Alison R. Frand, Principal Investigator
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, Graduate Student
Ruhi Patel, PhD
Post-doc, Hallem Lab, UCLA
Sophie Katz, Graduate Student
Sophie Katz, PhD
UCLA Botanical Garden
Trisha Chong, Technician
Trisha Chong
Graduate Student, Stanford University
ChloeChloe Maybrun
Graduate Student, M.I.T.
Hannah Maul-Newby, Technician
Hannah Maul-Newby
Graduate Student, UC Santa Cruz
jacky
Jackie Lopez
Graduate Student, Cornell University
Vijaykumar Meli, Ph.D. Research Fellow
Vijaykumar Meli, PhD
Beatriz Osuna,Lab Technician
Beatriz Osuna, PhD
Relay Pharmaceuticals
Gabriela C. Monsalve, Graduate Student
Gabriela Monsalve, PhD
MIND Program Director, UCSF
Emel Kasgarli, College of Medicine, University of Florida
Emel Kasgarli, M.D.
Naxiely Mercado
Naxiely Mercado Cortez, B.S.