The team
Shahar Sukenik
Principal Investigator
Taking care of business
David Cordone
Graduate Student
Studying inherent tolerance of cells to stress due to desiccation
Eden Vallari
Graduate Student
Investigating how missense mutations associated with monogenic diseases disrupt the structural ensembles and functional properties of IDRs
Joint with the Castañeda lab
True Rappold
Graduate Student
Effects of abiotic cellular changes on transcription efficacy
Jessica Niblo
Postdoctoral Researcher
Using molecular dynamics simulations to understand and design protein sensitivity in different environmental conditions
Kavindu Kolamunna
Graduate Student
High-throughput In vitro studies of IDPs using FRET analysis to explore the effect of patient derived single point mutations on structure-function relationship
Lea Day
Undergraduate Student
High-throughput screening of LEA4 proteins as protective agents against reactive oxidative species
Lab alumni
- Emil Kashua, Summer undergraduate researcher, 2026
- Jacqueline Hammond, CHEM REU student, 2026
- Caleb Kyle, CHEM REU student, 2026
- Celestia Skowronski, Undergraduate student, 2025-2026
- Erin Hattan, Undergraduate Student, 2025-2026
- Sini Shqair, Undergraduate Student, 2025-2026
- Dr. Patrick Koenig, PhD Student, 2020-2026
- Brooke Nichols, CHEM REU student, Winter + Summer 2025
- Dr. Eduardo Flores, PhD Student, 2020-2025, now postdoc at the Salk Institute
- Alexander Truong, Undergraduate Student, 2023-2025
- Aleah Camacho, Undergraduate Student, 2022-2025, now at Capricor TX
- Dr. Karina C. Guadalupe, PhD student, 2018-2024
- Dr. Sofía Romero, Postdoctoral fellow, 2022-2024
- Azeem Horani, PhD student, 2023-2024, now in the Thompson lab
- Alec Martinez, Lab manager, 2022-2024
- Edith Gollub, Undergraduate Student, 2022-2024, now graduate student at UCSD
- Hadrien Lehman, Undergraduate Student, 2023-2024, currently postbac at the NIH
- Matthew Muñoz, REU student, Summer 2024
- Joseph Karuga, Undergraduate student, 2023-2024
- Mary McCoy, Undergraduate student, 2022-2024
- Dr. Feng Yu, PhD student 2018-2023 - Now at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Dr. David C. Moses, PhD student, 2018-2023 - now at Scripps institute
- Ryan Lee, Undergraduate student, 2022-2023
- Jada Marshall, REU student, Summer 2023
- Gagandeep Kaur, Undergraduate student 2022-2023, currently at UCSF
- Nora Margaret Shamoon, Undergraduate student, 2019-2022 - Now graduate student at UC Merced
- Tejveer Bagri, High School student, Summer 2022 - currently at UC Berkeley
- Ralph McAnelly, Research Specialist, 2021-2022
- Estefania Cuevas-Zepeda, Undergraduate student, 2021-2022 - currently at UChicago
- Catherine Nguyen, Undergraduate student, 2021-2022
- Jaspal Mann, Undergraduate student, 2021-2022
- Daniela Navarrete, Visiting Masters student, Fall 2021
- Dianna Liakos, Undergraduate REU student, Summer 2021
- Andres Eduardo Bonilla, Undergraduate REU student, Summer 2021
- Adam Rhetta, Undergraduate student, 2020-2021
- Ashan Lakhani, Undergraduate student, 2019-2020
- Navtej Singh, Undergraduate student, 2019-2020
- Kiefer Deen Villacrucis, High school student, Summer 2019
Join us!
The lab is always looking for motivated, talented individuals!
Projects in the lab tend to be interdisciplinary, and can involve live-cell microscopy, protein biophysics, and/or programming, depending on your interests. If you like what you see, drop Shahar a line. Please indicate why you're interested in joining.