October 2024
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 email. 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 at touchstone.
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 is the best pickleball player in the lab 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.
Darren Kahan
Darren is a PhD student in Biophysics at UC Berkeley, working with Susan Marqusee.
Vinson Fan
Vinson is a PhD student in MCB in the Tjian-Darzacq group.
Melvin Soriano
Melvin is a SEED Honors Scholar, currently a junior, and majoring in bioengineering at UC Berkeley.
Touss Majidi
Touss is currently a junior majoring in bioengineering at UC Berkeley.
Pooja Agarwal
Pooja is a second year student majoring in Molecular Biology at UC Berkeley.
Margot Galle
Margot is a PhD student in Bio-engineering sciences at VIB-VUB CSB, working with Remy Loris and in Biochemistry and Biotechnology at VIB-UGhent PSB working with Lieven De Veylder. She visited the lab in February-March 2022 and remains a close collaborator.
Lab Alums
Jordan Stefani, 2021-2023, Software Developer, 10x Genomics
Kimber Benasutti, 2021-2024, PhD student at Washington State
Elisabeth Thomsen, 2023, PhD student at University of Copenhagen
Undergraduates
Daniel Lopez UC Berkeley 2021
Gurleen Kaur UC Berkeley 2023
Giovani Pimentel-Solorio UC Berkeley 2023
Angelica Lam UC Berkeley 2023
Ananya Bahugudumbi UC Berkeley 2024
Adi Vunnum UC Berkeley 2024
Samhith Kakarla UC Berkeley 2025
Joel Castro UC Berkeley 2026
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