The Komor Lab at Deaminet in San Diego (Jan 2024). Left to right: Quinn Cowan, Dr. Michael Hollander, Mallory Evanoff, Sam Mawson, Dr. Sifeng Gu, Carlos Anthony Vasquez, Nicola Osgood, Prof. Alexis Komor, Rachel Anderson, Zulfiqar Mohamedshah, Zach Krill, Eden Davison, Courtney Sawyer, Kara Dunne-Dombrink, Ben Pollak, Natalie Zawalick

Current Lab Members

Michael Hollander, Ph.D.

09/2022 – present

mjhollander at ucsd dot edu

Postdoctoral Scholar.
Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Stanford University
M.S. in Bioengineering, Stanford University
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Cornell University

Sifeng Gu, Ph.D.

01/2018 – present

gsifeng at ucsd dot edu

Postdoctoral Scholar.
Ph.D. in Chemistry, UC San Diego
M.S. in Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
B.S. in Environmental Science, South China University of Technology

Mallory Evanoff

01/2018 – present

mevanoff at ucsd dot edu

Ph.D. Candidate, Year 7. Chemical Biology.
M.S. in Chemistry, UC San Diego
B.S. in Chemistry (Chemical Biology Focus), Carnegie Mellon University

Quinn Cowan

01/2019 – present

qcowan at ucsd dot edu

Ph.D. Candidate, Year 6. Biochemistry & Biophysics.
M.S. in Chemistry, UC San Diego
B.S. in Biochemistry, University of Southern California

Carlos A. Vasquez

01/2019 – present

c5vasque at ucsd dot edu

Ph.D. Candidate, Year 6. Chemical Biology.
M.S. in Chemistry, UC San Diego
B.S. in Chemistry, UC Irvine

Rachel Anderson

01/2022 – present

r2anderson at ucsd dot edu

Ph.D. Student, Year 3. Chemical Biology.
M.S. in Chemistry, UC San Diego
B.A. in Biochemistry, University of San Diego

Sam Mawson

01/2022 – present

smawson at ucsd dot edu

Ph.D. Student, Year 3. Biochemistry & Biophysics.
B.S. (Hons) in Biochemistry, University of Queensland
M.A. in Philosophy, Monash University
B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy, Monash University

Zulfiqar Mohamedshah

01/2022 – present

zmohamedshah at ucsd dot edu

Ph.D. Student, Year 3. Chemical Biology.
M.S. Food Science, North Carolina State University
B.S. Chemistry, University of Virginia
*co-mentored w/ Devaraj Lab

Kara Dunne-Dombrink

01/2023 – present

kdunnedombrink at ucsd dot edu

Ph.D. Student, Year 2. Chemical Biology.
M.S. in Chemistry, UC San Diego
B.A. in Biochemistry and French, Scripps College

Ben Pollak

01/2023 – present

brpollak at ucsd dot edu

Ph.D. Student, Year 2. Biochemistry & Biophysics.
M.S. in Chemistry, UC San Diego
B.A. in Chemistry, Boston University

Natalie Zawalick

01/2023 – present

nzawalick at ucsd dot edu

Ph.D. Student, Year 2. Chemical Biology.
M.S. in Chemistry, UC San Diego
B.S. in Biochemistry, UCLA

Zach Krill

01/2024 – present

zkrill at ucsd dot edu

Ph.D. Student, Year 1. Biochemistry & Biophysics.
B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with a minor in Microbiology, North Dakota State University

Nicola Osgood

01/2024 – present

nosgood at ucsd dot edu

Ph.D. Student, Year 1. Biochemistry & Biophysics.
B.S. in Biochemistry, Arizona State University

Previous Lab Members

Keolu Fox, Ph.D. — Postdoctoral Scholar (10/2018 – 08/2019) — now Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UCSD
Zsolt Bodai, Ph.D. — Postdoctoral Scholar (06/2018 – 07/2022) — now Senior Scientist at Molecular Assemblies
Kartik Rallapalli, Ph.D. — Ph.D. Candidate (01/2018 – 08/2022) — now Senior Scientist at Metagenomi
Cameron Burnett, Ph.D. — Ph.D. Candidate (12/2017 – 01/2023) — now Research Scientist at Poseida Therapeutics
Elizabeth Porto, Ph.D. — Ph.D. Candidate (01/2018 – 07/2023) — now Senior Associate at Lumanity
Brodie Ranzau, Ph.D. — Ph.D. Candidate (01/2018 – 08/2023) — now Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA
Ashley Wong — Ph.D. Candidate (01/2019 – 08/2022)
Maya Parish — Undergraduate
Helen Li — Undergraduate — now Ph.D. student at Duke University
Marc Zepeda — Undergraduate — now Ph.D. student at Harvard University
Emma Deters — Undergraduate
Annika So — Undergraduate — now Ph.D. student at New York University