Principal Investigator
Carolyn M. Phillips
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
PhD – University of California, Berkeley (2007)
BS – University of California, Davis (2001)
PhD Students
Dylan Wallis
NIH T32 Chemistry-Biology Interface trainee (2020-2022)
USC DIA Fellowship (2019-current)
BS – Temple University (2017)
Jenny Zhao
BS – University of California, Los Angeles (2017)
Shihui Chen
USC Endowed Fellowship (2024-2025)
USC Gold Fellowship (2023)
BS – Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2020)
Sanjana Rajeev
USC WiSE Top-off Fellowship (2021-2023)
MS – University of Texas, Dallas (2018)
BE – BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore (2016)
Khlifa Alnaim
MS – King Abdullah’s University of Science and Technology (2022)
BS – Boston University (2020)
María Bustos
USC WiSE Top-off Fellowship (2023-2025)
MS – University of Iceland (2022)
BS – University of Iceland (2020)
Undergraduate Researchers
Dongzhe Wei
Lab Mascot
Fergus Phillips
Lab Alumni
Alicia Rogers (postdoctoral fellow – 2018-2021)
Current position – Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, Arlington (The Rogers Lab)
Kevin Manage (graduate student – 2016-2021)
Current position – Medical Science Liason at Natera
Dieu An Nguyen (graduate student – 2016-2021)
Current position – post-doc with Andrea Cochran at Genentech
Celja Uebel (graduate student – 2017-2021)
Current position – post-doc in The Villeneuve Lab, Stanford University