CIRM Graduate Scholars
Poornima Kolhar
Ruoslahti laboratory and Mitragotri laboratory, BMSE Program
Studies synthetic surfaces for human embryonic stem cell culture.
Misty Riddle
Rothman laboratory, Dept. of MCDB
Investigates developmental potential and cell fate reprogramming by exploiting the highly accessible functional genomics of
C. elegans.
Teisha Rowland
Clegg laboratory, Dept. of MCDB
Investigates the effects of extracellular matrix proteins on human embryonic stem cell and induced pluripotent stem cell differentiation into retinal pigment epithelium.
Former CIRM Postdoctoral Scholars
Minseon Cho
Soh laboratory, Dept. of Materials & Mechanical Engineering
High-throughput discovery of affinity reagents for hESC markers
Oran Erster
Daugherty laboratory, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Engineers conditionally-activated antibodies for site-specific recognition of cancer stem cells.
Eunjoo Lee
Kosik laboratory, Dept. of MCDB
Studies the function of non-coding RNAs in the stem cell differentiation.
Former CIRM Graduate Scholars
David Buchholz
Clegg laboratory, Dept. of MCDB
Investigates directing hESC differentiation to a retinal pigment epithelial fate.
Nareg Djabrayan
Rothman laboratory, Dept. of MCDB
Investigates the genetic mechanisms behind the switch from pluripotency to
committed differentiation in the C. elegans embryo.
Former CIRM Postdoctoral Scholars
Qirui Hu
Clegg laboratory, Dept. of MCDB
Investigates the reprogramming of human somatic cells to pluripotent cells.
Min-Jeong Kye
Kosik laboratory, Dept. of MCDB
Studies the function of microRNA in the neural differentiation of hESCs.
Yanli Liu
Soh laboratory, NRI and Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Studies the in vitro selection of aptamers for transforming growth factor beta using microfluidic-SELEX.
Na Xu
Kosik laboratory, Dept. of MCDB
Studies the microRNA regulation of stem cell differentiation and fate determination.