Principal Investigator
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
Keaton Knowles
Biological Sciences Major
Justin Kim
Biological Sciences Major
Sameeha Khan
Biological Sciences Major
Lizbeth Hernandez
Biological Sciences Major
Joshua Choi
Biological Sciences Major
Spring Momeni
Biological Sciences Major
Lauren Hoofard
Biological Sciences Major
Aaron Noori
Biological Sciences Major
Anirudh Margasahayam
Biological Sciences 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
Dominic Bechere
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
Emma Le
Hailin Liang
Rongying (Emily) Lu
Fangning Luo
Brian Luu
Robert Magie
Alvin Nguyen
Kien Nguyen
Mahvand Noori
Edward Oropeza-Rodriguez
Cindy Park
Ronni Park
Matthew Raft
Carolina Rojas
Tina Soroudi
Faith Su
Ryan Su
Hayden Tran
Vincent Trieu
Andrés Vargas
Jose Victorino
Christine Vu
Amanda Woodbury
Eugene Yamamoto
Eunbi Yang
Melody 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