Flor is a graduate student working on malaria transfection techniques.

Peter is a graduate student in UCSF Bioinformatics Program. He is currently working on various viral genomic projects.

Sarah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dermatology at UCSF and American Cancer Society/Canary Foundation Fellow. Sarah is pursuing research in the DeRisi and Ganem labs. She is currently investigating the relationship between skin cancer and viruses.

Nathan is a graduate student in UC Berkeley's Immunology and Infectious Disease program. He is co-mentored by UCB professor Eva Harris. The focus of his work is on Dengue-like diseases in Central America.
Division of Infectious Disease & Vaccinology UCBerkeley

Alex is an MD/PhD student at UCSF. He is working on the discovery of viral pathogens for a broad range of human and animal diseases.

Sharon Chao is a Bioengineering graduate student working on ultra-high throughput sequencing, methods of viral particle purification, and herpes virus identification technologies.

Michelle Dimon is a Biomedical Informatics graduate student working on mechanisms of antigenic switching in malaria and RNA metabolism.

Katherine Sorber is a member of the Tetrad graduate program and is studying mechanisms of RNA metabolism in malaria.

Chris is a graduate student in the Biomedical Science program at UCSF. He is currently studying the life cycle of Plasmodium falciparum.

Graham is a postdoctoral fellow working on the discovery of novel viral pathogens by deep sequencing.

Emily is a research technician that is working on high throughput drug screening for malaria

Victoria Newman is a Tetrad graduate student studying mechanisms of resistance to quinoline-based drugs in malaria and yeast.

Charles is a graduate student in the Tetrad program at UCSF. He is currently studying recombination in enteroviruses.

Amy Kistler is a postdoctoral fellow working on the discovery of viral pathogens in a broad range of human and animal diseases. Amy is co-mentored by Dr. Don Ganem

Charlie received his PhD from Stanford (lab of Stan Falkow) and is now a Giannini Fellow. He is currently studying the immune response to malaria infection in a mouse model.

Polly Fordyce received her PhD from Stanford (lab of Steve Block) and is now a postdoctoral researcher working on malaria gene regulation and transcription factors. Polly is currently a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellow.
Click here to visit The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

Manny is a research analyst level II who is currently working with the DeRisi and Weissman laboratories.

Tara is lab manager and logistics coordinator for the DeRisi laboratory. She is responsible for scheduling, managing outside collaborations, vendor relations and day to day lab operations.

Sajeev Batra is a scientific programmer working on mouse genomics and works closely with the labs of Antia Sil, Jeff Cox, Dan Portnoy, and Denise Monack.

Maxine was the first technician to be hired to work on the Virus Chip project. She is now a graduate student at UC Davis.

Terry Minn, originally from Burma, was hired as a technician to help set up our malaria program in early 2001. Terry graduated from medical school in New Jersey and is currently practicing in Antioch, CA.
Terry Minn, MD

Nicole was a postdoctoral fellow working on the discovery of viral pathogens for a broad range of human and animal diseases. She now heads her own research group at the Universitatsklinikum Hamburg - Eppendorf where she continues her work on XMRV, a novel gammaretrovirus. You can visit her lab here:
Nicole Fischer's Research Group

Yu-Tsueng, or "YT" as he was known in the lab, participated in the early phases of the Virochip project and also helped during the SARS episode. YT subsequently was hired at UC San Diego where he is an assistant project scientist in the medical genetics program. Visit his site here:
YT at UCSD

Zbynek, or "ZB" to folks in lab, was instrumental in booting up our malaria culture system, including the use of bioreactors for growth of P. falciparum. ZB was also became famous at UCSF after burning down a tissue culture hood. After our malaria transcriptome paper was published in PLoS Biology, ZB was hired by Nanyang Technolgical University in Singapore where he is currently an assistant professor.
ZB Lab Page in Singapore

Mary Kate Alexandar was a postdoctoral fellow originally in Barbara Panning's lab, and then in the DeRisi lab where she worked on CQ resistance in malaria. She is now a researcher at Genentech.

David graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and joined the Don Ganem's laboratory in 1998 as a postdoctoral fellow working hepatitis and KSHV. Dave then began a long collaboration with the DeRisi Lab to pursue viral discovery in a broad range of human diseases. David is currently an Assistant Professor at Washington State University in St. Louis.
David Wang's lab page at WashU

After graduating from UBC and completing his residency training in Toronto, Patrick conducted a two year post doc in the laboratories of Drs. Don Ganem and Joseph DeRisi at UCSF where he studied viruses in various malignancies. Patrick is currently an Principal Investigator at the BC Centre for Disease Control.
Patrick Tang's lab page at BC Centre for Disease Control

Jennifer Gerton earned her PhD with Patrick O. Brown at Stanford University and then did a postdoc with Tom Petes. She continued her postdoctoral work at UCSF in the DeRisi Lab. Jennifer worked on a variety of meiosis related projects and was subsequently hired by the Stowers Institute. You can visit her lab here:
The Gerton Lab at the Stowers Institute

Holly Bennett did her undergraduate work at University of Washington, Seattle. Holly worked with Joe at Stanford in the late 90s and then worked for Rosetta. She later came back to work with Joe at UCSF as the first employee in the lab. She was instrumental in setting up the lab and launching the malaria work. Last we heard, she was living in Santa Barbara.

Kael Fischer served as the lab scientific programmer working on computational and experimental methods associated with our viral discovery efforts. He secured a faculty position at the University of Utah in 2008.

Mathew Miller pursued his postdoctoral research in the DeRisi lab as a Damon Runyon fellow. He now works at a local biofuel company.

Dale was a member of the Biomedical Informatics program and earned his PhD in 2008. He was immediately hired by Pacific Biosciences, a deep sequencing startup company.
Pacific Biosciences

Charles Chiu was a Molecular Medicine Fellow and has since become a faculty member in the department of Lab Medicine here at UCSF. He was also hired as the Director of the Viral Diagnostic and Discovery Center, based at China Basin, near Mission Bay.

Ally was a staff research assistant. She participated in many of our drug screening efforts and is now taking classes in preparation for a career in pharmacy.

Silvi was a staff research assistant that worked on our viral discovery project. In Fall of 2008, Silvi joined the Tetrad graduate program here at UCSF.

Takeshi graduated in the summer of 2007 and was a member of the MSTP program (Tetrad). He led a heroic effort to characterize and purify transcription factors from Plasmodium falciparum. He is currently back in the clinic here at UCSF.

Jenny graduated from the DeRisi Lab in June 2008. Her thesis worked was focused on mRNA decay in Plasmodium falciparum. Shortly after graduating, Jenny was hired by the biofuels startup company Codexis.
Codexis.com

Manuel graduated from UC Berkeley and joined the DeRisi Lab as a postdoctoral fellow in 2001. During his postdoc, Manuel worked on gene regulation in both Plasmodium falciparum and yeast. He now is an assistant professor at the Lewis Sigler Institute for Genomics at Princeton University.
Manuel Llinas Laboratory

Jenni Weissman graduated from Stanford University and joined the DeRisi lab and the lab of Dr. Fred Cohen (co-mentor) in 2003. Jenni received a AP Giannini Fellowship and she worked on various anti-malarial drug screening projects and methodologies. She is now pursuing policy work in Washington DC.

Anatoly Urisman was a member of the MSTP and Biomedical Sciences (BMS) graduate program. He graduated in 2005 and has since returned to the clinic to finish his MD degree. Anatoly helped pioneer our virus chip technology and worked on a variety of projects in this area, including E-Predict, XMRV, and SARS.

Adam Carroll earned his PhD in the lab of Erin O'Shea at UCSF. After graduating, Adam became the first director of the UCSF Center for Advanced Technology (CAT). Adam successfully managed and evolved the CAT into its present day form. He is now an employ at:
Bend Research

Ashwini joined the Tetrad program after working on yeast meiosis at Harvard. She briefly continued in this area when she was Jennifer Gerton's rotation student. After joining the DeRisi lab, she worked closely with Kelley Sheppard and Ron Vale to characterize mRNA transport in yeast. After graduating, joined Angelika Amon's lab at MIT where she studied sporulation. She is now a postdoc in Mike Blower's lab at MIT.

Brian Pulliam was originally hired by the DeRisi Lab to help construct a new microarray database, called NOMAD. During his time in the lab, Brian contributed to several projects, including significant work on the malaria transcriptome paper. Brian is due to graduate from the biophysics program at Harvard in 2008, after which he plans to work at a nonprofit.

Dara Friedman graduated from Ron Vale's laboratory here at Stanford and became the DeRisi Lab's first ever postdoc. She worked on methods to isolate membrane associated polysomes in malaria. Dara went on to work at the CDC, and then to the equivalent organization in Canada.

Edith Wong earned her PhD from UC Davis and joined the DeRisi Lab soon afterward to work on malaria. She worked on CGH methods for comparing falciparum genomes on arrays. She is now employed at:
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Genome Database

George Ngondi completed a certificate program in the DeRisi Lab working on metagenomics and human disease. He is currently an assistant professor at -- University, Kenya.