October 2024
Opportunities
Openings are available for graduate students enrolled in UC Berkeley PhD programs. We are not accepting direct admission students at this time.
Summer openings for UC Berkeley undergraduates are available via the following form: https://forms.gle/TRn5W74U4dEyAT227. For openings during the semester, look for openings on URAP.
Please email: mstaller [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Assistant Professor in Residence
Max Valentín Staller, PhD
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Center for Computational Biology
Max’s lab experience began with Sean Connolly and Jorge Benach at Stony Brook University. Max graduated from Princeton University with a major in Molecular Biology and a minor in Quantitative and Computational Biology, completing a senior thesis with David Botstein. Max completed graduate studies in the Systems Biology program at Harvard University, where he worked with Angela DePace. Max pursued his postdoctoral work at Washington University in St. Louis working with Barak Cohen and Rohit Pappu. Outside of lab, Max enjoys hiking, skiing and cooking.
Por qué uso la bandera vieja?
En mi oficina esta colgada la bandera Venezolana de mi abuelo. Mi abuelo, Valentín Hernández Acosta trabajó para el gobierno de Venezuela durante muchos años. Él fue quien como ministro de Petróleo y Minas nacionalizó la industria petrolera en Venezuela en 1976. Para honrar esa parte de la historia de mi familia, colgué la bandera Venezolana en mi oficina. Yo no apoyo al gobierno de Maduro ni el legado de Chávez, por eso uso la antigua bandera, la de mi abuelo Valentín.
Caitlin Carmody
Caitlin is a Postdoc investigating the functional effects of variants of uncertain significance in activation domains of autism associated transcription factors. Caitlin loves artificial frosting and celcius.
Aditya Udupa
Aditya is a PhD candidate in MCB. In his free time, he enjoys drinking smoothies and playing basketball.
Marissa Zintel
Marissa is a PhD student in MCB interested in synthetic activation domains in yeast. Marissa loves strawberries and climbing. She is also unequivocally the best pickleball player in the lab.
Scarleth Chalen Ulloa
Scarleth is a PhD student in MCB studying serine rich activation domains. She is the only lab member able to keep a plant alive.
Claire LeBlanc
Claire is a PhD student in CCB studying activation domain evolution in yeast. She enjoys running and thinks that Lilo and Stich is the best movie ever.
Jayden Wang
Jayden is a PhD student in MCB studying activation domain motifs and transcription factor multimerization. Jayden has two leopard geckos and thinks that east coast pizza is far superior to Berkeley pizza.
Sanjana Kotha
Sanjana is junior specialist in the lab, studying ASD variants of uncertain significance in TFs. Sanjana is the only lab member to have won the Ticketmaster war and attended the Eras tour.
Darren Kahan
Darren is a PhD student in Biophysics at UC Berkeley, working with Susan Marqusee.
Vinson Fan
Vinson is a Postdoc using single molecule tracking to study the chromatin association of transcription factors.
Pooja Agarwal
Pooja is a rising third year student majoring in Computer Science and Molecular Biology at UC Berkeley.
Daniel Aguilera
Daniel is a rising third year in the lab majoring in molecular and environmental biology.
Lab Alums
Jordan Stefani, 2021-2023, Software Developer, 10x Genomics
Kimber Benasutti, 2021-2024, PhD student at Washington State
Elisabeth Thomsen, 2023, PhD student at University of Copenhagen
Emily Chase, 2022-2025, PhD student at UC San Diego
Margot Galle, 2022, PhD student at VIB-VUB CSB
Undergraduates
Daniel Lopez UC Berkeley 2021
Gurleen Kaur UC Berkeley 2023
Giovani Pimentel-Solorio UC Berkeley 2023
Angelica Lam UC Berkeley 2023
Ananya Bahugudumbi UC Berkeley 2024
Adi Vunnum UC Berkeley 2024
Samhith Kakarla UC Berkeley 2025
Joel Castro UC Berkeley 2026
Touss Majidi UC Berkeley 2025
Melvin Soriano UC Berkeley 2024
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