Lab Members

Shingo Kajimura
Principal Investigator

Chris Auger
Post-doc Fellow

Satoshi Oikawa
Post-doc Fellow

Naofumi Yoshida
Post-doc Fellow

Martin Charles
Lab Manager
Tony Verkerke
Post-doc Fellow

Jin-Seon Yook
Post-doc Fellow

Daisuke Kato
Post-doc Fellow

Dandan Wang
Research Specialist

Yusuke Higuchi
Post-doc Fellow
Tadashi Yamamuro
Post-doc Fellow

Ichitaro Abe
Post-doc Fellow

Melia Granath-Panelo
Graduate Student

Hiroshi Nishida
Post-doc Fellow

Zach Zhao
Graduate Student

Alums

Postdoctoral Students and Fellows Mentored

Qiang Wang, Ph.D.  | 2017 – 2023
Program: Post-doc fellow
Current Position: Principal Investigator at Tsinghua University

Zachary Taxin, M.D., Ph.D. | 2020 – 2022
Program: Medical fellow
Current Position: Instructor in Medicine at BIDMC

Yasuo Oguri, Ph.D. | 2017 – 2021
Program: Post-doc fellow
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Kyoto University, Japan

Haruya Ohno, M.D., Ph.D. | 2011 – 2013
Program: Post-doc fellow
Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Hiroshima, Japan

Si Sonne, Ph.D. | 2012 – 2014
Program: Post-doc fellow
Current Position: Research associate at University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Satoshi Saeki, Ph.D. | 2012 – 2014
Program: Post-doc fellow
Current Position: Group leader at Kirin Pharma.
  
Kana Oyama, Ph.D. | 2012 – 2014
Program: Post-doc fellow
Current Position: Research associate at Ajinomoto Inc.
  
Yutaka Hasegawa, M.D., Ph.D. | 2014 – 2016
Program: Post-doc fellow
Current Position: Assistant professor at Iwate Medical University, Japan
  
Takashi Hosono, Ph.D. | 2015 – 2016
Program: Visiting research fellow
Current Position: Assistant professor at Nihon University, Japan
  
Kosaku Shinoda, Ph.D. | 2011 – 2018
Program: Post-doc fellow
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  
Xiodan Lu, Ph.D. | 2016 – 2017
Program: Post-doc fellow
Current Position: Post-doc fellow at UCSF

Yong Chen, M.D., Ph.D. | 2016 – 2018
Program: Post-doc fellow

Carlos Henrique Grossi Sponton, Ph.D. | 2016 – 2018
Program: Post-doc fellow

Students Supervised and Mentored

Felipe Edaes | 2022 – 2023
Research Student
Current Institution: Universidade de São Paulo

Jake Wong | 2020 – 2022
Lab Manager
Current Institution: Augusta University

Zachary Brown | 2017 – 2019
Lab Manager / Technician
Current Institution: USCF School of Medicine

Curtis Haynes | 2012 – 2012
Program: Summer undergraduate student from Tougaloo College
Current Institution: Tougaloo College

Diana Umene | 2012 – 2012
Program: Medical student
Current Institution: Resident physician at OHSU

Emi Tomoda | 2011 – 2012
Program: Research assistant
Current Institution: Research assistant at UCSF

Svetlana Keylin | 2012 – 2016
Program: DCSB graduate student
Current Institution: Scientist at Genentech

Linet Mera | 2012 – 2014
Program: TETRAD graduate student
Current Institution: Consultant

Louis Sharp | 2011 – 2014
Program: Research assistant
Current Institution: Medical Technician at UCSF

Ineke Luijten | 2013 – 2014
Program: M.S. student from Wageningen University
Current Institution: Post-doc fellow at Stockholm University/The Wenner-Gren Institute, Sweden

Haemin Hong | 2012 – 2014
Program: Research assistant
Current Institution: Florida State University College of Medicine

Annie Yang | 2012 – 2014
Program: Research assistant
Current Institution: Research scientist at UCLA

Qianqian Kang | 2015 – 2016
Program: Ph.D. student from China Agricultural University
Current Institution: Exchange student from China Agricultural University

Pema Maretich | 2015 – 2017
Program: Research assistant
Current Institution: UC Berkeley graduate