TEAM
ARASH KOMEILI
Professor
Education:
Ph.D. Cell Biology, UCSF
B.S. Biology, MIT
Arash became interested in magnetosomes while a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Dianne Newman's laboratory at Caltech. In 2005 he joined the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley where he is now a Professor. He holds an Affiliated Professor position in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, is a faculty of the UC Berkeley Synthetic Biology Institute and a QB3 affiliate.
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VIRGINIA RUSSELL
Postdoctoral Scholar
Education:
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
M.S. San Francisco State University
Research Interests:
Virginia is studying the genes responsible for the irregular bullet shaped magnetite crystals synthesized in Desulfovibrio magneticus RS-1.
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YEIN RA
Ph.D Student
Education:
B.S. University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests:
Yein is interested in how magnetosomes are positioned in Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1.
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JASON KYLE AVALOS
Ph.D Student
Education:
B.S. University of California, Davis
Research Interests:
Jason is interested in the pathways that Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1 uses to interact with and navigate through their environment
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TANSY CHEN
Undergraduate Student
Research Interests:
Tansy is interested in how the presence of magnetosomes impacts magnetotactic bacteria's cell growth and formation of other organelles (e.g. PHB granules).
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SHANNON O'BRIEN
Undergraduate Student
Research Interests:
Shannon works with Virginia on magnetosomes of Desulfovibrio magneticus RS-1.
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Magnemite (Ditto)
Lab Mascot
Research Interests:
Wants everyone in the lab to succeed :)
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