Former Lab Personnel

		Kayo Arima - Kayo received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. She is trained in nutrition, molecular biology and oenology. She worked on characterizing Xenopus RAR target genes from 2002-2005. She is now a Specialist at UC San Diego.
		Sean Gavigan - Sean received his Ph.D from the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, UK. He worked on the biology of BXR in development from 2002-2003 and left the lab in Sept 2003 for a new career as a technical writer
		May Hussein - May worked on the biology of the benzoate 'X' receptor from 1999-2000. She left the lab in March of 2000. Most recently, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Milan Jamrich's laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine.
		Yu Katsuyama - Yu received his Ph.D. from Tokyo Metropolitan University. He is experienced in Ascidian and Xenopus development and worked on the role of retinoid signaling in anteroposterior patterning. He is now an Assistant Professor at Kobe University, Kobe Japan.
		Matt Milnes - Matt received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida where he worked with Lou Guillette. Matt worked on species-specific regulation of SXR and the feedback regulation of the HPA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal) axis by steroids and the role of chemical stress in modulating this process. He left in fall 2006 to take a position as staff endocrinologist a the San Diego Zoo Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species.
		Rong Niu - Rong obtained her Ph.D. from Nagoya University Medical School, Japan. She worked on identifying RAR target genes during development from 2000-2002.
		Jisong Peng - Jisong received his Ph.D. from Fudan University, in Shanghai, China. He worked in the lab from 2002-2004 on constructing normalized, full-length cDNA libraries from the emerging vertebrate model organism Xenopus tropicalis.
		Jason Shiotsugu - Jason received his Ph.D from the University of Connecticut. He is working on the molecular interactions between RAR and FGF signaling in early embryonic patterning. He left in 2007 to join the Office of Research at UCI.
		Jihwan Song - Jihwan worked on developing methodology for making normalized, full-length cDNA libraries from 1999-2000. He left our lab in January of 2000 and is now an Assistant Professor at Pochon Cha College of Medicine in Seoul Korea.
		Aixu Sun - Aixu received his M.D. degree from Tongji Medical University, China. He worked on the role of SXR in mediating the metabolism of known and suspected endocrine disrupting chemicals in a variety of model organisms. Aixu is now a Project Scientist in Ken Cho's laboratory here at UCI
		Michelle Tabb - Michelle got her Ph.D. right here at UCI. She worked on the role of SXR in breast cancer and endocrine disruption. Michelle was responsible for solving all of the really difficult problems in the lab, we call her "The Cleaner". Michelle left for a position in industry in December 2005.
		Ranga (Nathan) Venkatesan - Ranga worked on the biology of BXR in Xenopus and mammalian development. He left the lab in September 2001 and is now a postdoc at the University of Washington, Seattle.

		Margaret Archer - Margaret received her BS and MS degrees here at UCI. She worked together with Felix to identify environmental agents responsible for the outbreak of deformed frogs in North America. She left the lab in August 2001 to get married.
		Deborah Craig - Deborah received her BA at the University of San Diego with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry. She worked on the Xenopus tropicalis cDNA library project and left the lab in January 2003 to be a high school science teacher.
		Sarah Daijogo - Sarah worked in our lab from 1998-2002 on a variety of projects, including identifying SXR homologs from model organisms and generating full length RAR-RXR heterodimers for our molecular interaction screening system. She started graduate school at UCI in September 2002 and is working in Bert Semler's laboratory.
		Amanda Dick - Amanda received her BS here at UCI and worked in the lab under the auspices of the PREP program in 2005. When last sighted, she was working in technical support for InVitrogen.
		Jody Errandi - Jody received her MS from the University of Illinois and worked with Michelle on SXR as a potential target for breast cancer treatment and bone development. She left the lab in September 2003 to direct clinical trials for W.L. Gore and Company and is now in a similar position at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach.
		Adriana Garcia - Adriana received her BS here at UCI and is working together with Michelle on SXR as a potential target for breast cancer treatment and as a moderator of xenobiotic metabolism. She joined the lab in September 2003 and left for grad school in Spring 2005.
		Mark Gray - Mark worked on implementing the molecular interaction screen - a new approach to functional genomics. He left the lab for graduate school in December 2002.
		Emily Grossman - Emily continued working the lab after graduating in June 2006 with Honors. She worked together with Matt on the regulation of the HPA axis by steroids and chemical stressors and on the role of SNPs in the activation of SXR by xenobiotics.
		Ritika Khandpur - Ritika graduated from UCI in Spring 2003 as a Biological Sciences major with a specialization in Cell Biology. She worked together with Jason and Kayo on the role of nuclear receptors in Xenopus development. Ritika left for medical school in summer 2004.
		Tanaz Korami - Tanaz worked as the laboratory manager from 2001-2004. She graduated in 2004 with a degree in International Studies aiming for Law School. She is now working for the Department of Justice.
		Lauren Maeda - Lauren received her BS from UC Santa Barbara. She joined the lab in Summer 2004 and workedg together with Felix on how xenobiotic metabolism differs among populations and between humans and animal models. She is now a medical student at the University of Hawaii.
		Katsuyuki Murase - Katsu worked in our lab in 2001 on the automated molecular interaction screening system. He is now a graduate student in the Chemical Biology Program here at UCI doing his Ph.D. studies in Greg Weiss' lab.
		Hang Pham - Hang is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley who worked together with Michelle on the role of SXR as a potential target for breast cancer prevention and treatment in 2003. She left the lab in August 2003 to focus on medical school admission.
		Trang Pham - Trang worked in the lab from Fall 2007-Winter 2008 together with Felix on the activation of RAR and RXR by candidate pharmaceutical compounds.
		Bridget Riggs - Bridget received her BS at UC Davis, with a dual major in Genetics and Mathematics. She worked on developing normalized full-length cDNA libraries from Xenopus tropicalis. Bridget left the lab in June 2002 for graduate school at UCLA.
		Walid Sabbagh - Walid worked with Bruce at the Salk Institute from 1996-1998 then came here to UCI. He started graduate school in September 1999 in Lee Bardwell's lab here at UCI.
		Melodie Seto - Melodie is a senior double majoring in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. She worked as the lab manager from 2004-2005.
		Gaurav Sharma - Gaurav received his BS at Austin College and worked on the biochemical assays supporting our cDNA library development effort. He left for pharmacy school in December 2001
		Christine Sloan - Christine worked in the lab from Sept 1999-2000. She left the lab to take a technical position at ICN Pharmaceuticals and was last sighted in San Diego, working in industry.
		Christy Trejo - Christy worked in the lab as part of the PREP program on the identification of SXR-specific antibodies and siRNA-mediated knockdown of SXR protein expression. She left to start graduate school at UCSF in fall, 2006.

		Ben Christofferson - Ben worked together with Felix on the characterization of environmental retinoids from Minnesota deformed frog sites in the 2000-2001 academic year. He left the lab in Spring 2001.
		Naman Dalal - Naman is a junior BioSci major working together with Suman on the inhibition of breast cancer cell proliferation by SXR activators. He worked in the lab during the 2007-2008 academic year.
		Daniel Diamond - Danny worked together with Johnny on the molecular pathways through which TBT influences obesity in the 2007-2008 academic year.
		Kellie Edwards - Kellie is a senior BioSci major who worked together with Michelle on the role of SXR in the proliferation of breast cancers in Fall 2003.
		Julie Fernandez - Julie worked in our lab during summer 2002 together with Yu on the role of RAR signaling in Xenopus development. She is now a student in the Masters in Biotechnology program here at UCI
		Emily Grossman - Emily worked in the lab from 2005-2006, together with Matt on the regulation of the HPA axis by steroids and chemical stressors and on the role of SNPs in the activation of SXR by xenobiotics. She is now a graduate student at UCSD.
		Shirley Guan - Shirley worked in the lab during the summer of 2003 between her junior and senior years of high school. She worked in the lab from 2005-2007 and worked on the computational prediction of SXR ligands in collaboration with Pierre Baldi's laboratory.
		Danny Hemmati - Danny was a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry major who graduated in December 2001. He worked on the role of SXR in metabolizing known and suspected endocrine disrupting compounds and is now a dental student at UCLA.
		May Hsu - May worked in the lab from 2001-Fall 2002 with Felix on indentifying environmental agents that affect amphibian development
		Kameran Johnson - Kameran was a Senior Developmental and Cell Biology major working on understanding the role of SXR in the proliferation of breast cancer stem cells. Kameran joined the lab in Spring 2007 and graduated in Spring 2008.
		Lan Li - Lan was a BioSci major who worked in the lab in Fall and winter 2006 together with Junichi and later Jason.
		Cody Long - Cody worked in the lab from Winter-summer 2004. He worked together with Jason on bioinformatic analysis and functional testing of the Xcad3 promoter in Xenopus embryos and is now aiming for Pharmacy School.
		Linda Majors - Lindi worked in the lab from Jan 2005 through June 2006 together with Ben to better understand the regulation of RAR target genes during early vertebrate development.She graduated in 2006 and is now working in the Morrissette lab as part of the PREP program.
		Mayra Martinez - Mayra worked in the lab from summer 2003-Fall 2004. She worked with Kayo and Jason on the identification and characterization of RAR target genes in Xenopus embryos.
		Leah Parilla - Leah worked together with Jason on the interactions between RAR and FGF signaling pathways in patterning the Xenopus pre-placodal ectoderm from summer 2007 until graduating in Spring 2008.
		Amee Patel - Amee worked with Rong to identify RAR target genes and with Bruce and Bridget to make high density macroarrays from Xenopus laevis. She left the lab in Winter 2002 to focus on graduating early.
		Karla Perez - Karla worked together with Felix to characterize the RAR agonist from deformed frog sites in Minnesota and Canada from 2000-2001. She graduated in 2001 and is working in industry.
		Tran Pham - Tran is a junior BioSci major who joined the lab in fall 2004. She is working together with Suman to understand the role of SXR in the prevention and treatment of breast cancers.
		Win Phyu - Win worked in the lab during Fall 2006 and Winter 2007, together with Jason on identifying the molecular details underlying the mutually negative interactions between RAR and FGF signaling pathways.
		Rand Relatores - Rand worked together with Felix on the role of TBT in regulating glucocorticoid homeostasis as related to adipocyte differentiation. Rand joined the lab in Fall 2006 and left after Spring 2008.
		Kimberly Romero - Kim joined the lab in summer 2002 and worked with Aixu on the role of SXR in osteoporosis and with Bruce on the species-specific metabolism of EDC in model organisms. She started graduate school at UCI in Fall 2003.
		Asal Sadatrafiei - Asal joined the lab in 2001. She worked on a variety of projects, most recently with Changcheng on the differential metabolism of xenobiotic compounds by SXR among humans and between humans and model organisms. She graduated in 2004 and is attending UCSF Pharmacy school.
		Jennifer Sumcad - Jennifer majored in BioSci and English. She worked on identifying novel ligands for the estrogen related receptors from 2001-2002.
		Ana Vargas - Ana worked on characterizing Xenopus retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 with Felix and identifying novel RAR target genes with Rong. She graduated in 2001 and was last sighted in Optometry School.
		Olivia Wu - Olivia is a junior BioSci major who joined the lab in fall 2004. She is working together with Jason on the role of RAR signaling in patterning the vertebrate anteroposterior (A-P) axis.
		Chetman Yu - Chetman worked in the lab from 2006-2007 together with Felix on high throughput screening using novel compound libraries developed here in the UCI chemistry department.
		Zamaneh Zamanian - Zamaneh worked in the lab from fall 2003-spring 2005. She worked together with Felix on the role of organotin compounds as environmental obesogens in vertebrate development.

		Becky Chang - Becky worked in the lab during the 2000-2001 academic year.
		Mouy Chea - Mouy worked in the lab during the 2001-2002 academic year.
		Rasmy Chhun - Rasmy worked in the lab from 2001-2003.
		Angie De Luca - Angie worked in the lab from Feb 2001-April 2002.
		Vickie Geraghty - Vickie worked in the lab during the 1998-1999 academic year. She worked as a high school teacher, attended graduate school briefly and is now working in personnel management in San Diego.
		Forough Ghavami - Forough worked in the lab during the 2001-2002 academic year.
		Natalie Graham - Natalie worked in the lab from Feb-Oct 2001.
		Candice Harrison - Candice worked in the lab during summer and fall 2004.
		Noshin Khoja - Noshin worked in the lab during the 1998-1999 academic year.
		Mark Marshall - Mark worked in the lab during the 2003 academic year.
		Uyen Nguyen - Uyen ijoined the lab in Summer 2004 and worked until graduating in 2005. She is now in pharmacy school in Michigan.
		Judi Perez - Judy worked in the lab during 2006.
		Aaronshawn Poolsaad - Aaron worked in the lab in 2005-2006, helping out with the general lab duties.
		Yalda Rezaimehr - Yalda worked in the lab from spring 2003-fall 2004 and is now planning on attending Medical School.
		Phraeophan Suthipinijtham - Pal worked in the lab from September 2000-May 2001.

		Courtney Alexander - Courtney rotated in the lab during fall 2006 and worked together with Jason on the interaction between RAR and FGF signaling pathways.
		Allison Baxter - Allison rotated in our lab in fall 2003, working together with Jason on the identification of BXR target genes using microarray analysis. Allison graduated from U.C. Santa Barbara.
		Julie Brown - Julie graduated from UC Santa Barbara and rotated in the lab in Winter 2005. She worked with Changcheng on the interactions between SXR and NF-kB signaling pathways and the activity of Vitamin E derivatives on SXR.
		Junran Cao - Junran got her undergraduate degree at Nankai University in China. Her rotation project in fall 2001 was to complete the functional characterization of the Xenopus BXRb receptor.
		Stephanie Casey - Stephanie rotated in the lab during Winter 2007, working together with Felix on the role of SXR in inflammatory homeostasis in the lung. She joined the lab in July 2007.
		Curtis Daly - Curtis joined the lab in January 2004 and worked on the molecular interaction screen - a new approach to functional genomics. He left the lab in Sept 2004 for a new career in sales.
		Albert Do - Albert rotated in the lab during Spring 2006. He worked on the identification of SXR target genes using DNA microarray analysis.
		Monica Eberhard - Monica got her BS here at UCI. Her rotation project in summer 2001 was to isolate and characterize SXR homologs from several vertebrate model organisms.
		Adriana Garcia - Adriana received her BS here at UCI and worked together with Michelle on SXR as a potential target for breast cancer treatment and as a moderator of xenobiotic metabolism. She joined the graduate program in Spring 2005.
		Kristine Glauber - Kristine rotated in the lab during fall 2007, working together with Severine on the TBT-obesity project.
		Ben Huang - Ben got his BS in Engineering at the University of Texas, MS at North Carolina State University and JD at Duke University. He rotated in the lab during summer 2004, working together with Jason and Kayo on the role of BXR and RAR signaling in early A-P patterning.
		Shannon Jessen - Shannon graduated from UC Riverside and rotated in the lab during Winter 2005.
		Dai-wei Lin - Da-wei rotated in the lab during Winter 2008, working together with Felix on the structure-function relationship between TBT and RXR binding.
		Lisa McMath - Lisa rotated in the lab during fall 2006 and worked together with Felix and Johnny on the TBT-obesity project, continuing the work started by Denise in the summer.
		Alyssa Olguin - Alyssa got her BS and MS degrees from Cal State Fullerton. Her rotation project in fall 2001 was to aid Felix in identifying the environmental agent responsible for frog deformities in North America
		Ning-yuan (Claire) Su - Claire got her BS and MS degrees from National Taiwan University. Her rotation project in fall 2001 with Yu was to work on characterizing the interactions between FGF and RAR signaling pathways.

		Girisha Colleary - Girisha was a UCSD student who worked with Bruce in summer 2001 on the biology of the Xenopus orphan receptor Nurr1 under the auspices of the UCLEADS program.
		Shirley Guan - Shirley worked in the lab during the summer of 2003 between her junior and senior years of high school together with Changecheng and Asal to identify SXR target genes. She started at UCI in January 2005.
		Devin Horton - Devin graduated from Tuskegee University with a degree in Biology. She worked together with Felix during summer 2003 on the characterization of the coral ERRx. Devin started graduate school at the University of Michigan in Fall 2003
		Tiffany Hsu - Tiffany worked in the lab during summer 2007 as an American Cancer Society summer research fellow. She worked together with Kameran on the role of SXR in the proliferation of breast cancer stem cells and continued in the lab for most of the 2007-2008 academic year.
		Toni Lee - She worked together with Felix while she was a high school junior and senior on identifying a novel thyroid axis agonist found in water from a site in Montana in summer 2001 and cloning SXR from several vertebrate species in summer 2002. She started as a freshman at UCLA in September 2002.
		Janet Lee - Janet worked together with Changcheng in the summer of 2001 on the bioinformatic analysis of SXR target genes in breast cancer cells. She started her undergraduate studies at Yale in fall 2002.
		Monica McCallum - Monica worked in the lab from summer 2006-2007 under the auspices of an American Cancer Society program to promote student research experience as a senior at Los Alamitos High School. She entered UCI as a freshman in October 2007.
		Kristin Moosman - Kristin worked in our lab during summer 2001 while she was an undergraduate at U.C. Berkeley. She worked together with Yu to understand how retinoid and growth factor signaling pattern the Xenopus embryo.
		John Nguyen - John was a Troy High School student who worked together with Melodie in Summer 2004 on high density arraying of plasmid DNA.
		Seema Shah - Seema is a UCLA undergrad who worked together with Felix and Lauren in Summer 2004 on the deformed frog problem.

		Hea Ja Baek - Hea Ja is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marine Biology, Pukyong National University in Busan, Korea. Her area of interest is Fish Reproductive Endocrinology. She worked on species-specific metabolism of EDC by SXR.
		Andrés Carrasco - Andrés is our collaborator from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. We are working together on the role of retinoid signaling in neuronal patterning and differentiation.
		Junichi Nishikawa - Junichi received his Ph.D. from Osaka University where he was an Associate Professor. He jworked in the lab during 2006 on the interaction between SXR and NF-kB signaling pathways. He has since returned to Kobe, Japan.

		Ben Huang - Ben got his BS in Engineering at the University of Texas, MS at North Carolina State University and JD at Duke University. He joined the lab in January 2005 and left in June 2006 to return to practicing law.
		Tetsuya Koide - Tetsuya worked in our lab from 1999-2001 on the role of retinoic acid receptors in anterior neural patterning. He received his Ph.D in 2001 and joined Ken Cho's laboratory at UCI as a postdoctoral fellow in June 2001. Tetsu is now a scientist at RIKEN in Saitama, Japan.
		Changcheng (Albert) Zhou - Changcheng worked on the differential regulation of SXR expression and the interactinon between SXR and NF-kB signaling. He received his Ph.D in 2004 after only 4 years in the lab and is now a postdoc at Rockefeller University.

		Takahiro Tanabe - Takahiro graduated from UCI and joined the lab in Sept 2004. He is working together with Jessica on identifying single nucleotide polymorphisms in the SXR gene.
		Jessica Taylor - Jessica received her JD from Tulane University. She joined the lab in Sept 2004 and worked together with Takahiro on identifying single nucleotide polymorphisms in the SXR gene.

		Denise Stephens - Denise rotated in the lab in summer 2006 and worked together with Felix and Johnny on the role of TBT in promoting adipocyte differentiation. She joined the lab in July 2007.
		John Ycaza - Johnny rotated in the lab during summer and fall 2005 and worked on several projects with Felix and Matt. He received a BS from Cal State LA. He joined the lab in spring 2006.