DNA TEAM

FACILITY DIRECTOR

Hitomi Asahara has a Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology from SUNY at Albany and post-doctoral training at UC Berkeley with a research focus on enzymes involved in DNA repair and replication. She has been with the DNA sequencing facility since 2003 and has extensive experience in the operational management of technical facilities as well as a research lab.

STAFF RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Brian McCarthy has a B.A. degree in Biological Sciences with an emphasis on Ecology from UC Santa Barbara and worked as a technician in the Chevron Environmental Chemistry Laboratory before joining the facility in 2002.

Julie Vargas has a B.S. in Biology from UCLA. She has worked on projects in psychiatric genetics, familial intrahepatic cholestasis, and muscular dystrophy.

Juan Carlos Diaz has a Ph.D. in Biosciences from Rice University. He has studied the resistance and adaptation to anticoagulants in commensal rodents in the USA.

Michelle Davila has a B.S. degree in Zoology from San Francisco State University.

UNDERGRADUATE LAB ASSISTANTS AND INTERNS

Katie Fang

Cassidy Biellak

Anya Kishida

Dexter Watenpaugh

Amy Yang

Mallak Ali

Olivia Xu

Sophia Xu

Jessica Chen

FACULTY DIRECTOR

Prof. Nicholas Ingolia