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THE TEAM

Oliver I. Fregoso – Principal Investigator 
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​Associate Professor, UCSC
Department of Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Bio
2025 - current


Associate & Assistant Professor, UCLA
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics
2016 - 2025

Postdoctoral Fellow, Fred Hutch 
Division of Basic Sciences, Emerman Lab
2011 - 2016

Graduate Student, Cold Spring Harbor School of Biological Sciences, Krainer Lab
2004 - 2011

Current Members @ UCSC

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Sophie Blanc
MSTP Graduate Student
Co-mentored, Bouhaddou Lab @ UCLA
​2024 - current

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Stephen Nicholson
Research Tech
​2025 - current

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Zachary Rugee
Research Tech
​2025 - current


Previous Lab Members - Graduate and Postdoc

Mohammad Alam, MS
2022-2024
​Currently Scientist II at Thermo Scientific


Carina Sandoval, PhD
2018-2024
​Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at UCI

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Andrew Lopez, PhD
2016-2023
Currently Postdoctoral Scientist at Gilead 
Karly Nisson, PhD
2020-2025
Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University

Randilea Nichols Doyle, PhD
2017-2024
​Currently Senior Scientist at Inograft Biotherapeutics
Vivian Yang, PhD
2020-2025
Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA


Ian Perrone, MS
2017-2018
Currently Associate Scientist at Juniper Bioventures

Previous Lab Members - Research Tech

Rishi Patel 2023-2025


Alexander Salas 2018-2020
Currently Multi-branch Client & Laboratory Manger at CooperSurgical
Andrew Saluna 2021-2024
​Currently MS candidate at CSLA
Donna Li 2016-2019
​Currently PhD candidate at UW Madison

Previous Lab Members - Undergraduate Researchers

Kailyn Kuo, 2023-2024
UCLA class of 2026

Joseph Privratski, 2021-2023
​UCLA class of 2023

Andres Rodriguez, 2018-2021
​UCLA class of 2021

Alex Salas, 2016-2018
UCLA Class of 2018
Esmeralda Rivera, summer 2023
UCR class of 2024

​Jenifer Nunez, 2021-2023
​UCLA class of 2023

Niko Shamlin, 2019-2020
UCLA Class of 2020

Cole Oost, 2016-2018
​UCLA Class of 2019
Rishi Patel, 2021-2023
UCLA Class of 2023

Ada Okereke, 2021-2023
​UCLA class of 2023

Ariel Floro, 2018-2019
​UCLA Class of 2019
University of California, Santa Cruz
Department of Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Bio

NIH NIAID
NIH NIDA

Burroughs​ Wellcome Fund
​Keck Foundation

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