Darcy Niu

TITLE: Undergraduate student
EMAIL: dniu0427@nullg.ucla.edu

Biography

I’m a second-year undergraduate at UCLA majoring in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology. My research focuses on how monocytes and macrophages are differentially altered after exposure to immune stimuli.

Maxwell Lee

TITLE: Undergraduate student
EMAIL: maxlee965@nullg.ucla.edu

Biography

I am a second-year undergraduate studying Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology. I am researching epigenetic and signaling changes present during trained immunity.

Julian Gonzalez

TITLE: Undergraduate student
EMAIL: juliang42@nullg.ucla.edu

Biography

I am a second year transfer UCLA student studying Biology. My research involves studying NFkB and MAPK activity in macrophages.

Jaime Pelayo

TITLE: Undergraduate student
EMAIL: jdpelayo@nullg.ucla.edu

Biography

I am a second-year undergraduate student at UCLA, majoring in Computational and Systems Biology. I am interested in integrating computational approaches with biological research.

Vyas Koduvayur

TITLE: Undergraduate student
EMAIL:vyasik@nullucla.edu

Biography

I am an undergraduate student studying computational and systems biology. My research involves analyzing next-gen sequencing data to investigate the mechanisms of IFNy signaling in macrophages, particularly in the context of understanding how initial exposures to the immune system affect future responses.

Aidan Nguyen

TITLE: Undergraduate student
EMAIL: aidannguyen27@nullucla.edu

Biography

I am a second-year undergraduate student studying Statistics and Data Science. My research involves the analysis of scRNA-seq data to uncover critical insights into bone marrow stroma cells, utilizing various computational models with R to classify cell types and understand disease mechanisms. I love to play volleyball and boardgames in my free time!

Vaibhava Kesarwani

TITLE: Undergraduate student
EMAIL: vibhuk703@nullg.ucla.edu

Biography

I am an undergraduate student studying Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology (MCDB). My research involves using wet-lab techniques to generate fate maps for B-cells.

Tiffany Wang

TITLE: Undergraduate student
EMAIL: mailto: tiffwang2704@nullg.ucla.edu

Biography

I’m a third-year undergraduate student studying Computational and Systems Biology at UCLA. My current research is focused on studying protein expression related to the NF-kB pathway through intracellular staining.

Noah Yan

Title: MD/PhD Student
Email: NYan@nullmednet.ucla.edu
Education:
B.S., Molecular and Cellular Biology, Johns Hopkins University (2019)

Biography

I’m an MD/PhD student primarily interested in studying how changes in macrophage signaling affect cellular functions. My clinical interests are in Psychiatry and immune dysregulation in psychiatric illness.

Noa Harriott

TITLE: Graduate student
EMAIL: nharriott@nullg.ucla.edu

Biography

I’m interested in investigating the signaling networks that cells of the innate immune system use to regulate how they respond to the diverse stimuli they encounter.