The Lab
Principal investigator
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Manish Butte, MD PhD E. Richard Stiehm Endowed Chair, Professor, and Division Chief, Department of Pediatrics Office: MDCC 12-430 Bio UCLA Profile MIMG profile |
Staff
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Tim Thauland, PhD Project Scientist |
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Mahdi Hasani, PhD2 Project Scientist (collaboration with Song Li Lab) |
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Alexis Stephens, BS Clinical Research Coordinator |
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Rina Nagarajan Scientific Research Associate |
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Anviksha Srivastava Scientific Research Associate |
Post-doctoral fellows
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Aaron Chin, MD Clinical Fellow in Immunology & Allergy (2022-24), Fellow in Clinical Informatics (2024-26) |
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Matthew Miller, PhD PhD in Immunology 2024, UCLA |
Graduate students
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Samantha Jensen Primary mentor is Valerie Arboleda, MD PhD PhD student in Genetics and Genomics |
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Eta Atolia, PhD Currently, back in medical school at DGSOM MD/PhD Program (MSTP) PhD in Immunology, UCLA 2023 |
Undergraduate students
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Hannah Jin UCLA Undergraduate, class of 2025 |
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Bella Machado UCLA Undergraduate, class of 2024 |
Alumni
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Rohit Srinivas UCLA Undergraduate, then Scientific Research Associate (2023-24) Currently Medical Student at UT Southwestern (2024-28) |
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Matthew Crowe UCLA Undergraduate student (2021-23), now at Johns Hopkins |
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Michael Trump Scientific Research Associate I (2022-23), now at Duke University |
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Jennifer Aron, MD Postdoctoral fellow, then Project Scientist (2018-22) Currently, resident in Family Medicine at Kingman Regional Medical Center |
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Terrie Ahn, MD Clinical Fellow in Allergy & Immunology (2020-22) Now Clinical Asst Professor at UCLA |
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Utku Acar, MD Clinical Fellow in Allergy & Immunology (2020-22) Now at Stanford Health, East Grand Forks, Minnesota |
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Humza Khan Undergrad (2019-21) & Scientific Research Associate (2021-22) now at Stanford MSTP program (MD PhD) (2022-) |
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Valentina Alonso PhD Program in Immunology (IMMP) 2020-2022 |
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Negin Majedi, PhD PhD in Bioengineering & UCLA (2016-2021) Post-doctoral Fellow (2021) Currently, Co-Founder and CEO at Symphony Biosciences |
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Chanti Bun Scientific Research Associate (2017-2021) |
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Christopher Luthers Rotation Student Winter 2020-21 PhD Program in Immunology (IMMP) Currently, Don Kohn's lab (UCLA) |
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Kevin Meng PhD in Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford (2014-2019) Currently, Senior Scientist at BioNTech SE |
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Andrew Kalra UCLA Undergraduate student Currently, Research Technician Johns Hopkins University |
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Naveed Zaman UCLA Undergraduate student Currently, Medical Student at USC |
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Mana Sheykhsoltan UCLA Undergraduate student (2018-2020) Currently, MD student, Georgetown University School of Medicine |
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Emily Yang 1st year PhD program in IMMP, Rotation (2017) |
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Ken Hu, PhD PhD in Biophysics at Stanford (2013-2017) |
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Sara Kleinman, MD Clinical Fellow, Allergy and Immunology Currently, Assistant Professor, Stanford Pediatrics, Allergy & Immunology |
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Irina Gurevich, PhD Post-doctoral Fellow, 2015-2017 Currently, Consultant, Stanford University |
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Ilan Bocian Summer High School intern 2017 and 2018 Currently, Undergraduate at Yeshiva University |
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Ian Perrone PhD program in IMMP (Rotation Student) 2017 |
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Jeff Choi 4th year MD program, Med Scholar in the lab 2016-2017 Currently, Resident in Surgery, Stanford University |
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Bryan Xie PhD program in Immunology (Stanford), 2016 in the lab Currently, Scientist at 3T Biosciences |
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Marc A. Bruce, PhD Currently CEO and Co-Founder, Microvolution LLC |
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Andrew Wang, PhD |
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Anuj Patel Stanford 2016 Currently, McKinsey |
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Yoseph Semma Stanford 2016 Currently, Medical Student, U Wisconsin |
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Kelvin Yang |
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Julia McKechnie 1st year (rotation student) 2016 PhD program in Immunology Currently: Scientist, Immunology at Icosavax |
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James Harden 1st year (rotation student) 2016 PhD program in Immunology |
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Amy Liu Undergraduate researcher (2014-15) Summer Intern, SIMR (2013), 2014 |
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Lynée Turek-Hankins Undergraduate researcher 2015 |
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Adi de la Zerda, PhD PhD in Materials Science & Engineering, 2017 |
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Bhavani Sanagavarapu |
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Jianwei Liu, PhD |
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Nicholas Bayless PhD Rotation Student, Immunology, 2013 |
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Thomas Keller PhD Rotation Student, Immunology, 2013 |
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Dara Strauss-Albee, PhD |
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Sarah Denny Currently, Post-doc at Caltech |
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Keegan Mendonca Summer Intern 2012 (Lynbrook High School) Currently: Manager at Meta |
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Priyal Fadadu Summer Intern, 2010, 2012 Univesity of Califorina, Los Angeles Currently: MD Candidate at Mayo Medical School |
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Rohit Dasgupta Summer Intern, 2011 (Johns Hopkins) |
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Isaac Ghansah Summer Intern, 2011 (Stanford) Currently: Resident in Radiology at UCSF Was: Case Western Medical School |
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Claudia Mariella Lavarreda Pearce Summer Intern, 2010 (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
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Ghezal (Omar) Beliakoff, MS Lab Manager/Fashion Consultant, 2009-2011 Currently: Senior Research Associate II - 10x Genomics |
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Dan Garcia, PhD |
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Catherine Le Undergraduate Student, 2009-2010 Currently: MD/PhD Candidate at UC Davis School of Medicine |
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Kate Montgomery, PhD |
Lab Life and Events
2022
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Halloween floor party Oct 2022 |
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Top Golf, El Segundo Sep 2022 |
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Top Golf, El Segundo Sep 2022 |
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Lab birthdays we have a bunch of geminis June 2022 |
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Matt presenting his poster at the Cancun Metabolism Conference May 2022 |
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Tim at the driving range May 2022 |
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"Big 400" at the driving range May 2022 |
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Terrie presenting her work at the 2022 Annual Coccididoidomycosis Meeting April 2022 |
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Alexis presenting her work at the 2022 Annual Coccididoidomycosis Meeting April 2022 |
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Alexis showing how to put out birthday candles during the COVID pandemic Jan 2022 |
2021
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Manish with our collaborator Jolan Walter from University of South Florida Nov 2021 |
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Making ice cream with liquid nitrogen July 2021 |
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Lab gathering at Manish's house May 2021 |
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First gathering at Barne April 2021 |
| Waiting for COVID to end! March 2021 |
2020
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Sweet smile from Thyme Oct 2020 |
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The lab begins COVID-19 antibody testing April 2020 |
2019
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Saying goodbye to Kevin Sep 2019 |
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Lab retreat 2019 at Big Bear Lake Mar 2019 |
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Who is going to bet against Tim? Mar 2019 |
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Something old, something new Mar 2019 |
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Negin made fresh baked pizzas Mar 2019 |
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We will someday get a photo of Chanti Mar 2019 |
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Manish doesn't bluff Mar 2019 |
2018
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Anya, Matt, and Humza Dec 2018 |
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56 people were there! Dec 2018 |
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A dinner to celebrate Jen's engagement Apr 2018 |
2017
2016
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Kelvin Yang SIMR Poster session Aug 2016 |
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Lab ski trip with Bollyky Lab Crystal Bay, NV March 12, 2016 |
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Lab ski trip with Bollyky Lab Crystal Bay, NV March 12, 2016 |
2015
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Tim, Ken, and Manish on the waterfront New Orleans, LA May 11, 2015 |
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Manish presenting at the Pediatrics Department Research Retreat Stanford Apr 17, 2015 |
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Adi showing off her poster at the Pediatrics Retreat Stanford Apr 17, 2015 |
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Ken builds a ramp for sledding Butte - Bollyky lab trip 2015 Incline Village, NV Mar 23, 2015 |
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Ken and Jolien on the beach Butte - Bollyky lab trip 2015 Mar 23, 2015 |
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Manish resting after a long (?) hike. Butte - Bollyky lab trip 2015 Mar 23, 2015 |
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Lab hangout Butte - Bollyky lab trip 2015 Sep 12, 2014 |
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Manish and Paul Butte - Bollyky lab trip 2015 Sep 12, 2014 |
2014
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Butte lab and Bollyky lab first annual Tahoe trip Mar 15, 2014 |
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Paul and Manish Mar 15, 2014 |
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Andrew and Vivek Mar 15, 2014 |
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Ken sets his crayfish traps. Mar 15, 2014 |
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Asilomar arm wrestling. Ken wins. Sep 12, 2014 |
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Laser quest, Mountain View. Butte lab vs Bollyky lab Oct 21, 2014 |
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Laser quest Oct 21, 2014 |
2013
2012
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Lunch with Keegan Mendonca at the end of summer Aug 6, 2012 |