Former Lab Members
Karyme Rodriguez
Undergraduate Student
Gabrielle Shapiro
Undergraduate Student
Past IPATH Scholar
Tonny Thi
Undergraduate Student
Gunnar Idsvoog
Undergraduate Student
Albert Nasr
Undergraduate Student
Gabrielle Shapiro
Undergraduate Student
Past IPATH Scholar
Jeong-hwan Hwang
Visiting Scholar
Andrew Sue
Graduate Student
SDSU/UCSD
Dr. Pride is originally from Nashville, Tennessee. He received his undergraduate degree in biology from Wake Forest University and entered the MSTP program at Vanderbilt University. He received his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Vanderbilt University in the laboratory of Dr. Martin Blaser and completed his M.D. at New York University. He finished his medical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Internal Medicine, and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Stanford University. He then moved to The University of California, San Diego and serves as the Director of the Clinical Molecular Microbiology Laboratory and as the Associate Director of the Microbiology Laboratory. He also runs a research laboratory dedicated to human microbiome and human virome work. Dr. Pride also collaborates with the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics at UCSD, and has been working to understand how we might better understand the interactions between phages and their host bacteria for phage therapy. Dr. Pride's other major interests are in developing diagnostic tests for infectious diseases, and in understanding the role of microbial communities in human health and disease.
Mint Ruangritchai
Undergraduate Student
Madeleine Schwab
Social Media Intern
Victoria Carrico
Volunteer
PALMS Lab
Principal Investigator
Marine Tourneur
Visiting Master's Student
Jesse Leonard
Research Associate
PALMS Lab
Rose Bero
BS/MS Student
Pogliano Lab
Anh Tran
Research Associate
PALMS Lab
Norhan Turki
BS/MS Student
Pogliano Lab
Alicia Amamoto
Lab Manager
PALMS Lab
Monica Bates
Research Associate
Interim Lab manager
TBD
Visiting Scholar
Veronica Huang
Undergraduate Student
David T. Pride, MD PhD
TBD
IPATH Scholar
Issam Ben Salem
Visiting Scholar
Erin Kang
Undergraduate Student
Bethzabe Serrano
Undergraduate Student
Lab Members
TBD
High School Student
Andrew Su
Undergraduate Student
Ana Cobian, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
President's Fellow