People
Leadership
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Manuel Leonetti, Ph.D.
Research Director, Cell × State
Team
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Yttria Aniseia
Computational Biologist I
Yttria builds tools and infrastructure for QC and tracking of engineered cell lines. -
Rodrigo Baltazar
Senior Research Associate I
Rodrigo develops human iPSC-derived models and high-throughput quality control approaches to enable scalable studies of how genetic variation and disease-causing mutations shape cellular phenotypes and cell states. -
Madhura Bhave, Ph.D.
Scientist II
Madhura develops high-throughput pipelines to study protein-protein interactions using mass-spectrometry-based proteomics. -
Ryan Bloch
Research Associate I
Ryan engineers and QCs iPSC lines for use in high-throughput screens and disease modeling. -
Leah Dorman, Ph.D.
Senior Computational Biologist
Leah specializes in using single-cell and bulk sequencing analysis to interpret changes in cell states driven by physiological and synthetic perturbations. -
Max Frank, Ph.D.
Computational Biologist II
Max develops models across measurement modalities to understand cellular behavior. -
Taihei Fujimori, Ph.D.
Senior Engineer
Taihei develops high-throughput imaging technologies to screen protein-based perturbations for cell state control. -
Mitzi Guadalupe Hernandez Zamora
Research Associate I
Mitzi works on high-throughput optical pooled screening and proteomics workflows, contributing to immunoprecipitation-based approaches for studying genetic targets and protein-protein interactions. -
Alex Hillsley, Ph.D.
Senior Computational Biologist
Alex develops image analysis algorithms, pipelines, and AI methods, extracting biological meaning from large volumes of high-throughput screening data. -
Camille Januel, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Camille develops human iPSC-derived models through cell engineering at scale to understand how genetic background and disease-causing mutations shape cellular phenotypes and cell states. -
Cassidy Jones
Research Associate II
Cass develops and runs high-throughput optical pooled screens, focusing on building out the screening platform by extending it to new model systems, new classes of perturbations, and a broader set of genetic targets. -
Chad Liu, Ph.D.
Manager, R&D Engineering
Chad helps build scalable, image-based experiment platforms and hopes to expand what’s possible through imaging technologies. -
Lin Luan, Ph.D.
Scientist I
Lin develops live-cell barcode systems to support optical pooled screening, which pairs imaging phenotypes directly with genotype at screen scale. -
Duo Peng, Ph.D.
Manager, Computational Biology
Duo develops computational omics approaches to decode cellular biology at scale, spanning areas such as scalable CRISPR informatics, subcellular proteomics, computational genomics, and AI-enabled biological discovery. Learn more: https://duopeng.github.io -
Yiyun Rao, Ph.D.
Computational Biologist
Yiyun develops computational methods and pipelines for analyzing DNA sequencing and single-cell data, turning molecular datasets into interpretable biological insights. -
Sydney Ripsky
Research Associate II
Sydney develops and scales the optical pooled screening platform, focusing on expanding the platform to new biological systems and perturbation types, and on automating specialized screening workflows. -
Madhurya Sekhar
Senior Research Associate
Madhurya develops and optimizes advanced imaging workflows to study cellular biology at high resolution, focusing on validating tools and building robust experimental approaches for optical pooled screening. -
Gabriel (Gav) Sturm, Ph.D.
Computational Biologist II
Gav develops computational methods to turn internet-scale bioimaging datasets into models for predicting and directing cell behavior. -
Shivanshi Vaid
Scientist I
Shivanshi develops the infrastructure that supports high-throughput pipelines across the Cell x State program, including workflows, trackers, and documentation. -
Klaus Yserentant, Ph.D.
Scientist II
Klaus develops scalable imaging pipelines for maximized information retrieval from multimodal optical pooled screens. -
Zachary Yu
Research Associate I
Zach focuses on culturing iPSCs and iPSC-derived cell types and developing a 10x FLEX-based single-cell RNA sequencing pipeline.
Alumni
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Sophie Bax
Research Associate 2020-2022
M.P.H. candidate, U Michigan -
Rachel Brunetti
Visiting Ph.D. student 2018-2019
Post-doc, UCSF -
Janie Byrum, Ph.D.
R&D Engineer
Now at California Institute for Regenerative Medicine -
Joana Cabrera
Associate R&D Engineer 2019-2021
Ph.D. candidate, UCSF/Berkeley BioE -
Hera Canaj
Research Associate 2018-2020
Ph.D. candidate, Rockefeller University -
Keith Cheveralls, Ph.D.
Software Engineer
CZ Biohub SF Software Engineering Team -
Nathan Cho
Research Associate 2017-2019
Ph.D. candidate, UCSF -
Christian Gnann
Master student 2019
Ph.D. candidate, KTH Royal institute of Technology -
Kodi Harris
Summer intern 2021
Ph.D. candidate, John Hopkins -
Marco Hein, Ph.D.
Science Fellow
Scientist, Max Perutz Labs -
Abimbola Jarvis
Research intern 2019
Chemical Engineer, Intel Corporation -
Tahreem Karim
Research Associate 2021-2022
Cell engineering -
James Kim
Research Associate 2019-2021
Research Associate II, 10x Genomics -
Jason (Yucheng) Li
Research Associate 2017-2019
Software Engineer, Branch -
Shravani Mukherjee
Scientist, 2021-2022
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Preethi Raghavan
Research Associate 2018-2020
Ph.D. candidate, UCSF/Berkeley BioE -
Abhineet Ram
Summer intern 2022
Ph.D. candidate, UC Davis -
Laura Savy
Senior Research Associate 2019-2021
Senior Research Associate II, Monte Rosa Therapeutics -
Edna Stewart
Research Associate 2019-2021
Research Associate, UPSIDE Foods -
Verina Todorova
Research Associate 2021-2023
U. Nevada Reno, School of Medicine -
Madhuri Vangipuram
Scientist I