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MEMBERS

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Ethan Hollingsworth

MD/PhD Student

NINDS T32 AwardNICHD 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.

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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.

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Kaitlyn Cao

Undergraduate Student

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

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Atrin Dizehchi

Undergraduate Student

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

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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.

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This could be you

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

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Taryn Liu

Undergraduate Student (2022-2023)

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Sierra Woodall

ACES Summer Student (2022)

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Quan Pham

Research Assistant (2020)

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Benjamin Clock

Rotation Student (2020)

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Katherine Ochoa

Summer Intern (2021)

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