Mentoring

I am committed to providing students with hands-on science education, having mentored 16 undergraduates in three different laboratories. Several of my students have become coauthors on peer-reviewed publications and earned awards for their presentations at conferences, and all 16 have gone on to pursue careers and/or advanced degrees in biology/health sciences.

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Mentor for UC San Diego undergraduate student Eric Liang

Currently a Research Associate at InCube Labs, San Jose, CA

University of California, San Diego

Mentor for undergraduate students Boris Stepanyuk and Alysha Vu

Currently a Lab Manager at UC San Diego Center for Neural Circuits & Behavior; Currently a Research Associate at Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc., San Diego, CA

Mentor for undergraduate student Rose Hill

Currently a Ph.D. student in Molecular & Cell Biology at UC Berkeley

Mentor for undergraduate student Lisa Mesrop

Currently a Research Associate at University of Southern California

Summer mentor for high school students through “Focus on the Future: the Compton – UC San Diego Connection” program

I was awarded a UC San Diego Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action & Diversity Award for co-creating this program.

Mentor for undergraduate student Saloni Mehta through Scripps Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program

Completed Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 2017; Currently a Research Associate at IPD Analytics, Miami, FL

University of California, Berkeley

Mentor for undergraduate students Jason Chan, Olivia Dong, Lily Lam, Joyce Lee, Michelle Lew, Cam Phu, Sandy Sun, Joanna Tran, David Wei, and Mei Wu

Currently all of these students have either completed or are presently completing advanced degrees in biology or health sciences: M.D. (Jason Chan), Ph.D. (David Wei, Joyce Lee, Olivia Dong), R.N. (Lily Lam), Pharm.D. (Michelle Lew, Cam Phu, Mei Wu), clinical dietitian (Sandy Sun), physician assistant (Joanna Tran).