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)

Sanjana Rajeev

USC WiSE Top-off Fellowship (2021-2023)

MS – University of Texas, Dallas (2018)

BE – BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore (2016)

Khlifa Alnaim

Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission (SACM) Scholarship (2025-current)

MS – King Abdullah’s University of Science and Technology (2022)

BS – Boston University (2020)

María Bustos

NIH/NICHD F31 Fellowship (2025-2029)

USC WiSE Top-off Fellowship (2023-2025)

MS – University of Iceland (2022)

BS – University of Iceland (2020)

Danny Styrpejko

MS – California State University, Fullerton (2022)

BS – University of California, San Diego (2019)

Undergraduate Researchers

Kayla Chuong

Ian Good

Ava Greathouse

Daniela Karnaugh

Emily Shin

Elise Shum

Lab Mascot

Fergus Phillips

Lab Alumni

Alicia Rogers (postdoctoral fellow – 2018-2021)

Current position – Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia (The Rogers Lab)

Shihui Chen (graduate student – 2021-2025)

Celja Uebel (graduate student – 2017-2021)

Current position – Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University (The Uebel 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