |
M.S. |
2015 |
Stephen Hart |
Substitute Teacher Merced Union High School District |
|
Elizabeth Green |
M.S. |
2014 |
Miriam Barlow |
Graduate Intern, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
|
Mufadhal Al-Kuhlani |
Ph.D. |
2013 |
David Ojcius |
Professor of Biology, Fresno City College |
|
Rhondene Wint |
Ph.D. |
2023 |
Mike Cleary |
Bioinformatics Scientist, Mammoth Biosciences |
|
Yuriana Aguilar |
Ph.D. |
2016 |
Ariel Escobar |
Instructor, Rush University |
|
Katherine Amrine |
Ph.D. |
2013 |
David Ardell |
Program Director, Data Scientist Insight Data Science |
|
Paul Barghouth |
Ph.D. |
2019 |
Nestor Oviedo |
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University |
|
Jason Baumsteiger |
Ph.D. |
2013 |
Andres Aguilar |
Sales Manager, Vivint Solar |
|
Clement Laksana |
M.S. |
2020 |
Aaron Hernday |
Senior Research Associate II - Process Dev, Kite Analytical, Kite Pharma |
|
Alicia Blancas |
Ph.D. |
2011 |
Kara McCloskey |
Sr. Research Associate, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
|
Dana Burow |
Ph.D. |
2016 |
Mike Cleary |
Variant Assessment Scientist, Ambry Genetics |
|
Corey Cain |
Ph.D. |
2012 |
Jennifer Manilay |
Scientist, Coda Biotherapeutics, Inc. |
|
Dana Carper |
Ph.D. |
2018 |
Carolin Frank |
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
|
Jiun Chiun Chang |
Ph.D. |
2016 |
Gabriela Loots |
Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF Medical Center |
|
Timothy Connolly |
Ph.D. |
2018 |
Michael Colvin |
|
|
Devon Davidian |
Ph.D. |
2018 |
Nestor Oviedo |
Postdoctoral Scholar, Tufts University |
|
Edwin Gibb |
Ph.D. |
2018 |
Miriam Barlow |
|
|
Liza Gomez Daglio |
Ph.D. |
2016 |
Michael Dawson |
Lecturer, University of California, Merced |
|
Rohit Gupta |
Ph.D. |
2019 |
Fabian Filipp |
Clinical Informatics Specialist, UCSF Medical Center |
|
Joseph Heras |
Ph.D. |
2014 |
Miriam Barlow |
Assistant Specialist, University of California, Irvine |
|
Shu-Chen Hung |
Ph.D. |
2016 |
Kirk Jensen |
Postdoctoral Scholar Stanford University |
|
Larry Johnson |
Ph.D. |
2016 |
Katrina Hoyer |
Senior Scientist, NeoGenomics Laboratories |
|
Dan Landayan |
Ph.D. |
2019 |
Frederick Wolf |
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University |
|
Travis Lawrence |
Ph.D. |
2018 |
David Ardell |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
|
Nicole Madfis |
Ph.D. |
2018 |
Kara McCloskey |
Cardiovascular Tissue Engineer, Cellular Dynamics International |
| Andres Martinez | Ph.D. | 2014 | Miriam Barlow |
Manufacturing Process Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corporation |
| Bridget Martinez | Ph.D. | 2016 | Rudy Ortiz |
Medical Doctor and Postdoctoral Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Portia Mira | Ph.D. | 2018 | Miriam Barlow |
University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow and Chair of Community Engagement, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Anna Nguyen | Ph.D. | 2017 | Patricia LiWang |
QC Analyst, CytomX Therapeutics |
| Seung Bum Park | Ph.D. | 2015 | Jinah Choi |
Postdoctoral Scholar, National Institutes of Health |
| Tanuja Peiris | Ph.D. | 2014 | Nestor Oviedo |
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Buck Institute for Research on Aging |
| Julie Phillips | Ph.D. | 2013 | David Ardell |
Assistant Professor, Cumberland University |
| Ruben Rodriguez | Ph.D. | 2018 | Rudy Ortiz |
Senior Scientist, In Vivo Pharmacology |
| Aimy Sebastian | Ph.D. | 2016 | Gabriela Loots |
Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Simar Singh | Ph.D. | 2018 | Fabian Filipp | |
| Holly Swift | Ph.D. | 2016 | Michael Dawson |
Lecturer, California State University, Monterey Bay |
|
Manish Thiruvalluvan |
Ph.D. | 2018 | Nestor Oviedo |
Biology Lecturer, University of California, Merced |
| Heather Thompson-Ryder | Ph.D. | 2014 | Jennifer Manilay |
Operations Scientist Ventana Medical Systems |
| Max Thorwald | Ph.D. | 2018 | Rudy Ortiz |
Postdoctoral Researcher, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology |
| Johnny Touma | Ph.D. | 2012 | Mike Cleary |
Senior Research Imaging Specialist, Evident Scientific |
| Roger Tseng | Ph.D. | 2016 | Andy LiWang |
Biological Scientist Center for Veterinary Biologics, USDA, Animal and Plant Inspection Service |
| Sabah Ul-Hasan | Ph.D. | 2019 | Clarrisa Nobile |
Postdoctoral Research Associate and Applied Bioinformatics Lecturer, The Scripps Research Institute |
| Kristin Valentine | Ph.D. | 2019 | Katrina Hoyer |
Postdoctoral Scholar, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology |
|
Jose Vazquez-Medina |
Ph.D. | 2013 | Rudy Ortiz |
Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley |
|
Jose Viscarra |
Ph.D. | 2013 | Rudy Ortiz |
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley |
| Yiyan Wang | Ph.D. | 2013 | Meng-Lin Tsao | |
| Emily Wilson | Ph.D. | 2015 | Carolin Frank | |
| Jie Xue | Ph.D. | 2014 | Patricia LiWang |
Research Scientist, Henlix Inc. |
| Cristal Yee | Ph.D. | 2016 | Gabriela Loots |
Scientist, University of California, San Francisco |
| Ye Zhu |
Ph.D. |
2016 |
Florin Rusu |
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Software Engineer, Google |
| Joannee Zumkehr | Ph.D. | 2017 | Frederick Wolf |
Clinical Education Liaison, Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| Sarah Abboud | M.S. | 2016 | Michael Dawson |
Co-Op Developer and Coordinator, California State University, San Marcos |
| Ashley Ahrens-Braunstein | M.S. | 2014 | David Ojcius | |
| James Boulger | M.S. | 2018 | Victor Munoz | |
| Fiona Bui | M.S. | 2016 | Wei-Chun Chin | |
| Heliodoro Cardenas | M.S. | 2014 | Miriam Barlow |
Equipment & Facilities Manager, University of California, Merced |
| Molly Carolan | M.S. | 2014 | Michael Beman | |
| Debra Conte | M.S. | 2011 | Rudy Ortiz |
Adjunct Instructor and Continuing Lecturer, Merced Community College District and University of California, Merced |
| Nicole Corder | M.S. | 2014 | Jinah Choi |
Veterinary Student Univ Tennessee-Knoxville |
| Theo Crouch | M.S. | 2019 | Lisa Yeo | |
| Cristine Donham |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Jennifer Manilay |
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Georgia |
| Evin Doscher | M.S. | 2017 | Miriam Barlow |
Adjunct Professor and Lecturer, Merced College Foundation and UC Merced |
| Craig Ennis |
Ph.D. |
2021 |
Clarissa Nobile |
Senior Scientist, Regel Therapeutics |
| Asa Gardner | M.S. | 2018 | Miriam Barlow |
Adjunct Faculty, Community Colleges in Central Valley/Central Coast |
| Shelley Wang | M.S. | 2013 | Meng-Lin Tsao |
Research & Automation, Bristol-Myers Squibb |
|
Guillermo Vazquez-Anaya |
M.S. | 2016 | Rudy Ortiz |
|
| Maxine Umeh-Garcia | M.S. | 2013 | Mike Cleary |
Instructor, Stanford University |
| Victoria To | M.S. | 2018 | Ariel Escobar | |
| Samantha Splitt | M.S. | 2017 | Kirk Jensen |
Senior Research Associate, Flow Cytometry Precision for Medicine |
| Jessica Saldierna Guzman | M.S. | 2019 | Stephen Hart | |
| Joseph Ramos | M.S. | 2011 | Marcos Garcia-Ojeda | Research Associate, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| Daniel Ramirez | M.S. | 2015 | Nestor Oviedo | |
| Austin Perry | M.S. | 2019 | Clarissa Nobile |
Quantitative & Systems Biology Ph.D. student, University of California, Merced |
| Sharon Patris | M.S. | 2015 | Michael Dawson | |
| Sarah Parkhurst | M.S. | 2017 | Frederick Wolf |
Research Associate, BioIVT |
| Jacqueline Minas | M.S. | 2014 | Rudy Ortiz |
Development Scientist, Bayer HealthCare |
| Kelly Mcclintock | M.S. | 2012 | Andres Aguilar |
Scientist, Roche Sequencing Solutions |
| David Lu | M.S. | 2014 | Wei-Chun Chin |
Biology Systems Engineer II, Roche Sequencing Solutions |
| Jennifer Liberto | M.S. | 2016 | David Ardell |
Associate Specialist I, University of California, San Francisco |
| Andrew Lee | M.S. | 2016 | Rudy Ortiz |
Sr. Research Associate, Inscripta Inc. |
| Eric Lau | M.S. | 2011 | Maria Pallavicini |
Bioservices Specialist, AllCells, LLC |
|
Bhargav Koduru |
M.S. | 2014 | Jinah Choi |
Clinical Statistical Programmer, Seattle Genetics |
| Marcus Ho | M.S. | 2012 | David Ojcius |
Research Associate, XCell Science Inc. |
| Nastaran Abbasizadeh | M.S. | 2022 | Joel Spencer | |
| Julia Alvarez | Ph.D. | 2022 | Kirk Jensen | Assistant Teaching Professor in Medical Education, UC Merced |
| Noelle Anderson | M.S. | 2022 | Scott Roy | |
| Jonathan Anzules | Ph.D. | 2023 | Katrina Hoyer | |
| Eva Cai | M.S. | 2022 | Xuecai Ge |
Teaching Assistant for Developmental Biology, UC Merced |
| Bailey Carlson | M.S. | 2022 | Michael Dawson | Graduate Researcher, UC Merced |
| Nadia Delgadillo Miranda | M.S. | 2021 | Katrina Hoyer |
Graduate Student Intern, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Sona Garsevanyan | M.S. | 2022 | Miriam Barlow | |
| Deepika Gunasekaran | M.S. | 2022 | Clarissa Nobile | |
| Frank Gutierrez | M.S. | 2023 | Michael Beman | |
| Brenda Gutierrez Ruiz | M.S. | 2021 | Ramendra Saha | |
| Nimra Khurram | M.S. | 2023 |
Anand Bala Subramaniam |
|
| Angel Kongsomboonvech | Ph.D. | 2020 | Kirk Jensen |
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University |
| Clarence Le | M.S. | 2023 | Michael Colvin |
Affiliate Researcher, Bioinformatics, Joint Genome Institute |
| Gloria Denise Ligunas | M.S. | 2022 | Stefan Materna | |
| Lesly Lopez Fang | M.S. | 2020 | Emily Jane McTavish | |
| Namkha Nguyen | M.S. | 2022 | Aaron Hernday | |
| Sarina Qin | M.S. | 2022 | Juris Grasis | |
| Andrea Salinas Aguilar | M.S. | 2022 | Carolin Frank | |
| Bailey-J Sanchez | M.S. | 2023 | Rudy Ortiz | |
| Susana Tejeda-Garibay | M.S. | 2021 | Katrina Hoyer | |
| Laura Van Vranken | M.S. | 2020 | Jessica Blois | Aquatic Ecologist, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks |
| Brian Wang | M.S. | 2022 | Federick Wolf | |
| Feng Yu | M.S. | 2022 |
Shahar Sukenik |
|
| Jingyi Zhang | M.S. | 2022 | Xuecai Ge | |
| Lisa Paggeot | M.S. | 2023 | Michael Dawson | |
| Feng Yu | Ph.D. | 2023 | Shahar Sukenik |
Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Fellow (SIBYLS Beamline), Berkeley Lab |
| Christi N Turner | Ph.D. | 2023 |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University |
|
|
Ruihao Li |
Ph.D. | 2023 | Aaron Hernday |
Postdoctoral Scholar in Frank Pugh's lab, Cornell University |
| Clarence Le | Ph.D. | 2024 | Michael Colvin | |
| Austin Perry | Ph.D. | 2024 | Clarissa Nobile | |
| Caleb Larnerd | Ph.D. | 2024 | Frederick Wolf | |
| Susana Tejeda-Garibay | Ph.D. | 2024 | Katrina Hoyer | |
| Nadia Delgadillo Miranda | Ph.D. | 2024 | Katrina Hoyer | |
| Dora Mendez | Ph.D. | 2024 | Rudy Ortiz | |
| Ambarish Varadan | Ph.D. | 2024 | Juris Grasis | |
| Leesa Strasser | M.S. | 2023 | Stephanie Woo | California Department of Fish and Wildlife |
