Recent Graduates

2011

Todd Aguilera

• Email:  taguiler@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution:  University of Portland, BS, Biology, 2003
• Graduate Department:  Biomedical Sciences
• Thesis Title: Activatable cell penetrating peptides and their use in clinical contrast agent and therapeutic development
• Thesis Lab:  Roger Tsien
• Postgraduate Education:  Internal Medicine, UCSD Medical Center; Radiation Oncology, Stanford Medical Center
• Publications

Viengngeun Bounkeua

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• Undergraduate Institution:  University of New Mexico, BS, Biochemistry, 2001
• Graduate Department:  Biomedical Sciences
• Thesis Title: Plasmodium sexual development and the role of Plasmepsin X in plasmodium falciparum transmission to Anopheles gambiae
• Thesis Lab:  Joe Vinetz
• Postgraduate Education: Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama
• Publications

Nicole Coufal

• Email:  ncoufal@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution:  UC Berkeley, BA, Neurobiology  & Cognitive Sciences, 2000
• Graduate Department:  Neurosciences
• Thesis Title: Evidence for L1 retrotransposition in the human nervous system
• Thesis Lab:  Fred Gage
• Postgraduate Education:  Pediatrics, UCSD Medical Center
• Publications

Neekesh Dharia

• Email:  NDharia@mednet.ucla.edu
• Undergraduate Institution:  University of Iowa, BS; BA, Biochemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics; Asian Studies, 2003
• Graduate Department: Kellogg School of Science and Technology, The Scripps Research Institute
• Thesis Title:  Plasmodium evolution and drug resistance in vitro and in populations using whole genome technologies
• Thesis Lab:  Elizabeth Winzeler 
• Postgraduate Education:  Pediatrics, UCLA Medical Center
• Publications

Lauge Farnaes

• Email:  lfarnaes@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution:  UC San Diego, BS/MS, Biology, 2000
• Graduate Department:  Marine Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
• Thesis Title:  Novel analogs and a protein target for the napyradiomycins
  Thesis Lab:  William Fenical
• Postgraduate Education:  Pediatrics, UCSD Medical Center
• Publications

Yousuke Horikawa

• Email:  yhorikaw@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution:  UC Irvine, BS, Neurobiology, 2003
• Graduate Department:  Biomedical Sciences
• Thesis Title:  The role of  caveolin-3 in cardiac protection and hypertrophy
• Thesis Lab:  David Roth/Paul Insel
• Postgraduate Education:  Pediatrics, UCSD Medical Center
• Publications

Karla Malloy

• Email: klmalloy@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution:  Duke, BS; BA, Chemistry; African Studies, 2003
• Graduate Department:  Biomedical Sciences
• Thesis Title:  Structure elucidation of biomedically relevant marine cyanobacterial natural products
• Thesis Lab:  William Gerwick
• Postgraduate Education:  Internal Medicine; Scripps Green; La Jolla
• Publications

Lee Schroeder

• Email: leefschroeder@gmail.com
• Undergraduate Institution:  University of Pennsylvania, BA, Physics, 1996
• Graduate Department:  Neurosciences
• Thesis Title:  An in vivo biosensor for neurotransmitter release and in situ receptor activity: Acetylcholine and the M1 muscarinic receptor
• Thesis Lab:  David Kleinfeld
• Postgraduate Education:  Pathology, Stanford Medical Center
• Publications

Manuela Schuksz

• Email: mschuksz@gmail.com
• Undergraduate Institution: UC San Diego, BS, Biochemistry/Cell Biology, 1999
• Graduate Department: Biomedical Sciences
• Thesis Title: Small molecule interactions with heparan sulfate
• Thesis Lab: Jeff Esko
• Postgraduate Education:  Vascular Surgery, University of Massachusetts, Worchester, MA
• Publications