Team

Catherin DeSousa
PhD Student
Metabolic Biology

James Mbata
PhD Student
Molecular & Cell Biology

Xinyi Yang
PhD Student
Metabolic Biology

Jorge Holguin
PhD Student
Metabolic Biology

Chessa Park
Undergraduate Researcher
UC Berkeley

Jasmine Young
Undergraduate Researcher
UC Berkeley

Simran Keertipati
Undergraduate Researcher
UC Berkeley

Rachel Sang
Undergraduate Researcher
UC Berkeley

Amberly Xu
Undergraduate Researcher
UC Berkeley

Megan Kober
PhD Student
Metabolic Biology

Denis Titov
Principal
Investigator
LAB ALUMNI
Name (Years in Lab)
Alex Ekvik (2020-2026)
Jocelyn Chacon (2025)
Bowen Yang (2020-2025)
Wanyi Zhu (2024-2025)
Lynn Zhang (2022-2025)
Matt Kukurugya (2020-2025)
Brandon Ha (2024-2025)
Luke Thomas (2024)
Priyanka Joshi (2020-2024)
Derik Liu (2022-2024)
Mangyu Choe (2018-2024)
Ajoy Thamattoor (2023-2024)
Shimin Zhang (2022-2024)
Pearl Zhou (2019-2022)
Lance Li (2021)
Sungjin Kim (2019-2021)
Carter Chan (2018-2020)
Steven Chen (2018-2020)
Isabella Lee-Rubio (2018-2019)
Position
PhD student
Undergraduate Researcher
PhD student
Undergraduate Researcher
Undergraduate Researcher
PhD student
Undergraduate Researcher
Undergraduate Researcher
Postdoctoral Fellow
Undergraduate Researcher
Postdoctoral Fellow
Master’s Student
Undergraduate Researcher
Undergraduate Researcher
NSF REU Summer Students
Project Scientist
Undergraduate Researcher
Undergraduate Researcher
Undergraduate Researcher
Next position
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Research Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern
Research Associate, Gladstone Institutes
Research Associate I, Codexis, Inc.
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Assistant Professor at Chungnam National University
Data Research Analyst, UCSF
Undergraduate at UC Berkeley
Undergraduate at UC Berkeley