Students in Medical School

MD I

David Adamowicz

• Email: dadamowi@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Pennsylvania (2008), B.A. Cognitive Science
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Tau pathology, Alzheimer's disease
• Laboratory Rotation: Fred Gage (SALK, Su '11)
• Thesis Lab: N/A

Eric Geier

• Email: egeier@umail.iu.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Indiana University (2011), B.S. AstronomyPhysics
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Open star clusters, Neuroengineering
• Laboratory Rotation: Don Durden (UCSD, Su '11)
• Thesis Lab: N/A

Angela Ianni

• Email: aianni@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Michigan- Ann Arbor (2008), B.S. Biomedical Engineering
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Schizophrenia
• Laboratory Rotation: N/A
• Thesis Lab: N/A
  

Eric Kramer

• Email: erkramer@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Northwestern (2009), B.A. Integrated Science & Mathematics
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Mathematical models of metabolic networks
• Laboratory Rotation: Lucila Ohno-Machado (UCSD, Su '11)
• Thesis Lab: N/A

Cindy Liu

• Email: yhl016@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Johns Hopkins (2008), B.A. Neuroscience
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Neurogenesis
• Laboratory Rotation: Kuo-Fen Lee (SALK, Su '11)
• Thesis Lab: N/A

Mike Lopez

• Email: mal051@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley (2010), B.S. Bio
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Molecular biology and Bioengineering
• Laboratory Rotation: Kim Prisk (UCSD, Su '11)
• Thesis Lab: N/A

Jessica Meves

• Email: jmeves@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Michigan (2009), B.S. Neuroscience 
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Mechanisms of cognitive impairments 
• Laboratory Rotation: David Welsh/Michael McCarthy (UCSD, Su '11)
• Thesis Lab: N/A

Priya Nayak

• Email: pmnayak@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: CalTech (2011), B.S. Physics
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Characterizing manganese minerals FMR, rock magnetism, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy  
• Laboratory Rotation: V. Ramanathan, Jen Burney (SIO, Su '11)
• Thesis Lab: N/A

Nicholas Protopsaltis

• Email: nprotops@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Saint Louis University (2011), B.S. Biochemistry
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Knock-in model of the PML-RAR and mutation PML-RARa murine model 
• Laboratory Rotation: Dwayne Stupack (UCSD, Su '11)
• Thesis Lab: N/A

 

MD II

Greg Goldgof

• Email: ggoldgof@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University (2009), B.S. Computer Science and Biological
  Sciences, M.S. Bioengineering
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Machine Learning, and Systems Biology
• Laboratory Rotation: N/A
• Thesis Lab: N/A

Cynthia Hsu

• Email: c6hsu@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington (2010), B.S. Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Human Genetics and Neurological Disorders
• Laboratory Rotation: Kang Zhang (UCSD, Su '10)
• Thesis Lab: N/A

Michael Kramer

• Email: mkramer@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Harvard University (2009), B.A. Engineering
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Systems Biology, Computational Modeling of Gene Regulation and Cell Signalling
• Laboratory Rotation: N/A
• Thesis Lab: N/A
• Publications

Espoir Kyubwa

• Email: ekyubwa@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: UCSD (2010), B.S/M.S. Bioengineering
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Systems Neural engineering, Computational Neuroscience, and Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Laboratory Rotation: Gabe Silva (UCSD, Su '10)
• Thesis Lab: N/A

Leo Lin

• Email: l2lin@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University (2003), B.A. Biology
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Cancer, Infectious Disease, and Vaccines
• Laboratory Rotation: Jing Yang (UCSD, Su '10)
• Thesis Lab: N/A

Micah Manary

• Email: mmanary@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: California Institute of Technology (2010), B.S. Biology & History
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Infectious Diseases, Vaccines
• Laboratory Rotation: Sumit Chanda (Sanford-Burnham, Su '10)
• Thesis Lab: N/A

Geoff Weiner

• Email: gweiner@ucsd.edu
• Undergraduate Institution: Lake Forrest College (2008), B.A. Math & Biology
• Graduate Department: N/A
• Research Interests: Neurosciences, Stem Cells, Bioengineering, and Fluorescent Proteins
• Laboratory Rotation: Jerold Chun (TSRI, Su '10)
• Thesis Lab: N/A