Principal Investigator

Dr. Jose M. Ranz

Dr. José M. Ranz

Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
UCI School of Biological Sciences

Ph.D., Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 1998, Biological Sciences
B.S., Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 1993, Biological Sciences

University of California, Irvine
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Irvine, CA 92697
Mail: 321 Steinhaus Hall
Office: 465 Steinhaus Hall
Phone: (949) 824-9071
Fax: (949) 824-2181
Email: jranz@uci.edu

Research Interests: Functional and Comparative Genomics, Evolution of the Expression Network, Speciation


Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Bryan Clifton

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2022, Biological Sciences: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
M.S., University of California, Irvine, 2019, Biological Sciences
B.S., University of California, Irvine, 2014, Genetics

University of California, Irvine
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Irvine, CA 92697
Mail: 321 Steinhaus Hall
Office: 413 Steinhaus Hall
Phone: (949) 824-8905
Email: bclifton@uci.edu

Research Interests: Phenotypic Impact of Genetic Novelty, Evolution of Gene Expression Networks, Molecular Evolution and Functional Diversification of Tandemly-Repeated Genes, Species-Specific Gene Families

Graduate Student Researchers

Ashlyn Kimura

Ph.D. Student, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
B.S., University of California, Irvine, 2019, Major in Biological Sciences – Minor in Bioinformatics

University of California, Irvine
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Irvine, CA 92697
Mail: 321 Steinhaus Hall
Office: 413 Steinhaus Hall
Phone: (949) 824-8905
Email: aekimura@uci.edu

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, long non-coding RNA (lncRNA)


Imtiyaz Hariyani

Ph.D. Student, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
B.S., New York University Abu Dhabi, 2019, Major in Biology – Minor in Applied Mathematics

University of California, Irvine
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Irvine, CA 92697
Mail: 321 Steinhaus Hall
Office: 413 Steinhaus Hall
Phone: (949) 992-7658
Email: ihariyan@uci.edu

Research Interests: Transcriptomics, evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, transposable elements, functional and comparative genomics

Undergraduate Researchers

Tina Soroudi
Biological Sciences Major

Fangning (Sophia) Luo

Biological Sciences Major

Hailin Liang

Biological Sciences Major
Computer Sciences Minor

Emma Le

Biological Sciences Major

Melody Yang

XXX Major

Aaron Sidhu

XXXX Major

Anirudh Margasahayam

XXX Major

Keaton Knowles

XXX Major

Lauren Hoofard

XXX Major

Dominic Bechere

XXX Major


Lab Alumni

Post-doctoral Fellows

Dr. Carlos Diaz-Castillo

(at the University of California Irvine)

Dr. Marcin von Grotthuss

(at the Broad Institute)

Dr. Cyrille Ndo

(at the University of Douala, Cameroon)

Dr. Shu-Dan Yeh

(at the National Central University, Taiwan)

Rotation Students

Kevin Cabrera

Stephenson Chea

Michael Caldwell

Research Associates

Carolus Chan

Dr. Hsiu-Ching Ma

Bio 199 Undergraduate Researchers

Mashya Abbassi

Arina Adourian

Sarah Bedford

Liam Bui

Diego Canchola

Zeinab Chahine

Dandan Chen

Tiffanie Do

Kania Gandasetiawan

Amir Jaberizadeh

Suvini Jayasekera

Jamie Jimenez

Bryant Kao

Eunice Kim

Ashlyn Kimura

Rongying (Emily) Lu

Brian Luu

Robert Magie

Alvin Nguyen

Kien Nguyen

Mahvand Noori

Edward Oropeza-Rodriguez

Cindy Park

Ronni Park

Matthew Raft

Carolina Rojas

Faith Su

Ryan Su

Hayden Tran

Vincent Trieu

Andrés Vargas

Jose Victorino

Christine Vu

Amanda Woodbury

Eugene Yamamoto

Eunbi Yang

Summer Students

Francisco Carranza *

Adriana Cordova *

Veran Chan ¶

Vineet Desai ¶

Shajan Doroudi ¶

Kristopher Hernandez *

Moises Paramo *

Daphne Real *

Rene Rivera *

Virginia Sahagun *

Henry Truong §

* Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program

§ SURP at UCI

¶ High-school student