Current Lab Members
Matt Francis
Principal Investigator
mfrancis (at) berkeley.edu
(he/him)
Preeta Pratakshya
Postdoctoral Researcher
preeta.p (at) berkeley.edu
Ph.D. Chemistry, UC Irvine
(she/her)
Paul Huang
Graduate Student
paulhuang (at) berkeley.edu
B.A. Chemistry, Cornell
B.A. Biology, Cornell
(he/him)
Paige Pistono
Graduate Student
ppistono (at) berkeley.edu
B.S. Biochemistry and Spanish, UW-Madison
(she/her)
Avery Tytla
Graduate Student
avery_tytla (at) berkeley.edu
B.A. Biochemistry, Vassar College
(she/her)
Kate Dolph
Graduate Student
kdolph (at) berkeley.edu
B.A. Biochemistry, Wellesley
(she/her)
Erin McCann
Graduate Student
ecmccann (at) berkeley.edu
B.S. Biochemistry, UW-Madison
(she/her)
Jack Feldner
Graduate Student
jfeldner (at) berkeley.edu
B.S. Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
(he/him)
Jenny Fetzer
Undergraduate Student
Chemistry
(she/her)
Ian Leifer
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Biology
(he/him)
Maria Soracco
Undergraduate Student
Chemistry
(she/her)
Kylee Gao
Lab Manager
kyleegao (at) berkeley.edu
Chemical Biology
(she/her)
Nicholas Dolan
Postdoctoral Researcher
nsdolan (at) berkeley.edu
Ph.D. Chemistry, UC Berkeley
(he/him)
Derek Manuel García-Almedina
Graduate Student
derek.garcia (at) berkeley.edu
B.S. Chemistry, UPR at Rio Piedras
(he/him)
Deborah Zhuang
Graduate Student
deborahzhuang (at) berkeley.edu
B.S.A. Chemistry, UT Austin
B.S. Math, UT Austin
(she/her)
Hannah Martin
Graduate Student
hannah_martin (at) berkeley.edu
B.S. Biochemistry/Chemistry, UCSD
(she/her)
Valerie Jin
Graduate Student
jiajin0307 (at) berkeley.edu
B.A. Chemistry, Bryn Mawr
B.A. Math, Bryn Mawr
(she/her)
Paloma Whitworth
Graduate Student
paloma_whitworth (at) berkeley.edu
B.S. Biochemistry, Gonzaga
(she/her)
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Junyi Xu
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Biology
Data Science
(she/her)
Grant Reskey
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Biology
(he/him)
Vaidehi Dandekar
Undergraduate Student
Bioengineering
(she/her)