TEAM

ARASH KOMEILI

Professor

Education:

Ph.D. Cell Biology, UCSF

B.S. Biology, MIT

Arash became interested in magnetosomes while a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Dianne Newman's laboratory at Caltech. In 2005 he joined the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley where he is now a Professor. He holds an Affiliated Professor position in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, is a faculty of the UC Berkeley Synthetic Biology Institute and a QB3 affiliate.

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VIRGINIA RUSSELL

Postdoctoral Scholar

Education:

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

M.S. San Francisco State University

Research Interests:

Virginia is studying the genes responsible for the irregular bullet shaped magnetite crystals synthesized in Desulfovibrio magneticus RS-1.

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YEIN RA

Ph.D Student

Education:

B.S. University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests:

Yein is interested in how magnetosomes are positioned in Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1.

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JASON KYLE AVALOS

Ph.D Student

Education:

B.S. University of California, Davis

Research Interests:

Jason is interested in the pathways that Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1 uses to interact with and navigate through their environment

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ALYSSA GIMENEZ

Ph.D Student

Education:

BS CSU Long Beach

MS San Francisco State University

Research Interests:

Alyssa is interested in the mechanisms behind how ferrosomes specifically sequester iron after periods of iron starvation and how magnetotactic bacteria prioritize which parts of the cell iron is supplemented to.

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TANSY CHEN

Undergraduate Student

Research Interests:

Tansy is interested in how the presence of magnetosomes impacts magnetotactic bacteria's cell growth and formation of other organelles (e.g. PHB granules).

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