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James Nuñez, PhD
Assistant Professor, MCB
jamesnunez[at]berkeley.edu
James is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley and an Investigator of Biohub San Francisco. Previously, he was a postdoc fellow with Jonathan Weissman at UCSF and earned his PhD with Jennifer Doudna. James is interested in all things CRISPR and chromatin biology.
James has been recognized as a Hanna Gray Fellow of HHMI, Pew Biomedical Scholar, Sloan Research Fellow, Bakar Fellow and a Vallee Foundation Scholar Award. Outside the lab, you will likely find James on a tennis court or outdoors on his bike or hiking boots.
contact: jamesnunez[at]berkeley.edu
Nikita Divekar, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Da Xu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Luis Galán Palma, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Izaiah Ornelas
PhD Student, MCB
Rithu Pattali
PhD Student, MCB
Joint with Jennifer Doudna
Anna Christenson
PhD Student, MCB
Jinna Brim
PhD Student, MCB
Ngan Phan
PhD Student, MCB
Kaitlin Kelly
PhD Student, MCB
Sabrina Richter
PhD Student, MCB
Justin Lubin
PhD Student Collaborator,
Computer Science
Peter Colias
Junior Research Specialist
Bernardo Moreno
Junior Research Specialist
Joint with Gokul Upadhyayula
José de Jesús Navarro Barba
Undergraduate Researcher, MCB
Sophia Ferrel
Undergraduate Researcher, MCB
Alex Chang
Undergraduate Researcher, MEB
Jesus Coria
Undergraduate Researcher, Neuroscience
Janette Valderrama
Undergraduate Researcher, MCB
Justin Chuck
Undergraduate Researcher, MCB
Enzo Benetti
High School Researcher
Andrea Nuñez
Administrative Assistant
Alumni
Undergraduate students
Anatori Prieto (now PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University)
Ted Llera (McNair Scholar; now PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Paulina Rios (Summer Amgen Scholar; now PhD Student at MIT)
Michelle Adutwum (Summer UCSF SSRP/CIRM Scholar, now college student at Johns Hopkins University)
Lily Baulete (Summer intern, UC Davis)
Eric Bass (Amgen Scholar)
Jason Tello (REU summer scholar, UC Merced)
Jerry Roberts
Anisha Shukla
Mitzi Hernandez (Now research associate at Biohub San Francisco)
Abby Rivera-Gu (SSRP/CIRM Scholar, now college student at Johns Hopkins University)
Jameel McDaniel (Summer researcher, college student at Howard University)
Carolyn Nguyen (Now MPhil student at Churchill College/Cambridge University)
Research Associates
Scarleth Chalen Ulloa (now PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Visiting Scholars
Marco Klanschnig (PhD Student at Universität für Bodenkultur Wien)
Anne Saxonov (High school student researcher, now college student at Harvard University)
Swen Besselink (Master's Student at Radboud University, now PhD student at Netherlands Cancer Institute)
Daniella Starr (High school student researcher, now college student at Columbia University)
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