People

The world of the Heyer eukaryotes currently comprises of 2 project scientists, 4 postdoctoral scholars/fellows, a laboratory manager, and a stream of talented undergraduate students.

PI: Wolf-Dietrich Heyer

Lab manager: Margarita Alexeeva

Project Scientists:

Jie Liu

Shih-Hsun Hung

Post-docs:

Steven Gore

Diedre Reitz

Neelam Maharshi

Suman Dash

Undergraduate Researchers:
Listed by the year they will finish their degree.

2025: Zhiyuan (Jasmine) Jia, Ilana (Lulu) Schloss

Former Members

Former Postdoc Fellows/Scholars:
Listed by the year they left the lab.

2023: Hang Le, João Pedro Vieira Da Rocha

2019: Paula Cerqueira, Pallavi Rajput, Will Wright

2017: Aurèle Piazza

2015: Megan Brinkmeyer, Damon Meyer

2014: Jessica Sneeden

2013: Christopher Ede, Clare Fasching, Xiao-Ping Zhang

2012: Kirk Ehmsen

Former Graduate Students:
Listed by the year they completed their degree.

2022: Ash Jay

2020: Shanaya Shah

2016: Shirin Jenkins

2015: Sucheta Mukherjee

2013: Ryan Janke

Former Lab Technician:

Jorge
Jorge Armando Vaquero (javaquero@ucdavis.edu)

 

Former Undergrads/Volunteers:

Kevin Li

Ben Jacob Mallory (bjmallory@ucdavis.edu)

Jeff Bellinder (jjbell@ucdavis.edu )

Noelle Cabral (nbcabral@ucdavis.edu)

Rudolph Miguel Gallegos (rmgallegos@ucdavis.edu)

Anna
Hanna Yakubi (hyakubi@ucdavis.edu)

Elizabeth Adriana Moreno (eamoreno@ucdavis.edu)

Abou
Abou Ibrahim-Biangoro (aibrahimbiangoro@ucdavis.edu)

Rupleen Kaur (rbkaur@ucdavis.edu)

Rachit
Rachit Mukeshkumar Modi (rmmodi@ucdavis.edu)
Alex
Alexander Sharp (magnesiumdreamz@gmail.com)