PI

Itay Budin
Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Bioengineering, CV
ibudin at ucsd dot edu
Lab members

William Moore
Project Scientist
PhD, UC Berkeley
wmmoore at ucsd dot edu

Nicolas-Frédéric Lipp
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, IPMC-CNRS
nlipp at ucsd dot edu

Israel Juarez-Contreras
PhD student, Biochemistry & Biophysics
MBTG San Diego Fellow
ijuarezc at ucsd dot edu

Daniel Milshteyn
PhD student, Biochemistry & Biophysics
ARCS, Interfaces T32 Fellow
dmilshte at ucsd dot edu

Kailash Venkatraman
PhD student, Biochemistry & Biophysics
MBTG T32 Fellow
kvenkatr at ucsd dot edu

Adrian Wong
PhD student, Chemical Biology
NSF GRFP Fellow
adwong at ucsd dot edu

Kelly Isbell
PhD student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Pfizer Cell Signaling, MBTG T32 Fellow
kisbell at ucsd dot edu

Olivia Seidel
PhD student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
MBTG T32 Fellow
oseidel at ucsd dot edu
Elida Kocharian
PhD student, Biomedical Sciences
Medical Scientist Training Program
ekocharian at health dot ucsd dot edu

Thoi Tran
MS student
thtran at ucsd dot edu
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Hyesoo Kim
Visiting Scientist
Pumpkin Baby, Inc.
hyk021 at ucsd dot edu
Sivani Vedula, Undergraduate Researcher
Inci Alemdaroglu, Undergraduate Researcher
Alumni
Rachel Rosal, Research Associate (2024-2025)
Jacob Winnikoff, Visiting Scientist (2019-2023), NASA Fellow at Harvard University
Yi-Ting (Meli) Tsai, Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2024)
Claudia Espinoza, Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2024)
Openings
For post-doctoral applicants, please contact Itay directly with a CV, a letter of describing your research interests, and contact information for three references.
Interested graduate students from any PhD or MS program at UCSD can contact Itay directly to discuss rotating or working in the lab.
Undergraduate students interested in research internships should contact Itay directly describing their career goals and experience/coursework. Undergraduate internships is dependent on current availability of graduate or postdoctoral mentors.