People

 

Raquel Chamorro-Garcia, PhD
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedicine
Universidad Autonoma of Madrid (Spain)

Email: rchamorr@ucsc.edu

Lab Location: PSB 487
Office Location: PSB 440
Office #: 831-459-2445

 

Carlos Diaz-Castillo, PhD
Associate Researcher
Ph.D. Biochemistry
Universidad Autonoma of Madrid (Spain)
Email: cdiazcas@ucsc.edu

Carlos is interested in understanding mechanisms of biological variation. Learn more about Carlos’ research here

 

 

Stephanie Aguiar
Graduate Student
PBSE ProgramMCDB track
Email: saguiar@ucsc.edu

Stephanie’s project aims to determine the mechanisms through which paternal exposure to environmental factors leads to multigenerational effects.

 

 

Daniel Davis
Graduate Student
PBSE ProgramMETX track
Email: daddavis@ucsc.edu

Daniel is interested in deciphering the role of ovarian somatic cells in modulating the oocyte before fertilization and how environmental exposures can alter them leading to multigenerational disease

 

 

Amanda Process
Junior Specialist
Email: aprocess@ucsc.edu

Amanda is interested in better understanding gene-environment interactions and how the genomic diversity found in human populations lead to different responses to environmental exposures.

 

 

Ewan Whittaker-Walker
Master’s Student
Email: ewhittak@ucsc.edu

Ewan brings his background in computational biology. He is interested in better understanding whether different environmental factors lead to disease via similar mechanisms of action.

 

Truman Natividad
Undergraduate Researcher
Summer 2022 Intern from the UCSC ACCESS program
Email: tnativid@ucsc.edu

 

Peyton Quijano
Undergraduate Researcher
Email: prquijan@ucsc.edu

 

FORMER LAB MEMBERS

Maya Skinner, Undergraduate volunteer, 2023
Stephanie Bazarini, Rotation student, Spring 2022
Chelsea Contreras-Valencia, Undergraduate student
Kalin Nagle, Undergraduate student
Gabriela Flores, Summer intern from the UCSC ACCESS program, summer 2021
Gio Vega, Rotation student, Fall/Winter 2020. Now in the Patnode Lab
Catherine Palmer, Rotation student, Fall 2020. Now in the Kimmey Lab
Tiffany Kluber, Undergraduate Student, Year 2021
Prithvi Singh, Undergraduate Student, Year 2020. Now in Biotech
Tiffany Thisner, Rotation student, Winter 2020
Lizett Gonzalez, Rotation student, Winter 2020. Now in the Yildiz Lab