![Ali Frand Alison R. Frand, Principal Investigator](https://frandlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Ali-Frand3.jpg)
Alison R. Frand, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
Dr. Frand joined the Department of Biological Chemistry in the School of Medicine at UCLA in 2007. She began studying the molting cycle of C. elegans as a post-doctoral research fellow in Gary Ruvkun’s lab at Harvard Medical School. As a graduate student in Chris Kaiser’s lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she characterized the major, conserved pathway for protein disulfide bond formation in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of yeast. Alison earned her bachelor degree from Cornell University, where she worked in Tom Fox’s lab.
Lab Alumni
![Ruhi Patel Ruhi Patel, Graduate Student](https://frandlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Ruhi_Ali2014CROPPED-221x300.jpg)
Ruhi Patel, PhD
Post-doc, Hallem Lab, UCLA
![Sophie Katz Sophie Katz, Graduate Student](https://frandlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/sardonic-sophie-221x300.jpg)
Sophie Katz, PhD
UCLA Botanical Garden
![Trisha Chong Trisha Chong, Technician](https://frandlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Trischa_CHONG-221x300.jpg)
Trisha Chong
Graduate Student, Stanford University
![Chloe Chloe](https://frandlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CHLOE.jpg)
Graduate Student, M.I.T.
![Hannah Maul-Newby Hannah Maul-Newby, Technician](https://frandlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hannah-221x300.jpg)
Hannah Maul-Newby
Graduate Student, UC Santa Cruz
![Jacky jacky](https://frandlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Jacky.jpg)
Jackie Lopez
Graduate Student, Cornell University
![Vijaykumar Meli Vijaykumar Meli, Ph.D. Research Fellow](https://frandlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Vijaykumar-Meli3.jpg)
Vijaykumar Meli, PhD
![Beatriz Osuna Beatriz Osuna,Lab Technician](https://frandlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bettie3-221x300.jpg)
Beatriz Osuna, PhD
Relay Pharmaceuticals
![Gabi Monsalve Gabriela C. Monsalve, Graduate Student](https://frandlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Gabi-Monsalve1.jpg)
Gabriela Monsalve, PhD
MIND Program Director, UCSF
![Emel Emel Kasgarli, College of Medicine, University of Florida](https://frandlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Emel3.jpg)
Emel Kasgarli, M.D.
![Naxiely Mercado Naxiely Mercado](https://frandlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Naxiely-221x300.jpg)
Naxiely Mercado Cortez, B.S.