Maddie Sherlock, PhD

Ginger earned her B.S. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from UCSC in 2025. She conducted undergraduate research in the Stone Lab and Lee Lab, and joined the Sherlock Lab in September 2025 as a Junior Specialist.

Interests: reading, hiking, cooking, and cross stitching

Email: gholmer@ucsc.edu

Jon earned his PhD from the Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology Department at UCSC University in 2015, conducting his thesis research in the Sanford Lab. After a short postdoctoral stint at Stanford, Jon has been fortunate to continue living and working in Santa Cruz in both academic and biotechnology laboratories, joining the Sherlock lab in October 2025.

Interests: traveling, biking, hiking and hanging with my family and dog, Roux

Email: jomhowar@ucsc.edu

Emma earned her B.S. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology with a minor in Bioinformatics from UCSC in 2026. During her undergrad, she conducted research in the Kelley Lab, where she primarily worked on conservation genomics of beaked whales. She joined the Sherlock lab in July 2026.

Interests: knitting/crocheting, baking, and eating froyo!

Email: etashi@ucsc.edu

Ada is earning her B.S. in Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics and is graduating Spring 2027. She joined the Sherlock Lab as an undergrad in January 2026.

 Interests: long walks, legos, reading, and trying new things

Email: adkahlon@ucsc.edu

Nicholai is graduating from UCSC in Spring 2027 with a degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He joined the Sherlock Lab in January 2026.

Interests: baking, cooking, reading, and cats

Email: ngrombch@ucsc.edu