People — StallerLab

Opportunities

We have an opening for a postdoc. If you are interested, please email Max.

Openings are available for graduate students enrolled in UC Berkeley PhD programs. We are not accepting direct admission students at this time.

Summer openings for UC Berkeley undergraduates are available via the following form: https://forms.gle/TRn5W74U4dEyAT227. For openings during the semester, look for openings on URAP.

Please email: mstaller [at] berkeley [dot] edu

Assistant Professor in Residence

Max Valentín Staller, PhD
Center for Computational Biology, UC Berkeley
Max’s lab experience began with Sean Connolly and Jorge Benach at Stony Brook University. Max graduated from Princeton University with a major in Molecular Biology and a minor in Quantitative and Computational Biology, completing a senior thesis with David Botstein. Max completed graduate studies in the Systems Biology program at Harvard University, where he worked with Angela DePace. Max pursued his postdoctoral work at Washington University in St. Louis working with Barak Cohen and Rohit Pappu. Outside of lab, Max enjoys hiking, skiing and cooking.
Por qué uso la bandera vieja?
En mi oficina esta colgada la bandera Venezolana de mi abuelo. Mi abuelo, Valentín Hernández Acosta trabajó para el gobierno de Venezuela durante muchos años. Él fue quien como ministro de Petróleo y Minas nacionalizó la industria petrolera en Venezuela en 1976. Para honrar esa parte de la historia de mi familia, colgué la bandera Venezolana en mi oficina. Yo no apoyo al gobierno de Maduro ni el legado de Chávez, por eso uso la antigua bandera, la de mi abuelo Valentín.

Caitlin Carmody
Caitlin is a Postdoc investigating the functional effects of variants of uncertain significance in activation domains of autism associated transcription factors. Caitlin loves artificial frosting and celcius.

Aditya Udupa
Aditya is a PhD candidate in MCB. In his free time, he enjoys drinking smoothies and playing basketball.

Marissa Zintel
Marissa is a PhD student in MCB interested in synthetic activation domains in yeast. Marissa loves strawberries and climbing. She is also unequivocally the best pickleball player in the lab.

Scarleth Chalen Ulloa
Scarleth is a PhD student in MCB studying serine rich activation domains. She is the only lab member able to keep a plant alive.

Claire LeBlanc
Claire is a PhD student in CCB studying activation domain evolution in yeast. She enjoys running and thinks that Lilo and Stich is the best movie ever.

Sanjana Kotha
Sanjana is junior specialist in the lab, studying ASD variants of uncertain significance in TFs. Sanjana is the only lab member to have won the Ticketmaster war and attended the Eras tour.

Emily Chase

Emily graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology. She is studying activation domains in yeast.