Stajich Laboratory for Fungal Evolutionary Genomics

Team

The Stajich Lab asks questions about how microbes interact with a focus on Fungi. We use genomics, bioinformatics, and experimental mycology approaches to test evolutionary, molecular, and ecological questions.

member portrait Jason Stajich Professor
member portrait Carolina Piña Páez Postdoctoral Fellow
member portrait Cassandra L. Ettinger NSF Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow
member portrait Cheng-Hung Tsai GGB Graduate Student
member portrait Jessica Wu-Woods Microbiology Graduate Student
member portrait Julia Adams Plant Biology Graduate Student
member portrait Julissa Perez-Marron Microbiology Graduate Student
member portrait Kian Kelly Plant Pathology Graduate Student
member portrait Leila Shadmani Microbiology Graduate Student
member portrait Nathan Mathieu GGB Graduate Student
member portrait Noralhuda Ismail Microbiology Graduate Student
member portrait Sadikshya Sharma GGB Graduate Student
member portrait Xueyan Xu CMDB Graduate Student
member portrait Mia Miyatake Undergraduate Researcher
member portrait Varshini Balaji Undergraduate Researcher
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Alumni

These are past lab members who have moved on in their careers.

member portrait Brad Cavinder Postdoctoral Fellow
member portrait Claudia Coleine Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
member portrait Jinfeng Chen Postdoctoral Fellow
member portrait John Abramyan Postdoctoral Fellow
member portrait Kelsey Aadland Postdoctoral Fellow
member portrait Lotus Lofgren Postdoctoral Fellow
member portrait Peng Liu Postdoctoral Fellow
member portrait Sofia Robb Postdoctoral Fellow
member portrait Yan Wang Postdoctoral Fellow
member portrait Ying Sun Postdoctoral Fellow
member portrait Derreck Carter-House Gradute Student
member portrait Divya Sain Gradute Student
member portrait Jesús Peña Microbiology Graduate student
member portrait Mark Yacoub Microbiology Graduate Student
member portrait Nuttapon Pombubpa Gradute Student
member portrait Sawyer Masonjones Graduate Student
member portrait Steven Ahrendt Graduate Student
member portrait Talieh Ostovar Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student (SDSU-UCR)
member portrait Tania Kurbessoian Microbiology Graduate Student
member portrait Yi Zhou Masters Student
member portrait Yizhou Wang Graduate Student
member portrait Jericho Ortañez Junior Specialist
member portrait Omar Valencia Jr Specialist

Visitor Alumni

member portrait Anastasia Gioti
member portrait João Felipe Moreira Salgado
member portrait Jaehyuk Choi
member portrait Suzanne Joneson
member portrait Xin-zhan Liu Sabbatical Visitor
member portrait Adeyinka Odebode

Undergraduate Alumni

member portrait Annie Nyguen
member portrait Carlos Rojas Torres
member portrait Deane Kim
member portrait Dillon McDonald
member portrait Dionne Martin
member portrait Dylan McVay
member portrait Erum Khan
member portrait Estafania Caldera
member portrait Georgiy Smirnov
member portrait Jessica De Anda
member portrait Josh Chung
member portrait justin-shen.md
member portrait leandra-ibrahim.md
member portrait lorena-rivera.md
member portrait Megna Tiwari
member portrait na-jeong.md
member portrait Nicole Leung
member portrait Ramy Wissa
member portrait Renata Haro
member portrait Saisuki Putumbaka
member portrait Sapphire Ear
member portrait Serena Choi
member portrait Skylar McDonald

Lab Group Memories

Funding

Our work is made possible by funding from several organizations.