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Crystal D. Rogers, PhD
(Principal Investigator)
NSF CAREER Awardee (2022-2026)
PhD, Georgetown University (2009)
BS, UCLA (2001)

Current Lab Members
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Tess Leathers
(Graduate Student, BMCDB)

NSF GRFP Awardee (2023-2026)
NIH MCB T32 Fellow (2021-2023)

BS, University of Virginia (2020)

Briani Zhang
(Undergraduate Student)
UC Davis Class of 2023

Camilo Echeverria
(Graduate Student, BMCDB)

NSF GRFP Awardee (2022-2025)
NIH IMSD T32 Fellow (2021-2022)

NIH Post Bac Research Program with Dr. Laura Kerosuo (2018-2019)
Oppenheimer  Awardee (2018)
B.S., CSUN (2018)

Maxim Kawashima
(Junior Specialist)

UC Davis Class of 2022
#ChonkTheAxolotl
Twitter: @ChonkTheAxolotl
The amazing and anomalous axolotl as a research model

Heddy Menendez
(Graduate Student, BMCDB)

College of Biological Sciences Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (2021-2022)
UIC PREP Scholar (2021-2022)
MARC Scholar (2018-2020)
B.S., UC Santa Cruz (2020)

Johnny Vertiz
(Junior Specialist)

CSUN Class of 2022
UC Davis PREP (2022-2023)
B.S., CSUN (2022)
Visiting Summer Researchers
Raneesh Ramarapu
(UC Davis SVM Student)
UCLA Class of 2021

UC Davis STAR Fellow (2022)
B.S., CSUN (2022)

Jessica Pacheco
(Undergraduate Student)
CSUN Class of 2022

UC Davis FACES Fellow (2022)
MJ Marshall
(UC Davis SVM Student)
UC Davis Class of 2021

UC STAR Fellow (2022)
B.S., CSUN (2022)

Hannah Herron
(Undergraduate Student)
Austin College Class of 2025

UC Davis FACES Fellow (2022)
SDB Choose Development Fellow (2022-2023)

“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking"
- Carl Sagan

2022 Rogers Lab
2021 Rogers Lab
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2017 Rogers Lab
2019 Rogers Lab
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2016 Rogers Lab
Oh! The places you'll go!

Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

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Brigette Monroy, PhD (Postdoctoral Fellow)
NSF PRFB Awardee (2021)
PhD, UC Davis BMCDB (2019)

CBS Dean's Mentorship Award (2019)
NSF GRFP Awardee (2014-2017)
NIH IMSD (2013-2014)

B.S. San Francisco State University (2013)

Graduate students

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Colton Baumler
(Graduate Student, BMCDB)
CBS Dean's Mentorship Award (2021-2022)
NSF GRFP
Awardee (2021-2024)
UC Davis PREP (2019-2020)
BS, BA, Concordia St. Paul University (2018)


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Lisa Sorrells, MS
(MS awarded '19)

Clinical Trial Specialist at DOCS Global (2019- )
Bennett-Bickford Biology Scholarship Awardee (2018)
Leslie Family Award Awardee (2017)

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Subrajaa Manohar, MS
(MS awarded '20)
Quality Specialist, Thermo Fisher (2022- )
CSUN BS (Class of 2018)

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Alexis Camacho-Avila, MS
(MS awarded '21)

Kite Pharma (2021- )
CSUN BS (Class of 2019)

SDB Choose Development Fellow (2017-2018)
Sprague Foundation Scholar (2018-2019)

Gorchynski, M.D. Center for Cancer and Developmental Biology
Graduating Senior Award (2019)


Post baccalaureate students

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Carly Adamson
(Junior Specialist)

Connor Christensen
(Junior Specialist)

Baylor College of Medicine Graduate Program (2022-)
B.S., UC Davis (2021)
UC Riverside Graduate Program (2021-)
UC Davis PREP (2020-2021)
B.S., St. Mary's College (2020)

Undergraduate students

Stephanie Jimenez
(Undergraduate Student)
UC Davis Class of 2022

UCLA PhD Program (2022- )
BS, UC Davis class of '22

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 Sasha Machulsky
B.S., CSUN (2020)
UC Davis LEADS (2020)
BUILD PODER (2018-2020)

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Christian Guerzon
San Francisco State MS Program (2021- )
BS, UC Davis class of '21

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Ashley Perez
B.S., CSUN (2021)

Nikolas Morrison-Welch
UNC PhD Program (2021- )
B.S., CSUN (2021)
BUILD PODER (2018-2021)
UC Davis LEADS (2020)

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Jose Chacon
UC San Diego PhD Program (2021- )
B.S., CSUN (2021)
Amgen Scholar (2019)
BUILD PODER (2018-2021)


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Malavika Sugumar
Georgetown University PhD Program (2021- )
B.S., CSUN (2021)
Jocelyn Alfaro
B.S., CSUN (2020)
RISE Fellow (2018-2019)


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Aria Javidan, MPH
B.S., CSUN (2018)
George Washington University School of Public Health
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Alberto Camacho
University of Ottawa Graduate School, Stanford Lab (2019- )
B.S., CSUN (2017)
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Kate Perera
B.S., CSUN (2018)


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Diana Ramirez
BUILD PODER Fellow (ELAC)
Choose Development! Fellow 2018-2019 @ SFSU with Carmen Domingo, PhD
transfer to UC Berkeley 2019

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Daisy Nicolas
B.S., CSUN (2019)

Mary Pilapil
B.S., CSUN (2019)

Research Technician, Dr. Jacob Fleischmann Lab, UCLA/VA
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Brandon Harding
UC Davis School of Nursing (2021- )
B.S., CSUN (2018)
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Natalie Hyde
B.S., CSUN (2018)
Julie Gorchynski MD Center for Cancer and Developmental Biology Undergraduate Research Award (2018)
 
Siri Nalluri
(Undergraduate Student)
UC Davis Class of 2022

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