Current RMI Scholars
Sara Amirkiai
2020 – 2021
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Project Title: Identification and characterization of long noncoding RNAs during inflammation.
Faculty Mentor: Susan Carpenter (Carpenter Lab)
Research Mentor: Elektra Robinson
Carlos Arevalo
2018 – 2019, 2019 – 2020, 2020 – 2021
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Project Title: Pan-cancer analysis of driver mutations and modules.
Faculty Mentor: Angela Brooks (Brooks Lab)
Research Mentor: John Akutagawa
Laya Ashley
2020 – 2021
Chemistry
Melica Baboldashtian
2020 – 2021
Human Biology
Project Title: Assessing differential expression across polyA selection and ribodepletion library preparation methods
Faculty Mentor: (Treehouse)
Research Mentor: Holly Beale
Marco Chamorro
2020 – 2021
Bioinformatics
Project Title: Structure-based modeling of peptide-MHC I complexes
Faculty Mentor: (Haussler/Salama Lab)
Research Mentor: Santrupti Nerli
Eduardo Del Rio
2020 – 2021
Bioinformatics
Project Title: Assessing differential expression across polyA selection and ribodepletion library preparation methods
Faculty Mentor: (Treehouse)
Research Mentor: Holly Beale
Darhien Fuller
2020 – 2021
Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
Faculty mentor: (Haussler/Salama Lab)
Research Mentor: Ryan Hoffman
Gifti Gemeda
2019 – 2020, 2020 – 2021
Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics
Project Title: Using a Notch-reporter assay to understand the ability of specific NOTCH2NL alleles to activate Notch signaling
Faculty Mentor: David Haussler/Sofie Salama (Haussler/Salama Lab)
Research Mentor: Gary Mantalas
Ruby Guevara
2020 – 2021
Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
Project Title: The Expression of the Human LL-37 Antimicrobial Peptide Impairs the Detrimental Effect of Beta-amyloid in a Drosophila Model of Alzheimer’s Disease
Faculty Mentor: (Lee Lab)
Research Mentor: Shannon Twardy
Juliana Limon
2020 – 2021
Marine Biology/Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Project Title: The Complete mitogenome of Dascyllus trimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: (Bernardi Lab)
Research Mentor: May Roberts/Darrin Schultz
Daniel Lozano
2020 – 2021
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Duyen Nguyen
2020 – 2021
Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
Project Title: The Expression of the Human LL-37 Antimicrobial Peptide Impairs the Detrimental Effect of Beta-amyloid in a Drosophila Model of Alzheimer’s Disease
Faculty Mentor: (Lee Lab)
Research Mentor: Shannon Twardy
Linh Thuy Nguyen
2019 – 2020, 2020 – 2021
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Project Title: Characterization of a Genetic Suppressor of a Histone H3 Mutations That Perturbs Transcription Elongation in Budding Yeast
Faculty Mentor: Grant Hartzog (Hartzog Lab)
Research Mentor: Grant Hartzog
Serafina Nieves
2019 – 2020, 2020 – 2021
Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics
Project Title: Functional consequences of horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to arthropods
Faculty Mentor: Russ Corbett-Detig (Corbett-Detig Lab)
Research Mentor: Russ Corbett-Detig
Claudia Paz Flores
2020 – 2021
Neuroscience
Project Title: Identifying the functional consequences of human-specific genes on neural networks using organoid models of brain development
Faculty Mentor: (Haussler/Salama Lab)
Research Mentor: Jess Sevetson
Diana Reyna
2020 – 2021
Biochemistry/Chemistry
Project Title: The Human Cell Atlas Initiative
Faculty Mentor: (Haussler/Salama Lab)
Research Mentor: Paola Angulo
Shamari Waller
2019 – 2020, 2020 – 2021
Neuroscience
Project Title: Generation of biomaterials for third generation sequencing and assembly methods
Faculty Mentor: (Haussler/Salama Lab)
Research Mentor: Kristof Tigyi