Jonah Frazier 2023- 2025

Jonah graduate from UCR with a Biochemistry major. He joined the lab as RISE scholar and continued to work as a student researcher for two years. His project focused on transcription factor regulation and cell fate commitment. Jonah was supported by the UCOP Cancer Research Traineeship Supplement. He is currently a graduate student at UCSF - Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics program. 

Camille Groneck 2023- 2024

Camille earned her BS in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of Washington. As an undergraduate and post-baccalaureate, she worked in Christine Disteche's lab modeling genetic sex differences in human disease and development. Camille was a junior specialist in the lab and worked on characterizing relationships between stemness and RNA processing machineries. She is currently pursuing her PhD at UCR's CMDB graduate program. Outside of the lab, she likes crocheting and listening to audiobooks.

Shreyans (Archie)Patel
2021- 2023

Archie worked on applying CRISPR-CAS9 technology to study mechanisms of chromatin organizations. Outside the lab, Shreyans was the Vice-President of UCR's Friends of Médecins Sans  Frontières and a Supplemental Instructor for the Academic Resource Center. In his free time, he enjoys playing video games and watching sports. Archie graduated from UCR in Spring 2023 with a major in Biology and is currently an MD student at UCR's School of Medicine. 

Yiming Guo Livelo
2018-2020

Yiming earned her BS degree in Bioscience from Sun Yat-Sen University in China where she studied posttranscriptional regulation of circadian clock in Neurospora crassa. She then completed her MS degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from San Diego State University where she studied rare skeletal muscle diseases. In our lab Yiming focused on the role of CAF-1 in cellular plasticity. Yiming completed her PhD at University of Alabama at Birmingham studying circadian rhythm disruptions in cardiovascular disease. In her free time, she enjoys playing badminton and tennis.

Sarah Miller
2018-2019

Sarah studied the role CAF-1 in embryonic stem cell differentiation during her time as an undergraduate researcher in our lab before receiving her BS in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology from UCR. She is currently studying mechanisms of antibiotic resistance as a research technician at Keck School of Medicine of USC under Drs. Brad Spellberg and Brian Luna. Sarah is currently a graduate student at the UNC Chapel Hill's Biological & Biomedical Sciences Program. Sarah enjoys reading, gardening, and roller skating when outside the lab. 

Jose Luis Orozco 2018-2019

Jose earned his BS in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology with a minor in Biomedical Research from UCLA where he studied a novel family of sterol transport proteins in Dr. Peter Tontonoz lab. As a Junior Specialist in our lab, Jose investigated the role non-coding RNAs in embryonic stem cells and cell fate commitment. Jose is currently an MD student at UC Davis School of Medicine. 

Carmen Chiem
2017-2018

Carmen was the first undergrad to join the lab as a biochem major. Her research focused on the role of CAF-1 in cellular plasticity using ESC and blood progenitor models. In her free time Carmen enjoys training in martial. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sciences from UCR in Spring 2021.