McCormick Lab Members

Current Members

• Sheila McCormick, Principal Investigator, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia
  CV / on vacation in the British Virgin Islands, 2002 / on vacation in England, 2003
• Leonor Boavida, postdoc (from January, 2006), Ph.D., Univ. Lisbon, CV, Leonor at Grand Canyon
• Yan Zhang, postdoc (from January, 2006), Ph.D., Max Planck Inst. for Plant Breeding
  CV / on vacation in Budapest
• Mily Ron, postdoc (from March, 2006), Ph.D., Tel Aviv Univ.
  CV / Mily in Half Moon Bay / Mily in Naples
• Yue-Feng Guan, postdoc (from September, 2008), Ph.D., Shanghai Inst. Plant Physiol. and Ecology CV/ Yuefeng in Arizona
• Ming Xu, visiting professor (from July, 2009), Ph.D. Shenyang Agricultural Univ.
• Binglian Zheng, postdoc (from August, 2009), Ph.D. Inst. Genetics and Dev. Biol., CAS, Beijing
• Peng Qin, visiting Ph.D. student (from September, 2009), Sichuan Agricultural Univ., Chengdu, China
  

  Undergraduate Research Apprentices (http://research.berkeley.edu/urap/) Fall 2009

  • Kimberly Barnash
  • Miranda Broz
  • Louis Chen
  • Peter Chukwu
  • Aimee Farria
  • Raymond Gong
  • Hugo Hua
  • David Huang
  • Chih-Han Lee
  • David Lee
  • Sam Leiboff
  • James Pao
  • Daniel Park
  • Julia Wei

  Former Members and their current locations

  Postdocs

  • Virginia Ursin, Staff Scientist, Monsanto, Mystic, CT
  • Rod Wing, Professor, Univ. Arizona
  • David Twell, Professor, Univ. Leicester, UK
  • Guy Vancanneyt, Staff Scientist, Bayer Crop Science, Belgium
  • Debu Basu, Senior Lecturer, Bose Institute, Calcutta, India
  • Salma Talhouk, Assoc. Professor, Amer. Univ. Beirut, Lebanon
  • Jorge Muschietti, Professor, Univ. Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Cathy Curie, Directeur de Recherche, CNRS, Univ. Montpellier, France
  • Yoram Eyal, Scientist, Volcani Center, Israel
  • Susan Gorman, law firm, San Diego
  • Keith Hamby, R&D Director, BioRad, Hercules, CA
  • Lori Dircks, Scientist, Biotech company
  • Hyun Uk Kim, postdoc, Washington State U.
  • Peter Dodds, Scientist, CSIRO, Australia
  • Bauke Ylstra, Professor, Univ. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Jean-Louis Magnard, Maitre de Conferences, Univ. St. Etienne, France
  • Mineo Senda, Assoc. Professor, Hirosaki Univ., Japan
  • Inés Ezcurra, Assoc. Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Zaure Aytasheva, Dept. Chair, Inst. Genetics, Almaty, Kazakhstan
  • Ming Yang, Assoc. Professor, Oklahoma State
  • Sung Han Ok, postdoc, Korea University, Korea
  • Wei-hua Tang, Professor, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology
  • Pulla Kaothien, postdoc, Nara Inst. Science Technology, Japan
  • Michele Engel, Asst. Professor, Univ. Colorado at Denver
  • Rachel Holmes-Davis, Scientist, Biotech company
  • Bin Shuai, Asst. Professor, Witchita State University
  • Heping Yang, Senior Scientist, Monsanto
  • Rajsree Mungur, TBA
  • Huanzhong Wang, postdoc, Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK
  • Monica Alandete-Saez, postdoc, UC-Davis
  • Jun-min He, Assoc. Professor, Shaanxi Normal Univ., Xi'An, China

  Technicians

  • Judy Yamaguchi
  • Dawn Banasiak, Genetic Counselor
  • Rima Kulikauskas, SRA, U.Washington
  • Robyn Cotter, Xoma, Berkeley
  • Sheila Johnson, Instructor, Dominican U. of California, San Rafael, CA.
  • Dior Kelley, postdoc, UC-San Diego
  • Stephanie Kiriakopolos, graduate school, SF State
  • Navpreet Kaur, medical school, Dublin, Ireland
  • Teresa Mok, pharmacist
  • Tina Tran, pharmacy school, Arizona
  • Waichoi Shek, BioRad

  Graduate students

  • Yun-Chia Sophia Chen, Ph.D. 1997, Associate, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
  • Sheila Johnson-Brousseau, Ph.D. 2007, Instructor, Dominican U. of California, San Rafael, CA

  Undergraduates (Fall 2001-Spring 2009)

  • Alex Agelidis 2007-2008
  • Lauren Bartlow 2001-2003
  • Leslie Carter 2007
  • Parisa Chavoshi 2007
  • Connie Chen 2002
  • Lilian Chiang 2002
  • Kenny Chung 2007
  • Allison Clark 2007
  • Alicia Clum 2005-2006
  • Peter Conte 2001
  • Catey Coppini 2006-2007
  • Dan Dengrove 2002
  • Zoya Derebenskiy 2007-2008
  • Prasadi Edirippulige 2005-2006
  • Kathryn Fang 2002-2003
  • Ying Feng 2006
  • Lindsay Finger 2003-2004
  • Cynthia Foust 2003
  • Emily Fox 2007-2008, graduate school, UCSF
  • John Gahagan 2005-2006
  • Shan Girn 2009
  • Alex Guo 2005-2006
  • Gunjan Goel 2003
  • Feny Gunawan 2002-2003
  • Amy Hassenberg 2008-2009
  • Tracy Hoang 2002
  • Iris Huang 2005-2006
  • Carolyn (Miaoqi) Jin 2009
  • Korey Kassir 2006
  • Navpreet Kaur 2004, medical school, Dublin, Ireland
  • Clara Kim 2001-2002
  • Jessica Kim 2005-2006
  • Hanjun Kim 2007
  • Diana Lac 2003-2004
  • Alix LaCoste 2007
  • Vision Lan 2006-2007
  • Colleen Lau 2006-2007, SRA, Scripps Inst.; Columbia U. graduate.school, fall 2009
  • Duong Le 2001-2002
  • Truong Le 2007-2008, George Washinton U., graduate school, fall 2009
  • Jungsun Lee 2005
  • Christopher Leong 2004-2005, grad. school, UC-Davis
  • Raymond Lew 2006-2007
  • Kitty Hoi Yan Li 2005-2006
  • Judy Liu 2007
  • Michael Liu 2005-2006
  • Sarah Liu 2008-2009
  • Doris Lo 2004-2005, pharmacy school, USC
  • Lina Ma 2007
  • Laura Mahoney 2007-2008
  • Mayuka Matsumoto 2005
  • Michelle Meador 2004-2005, pre-dentistry program, SF State
  • Kate Messer 2003
  • Megha Miglani 2002
  • Emi Minijima 2003-2004
  • Siu Wai Mok 2004-2005, pharmacist
  • Maria Mouchess 2003, grad. school, UC-Berkeley
  • Sophie Mukadam 2002
  • Vivian Ng 2003-2004, med. school, UCLA
  • Eric Suang Pang 2004, grad. school, UCLA
  • Sungkook Park 2004
  • Priti Patel 2003
  • Frazier Phillips 2009
  • Nishant Prasad 2002-2003
  • Cary Opel 2002
  • Tanida Rojchanakasetchai 2007
  • Jamison Smith 2008
  • Elizabeth Story 2001-2002
  • Tyson Torres 2006-2007
  • Jeffrey Tsao 2002-2003, grad. school, Yale
  • Shruti Vora 2006
  • Marian Wahba 2008-2009, research assistant, NIH
  • Isabelle Walrand 2005-2006
  • Jason Wexler 2006-2007
  • Maple Wong 2004
  • John Yoon 2006-2007
  • Yuan-Sheng Yu 2006
  • Zara Zelenko 2006

  Undergraduates (Pre-2001)

  • Ryan Alfonso 1987-1988
  • Audrey Bersot
  • Michael Chan 1987, M.D.
  • Carolyn Choi
  • Kitty Cheung
  • Maureen Cyrot 1992-1994
  • Katherine Fang
  • Cecilia Fairley 1990-1993, genetic counselor
  • Nikkisha Faulcon
  • Laura Franciosi 1989
  • Cherine Fu 1992-1994
  • Keith Fukanaga
  • Elise Grenier 1993-1994
  • Paul Guth 1994
  • Lee Harris
  • Rachel Holmes 1988-1990
  • Andrew Hou 1994-1995
  • Dennis Hsueh 1992-1994
  • Gayle Hunter 1991-1993, artist
  • Ruzaik Ibrahim, M.D.
  • Connie Kim
  • Sooneui Kim 1994-1995
  • Roger Kirkpatrick
  • Su Larabell 1987-1989, genetic counselor
  • Elisha Larez
  • Duong Le
  • Sumi Lee
  • Michele Leary
  • Muriel LeBlanc
  • Jimmy Leung
  • Joy Liang
  • Margaret Liu 1995
  • Zoli Lundy
  • Hemlata Mistry 1992
  • Roy Nattiv
  • Dan Nguyen 1993-1994
  • Charlotte Nussbaum
  • Adeline Seah, grad. school, Cal Tech
  • Ruthie Su
  • Manish Thakur
  • Rebecca Tin 1996
  • Hendry Ton 1992-1993
  • James Ushiba 1989-1990, M.D.
  • Flora Wan 1996
  • Elizabeth Wang 1987
  • Katie Wheeler
  • Michelle White 1989
  • Lily Wong
  • Tiffany Wong
  • Sothy Yi

  High school students

  • Katie Augustyn 2001
  • Erika Choy 2006
  • Jennifer Cribbs 2000
  • Valentina Garcia 2008
  • Abdul Jandali 1999
  • Michelle Knudsen 1995
  • BinBin Liang 2002
  • LaShawn Martin 1994
  • Zan Morris 2003
  • Loretta Nguyen 1995
  • Casey Oto 2005
  • Sam Rosette 1997
  • Laura Sextro 1992
  • Katelyn Walker 2003
  • David Wilson 1992

  High school teachers

  • Anne Bengtson 1991
  • Kristen Daehl 1992
  • John Forte 1993

  Visiting graduate students

  • Jaap Kooijman, Univ. Nimegen, 1994
  • Giuliana La Rotonda, Univ. Naples, 1997-1998
  • Diego Wengier, Univ. Buenos Aires, 2004, 2007
  • Vladimir Bondarenko, Moldava Research Inst., 2005
  • Anja Kombrink, Holland, 2008

  Sabbatical and other short-term visitors

  • Michael Christianson, 1988
  • Eliezer Lifschitz, Technion, 1995
  • Ed Butler, Eastern Arizona College, 2009
  • Shaul Yalovsky, Tel Aviv University, 2009