Meet the Ideker Lab

The Ideker Lab is a dynamic group of enthusiastic scientists with expertise across a variety of disciplines, including systems biology, cellular modeling, cancer genomics, computational biology, epigenetics, and psychiatric diseases. Current lab members and their contact information are shown below. Visit the Lab Alumni page to meet our distinguished alumni. Visit our Photo Gallery to see what fun our group has been up to! 

Staff

Trey Ideker, Ph.D.
Professor
tideker@ucsd.edu 

Kate Licon
Lab Manager
klicon@health.ucsd.edu
Tel (858) 822-4667

Jillian Mohan, Ph.D.
Program Manager
jmohan@health.ucsd.edu

Charlotte Marquez 
Administrator
Tel. (858) 534-7726
cacurtis@ucsd.edu
idekeradmin@ucsd.edu

Kyla Delos Santos
Administrator
kcdelossantos@ucsd.edu

Dorothy Tsai
Staff Research Associate
djtsai@ucsd.edu

Fund Managers

Julie Wilkes 
Asst. Director & Pre-Award 
Sponsored Projects Office (SPO)

jwilkes@health.ucsd.edu

Jeane Lee
 Post-Award
Sponsored Projects Office (SPO)

jel079@health.ucsd.edu

Shannon Wright
 Pre-Award
Sponsored Projects Office (SPO)

 s4wright@health.ucsd.edu

Software Development Team

Dexter Pratt
Director of Software Development
depratt@health.ucsd.edu

Jing Chen
Software Architect
jic002@ucsd.edu

Chris Churas
Software Developer
cchuras@ucsd.edu

Dylan Fong
Software Developer
dylanfong.ut@gmail.com

Chengzhan Gao
Software Developer
chg014@health.ucsd.edu

Joanna Lenkiewicz
Software Developer
jlenkiewicz@health.ucsd.edu

Willy Markuske 
NRNB Cluster Support
 nrnb-support@sdsc.edu

Kei Ono
Bioinformatics Programmer
kono@ucsd.edu

RudiPillich

Rudolf T. Pillich, Ph.D.
NDEx Application Manager
rpillich@ucsd.edu

Kevin Smith
Systems Admin
support@physics.ucsd.edu
ksmith@physics.ucsd.edu

Postdoctoral Scholars

Jiahao Gao, Ph.D. 
Postdoctoral Scholar
jig049@health.ucsd.edu

Mark (Marcus) Kelly, Ph.D. 
Postdoctoral Scholar
m3kelly@ucsd.edu

JungHo Kong, Ph.D. 
Postdoctoral Scholar
j4kong@health.ucsd.edu

Ingoo Lee, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
i5lee@health.ucsd.edu

Nicole Mattson, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
nmattson@health.ucsd.edu

Sungjoon Park, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
sup015@health.ucsd.edu

Leah Schaffer, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
lvschaffer@health.ucsd.edu

Jane Yang, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
jay039@health.ucsd.edu

Xiaoyu Zhao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
xiz140@ucsd.edu

Graduate Student Researchers

Sahar Alkhairy
Computer Science, PhD Student
salkhairy@ucsd.edu

Stephanie Harchenko 
Biomedical Sciences, PhD Student
harchenko@health.ucsd.edu

Clara (Mengzhou) Hu
Biomedical Sciences, PhD Student
mhu@ucsd.edu

Zane Koch
Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, 
PhD Student

zkoch@ucsd.edu

Adam Li

Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, 
PhD Student

ayl009@ucsd.edu

Isabella Panagiotou
Biology, Master’s Student
ipanagio@ucsd.edu

Scarlett (Gege) Qian
Bioinformatics & Systems Biology,
PhD Student
geqian@ucsd.edu

Akshat Singhal
Computer Science, PhD Student
a2singha@ucsd.edu

Patrick Wall
Bioengineering, PhD Student
pgwall@ucsd.edu

Sarah Wright
Bioinformatics & Systems Biology,
PhD Student

snwright@ucsd.edu

Undergraduate Student Researchers

Sarah Bergendahl 
Undergraduate, Lab Assistant
sbergend@ucsd.edu

Cat Fogg
Undergraduate, Lab Assistant
cfogg@ucsd.edu

Linda Wei
Undergraduate, Lab Assistant
xywei@ucsd.edu

Micah Kim
Undergraduate, Lab Assistant
mjk004@ucsd.edu

Joshua Yi
Undergraduate, Lab Assistant
joyi@ucsd.edu

Grisha Tamazyan
Undergraduate, Lab Assistant
gtamazyan@ucsd.edu