MEMBERS

Principal Investigator
Evgeny is an Assistant Professor at UCI in the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology. Evgeny obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna and the Institute of Molecular Pathology

Sandra Jacinto
Lab Manager
Sandra is our Lab Manager with many years of laboratory experience. Before joining the Kvon Lab, she worked at USC and in Ronald Evans lab at Salk. Sandra received a B.S. in Human Biology and M.S. in Clinical Research from UC San Diego.

Zhuoxin Chen
Postdoc
2022-2023 CMCF Fellow
Zhuoxin is studying non-coding mutations that contribute to morphological changes between different species. Zhuoxin obtained her Ph.D. in bioinformatics from Sun Yat-sen University.

Grace Bower
CMB Graduate Student
NICHD F31 Fellowship
Grace is a graduate student in the Kvon Lab. She graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology.

Ethan Hollingsworth
MD/PhD Student
NINDS T32 Award, NICHD F30 Fellowship
Ethan is an MD/PhD student, focused on understanding how noncoding mutations cause disease. He received his B.S. in Zoology and Neuroscience from Miami University.

Joshua Alcantara
CMB Graduate Student
GAANN Fellow
Joshua graduated from UCI with a B.S. in Human Biology. He has previously worked for the Transgenic Mouse Facility at UCI and HUMANOID CoRE at UCSD. He is studying how mammalian enhancers interact to drive gene expression.

Kaitlyn Cao
Undergraduate Student
Kaitlyn is a Biological Sciences major at UCI. She previously worked at the Scintillon Institute as Summer Research Intern.

Atrin Dizehchi
Undergraduate Student
Atrin is a Biological Sciences major at UCI. He is an Irvine local and he enjoys cars, anatomy, and genetics.

Cindy Chen
Undergraduate Student
Cindy a Biological Sciences major, pursuing a minor in Bioinformatics. I previously worked as a summer research intern at City of Hope's Department of Comparative Medicine.

This could be you
We are looking for highly motivated students and postdocs interested in joining our team. See join us for details.

Taryn Liu
Undergraduate Student (2022-2023)

Sierra Woodall
ACES Summer Student (2022)

Quan Pham
Research Assistant (2020)

Benjamin Clock
Rotation Student (2020)

Katherine Ochoa
Summer Intern (2021)