Lab Members

Ben obtained his PhD in 2007 from the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Dr. Phil Hieter in the Department of Biochemistry focused on chromosome segregation and the regulation of kinetochore proteins. He then performed postdoctoral work from 2007-2008 with Elizabeth Conibear (University of...

Rachel Montpetit joined the lab in 2016 following the move to UC Davis and is the go-to person for ordering, lab maintenance, new student training, lab safety, and various other lab needs.

Ryuta joined the lab in 2018 as a postdoc after obtaining his Ph. D in 2018 from the Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan. Ryuta’s previous work focusing on the function of chromatin structure and long non-coding RNAs in transcription regulation....

Pragyan joined the lab in May 2023 as a postdoc after obtaining her Ph.D. in 2019 from Jadavpur University in India and postdoc training from Tel Aviv University in Israel within the laboratory of Dr. Martin Kupiec. Her Ph.D. work...

Arvind joined the lab in 2017 as a BMCDB graduate student. He is fascinated by how all forms of known life evolved to be governed by a common central dogma of gene expression (DNA-RNA-Protein). Currently, his project focuses on understanding...

Theresa joined the lab in 2020 as a BMCDB graduate student. She is interested in better understanding post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression and the role it plays in disease. With her project she hopes to learn more about what drives...

Andrew joined the lab in 2022 as a BMCDB graduate student.

Christian earned his undergraduate degree in Biology with a minor in Mathematical Modeling from Northeastern Illinois University. As a MARC and McNair scholar and as a Society for Developmental Biology Choose Development! fellow, he studied a downstream effector of p53...