People

Tiffany Scharschmidt, MD

Principal Investigator, Professor
Department of Dermatology

Rio Barrere-Cain

MSTP Student
Tetrad

 

Andrea DeRogatis, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Dermatology

 

Rico Carale

Junior Research Specialist & PROPEL Scholar
Department of Dermatology

Laura Dwyer

Graduate Student
Biomedical Sciences

Kevin Ly

Graduate Student
Biomedical Sciences

 

Tori Tran

Graduate Student
Biomedical Sciences

Chloe Zhang

NSF Bay Area Microbiome
RaMP Scholar

Henry Rodriguez Valbuena

Postdoctoral Scholar
Co-mentored with Alexis Combes

 

 

 

 

 


 

Lab Alumni 

Kimbery Vasquez (Research Specialist 2014-2016, current: Scientist at Gilead)
Kevin Chu (Research Specialist 2016-2018)
Elizabeth Leitner (Research Specialist 2016-2018, current: Research Associate at SentiBio)
Clemence Cornut (visiting student 2019, current: graduate school ENS, Paris)
Michelle Chu (SFSU masters student 2019-2021, current: SFSU CEETL program coordinator) 
John Leech Ph.D. (Postdoc 2017-2020, current: Senior Scientist at Pfizer)
Grace Cho (UC Berkeley thesis student 2019-2021, current: Research specialist at UCLA)
Jessica Ma (UC Berkeley summer student 2019, current: Research specialist at UCSF)
Dhuvi Karthikeyan (UC Berkeley summer student 2020, current: PhD student at UNC)
Sepideh Nozzari MS (Assoc Research Specialist 2018-2021, current: Sr. Research specialist at UCSF)
Allison Tammen (SFSU masters student 2019-2021, current: PhD student at OHSU) 
Geil Merana Ph.D. (BMS PhD Graduate 2016-2021, current: Scientist at Genentech)
William Choi (UC Berkeley summer student 2022)
Jeanmarie Gonzalez Ph.D. (BMS PhD Graduate 2016-2022, current: CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellow)
Joy Okoro (Research Specialist 2021-2023, current: PhD student in UCSF BMS Program)
Oluwansumisola Ojewumi (Research Specialist 2021-2023, current: PhD student at Cornell University)
Miqdad Dhariwala (Postdoc 2018-2023, current: Asst Professor, Dept of Microbial Infection & Immunity, Ohio State University)
Antonin Weckel (Postdoc 2019-2024, current: Analyst, Sofinnova Partners)
Cierra Ahlstrand (RaMP Scholar 2013-2024, current: Junior Research Specialist, UCSF School of Dentistry)
Yusuf Karan (UC Berkeley summer student 2024)