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!
Trey Ideker, Ph.D.
University of California San Diego
Professor, Department of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Computer Science
Co-Director, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology PhD Program
Director, NIH Bridge2AI Functional Genomics Program
Director, NIGMS National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB)
Co-Director, NCI Cancer Cell Map Initiative (CCMI)
Co-Director, NIMH Psychiatric Cell Map Initiative (PCMI)
Telephone +1 (858) 822-4558
Email tideker [at] ucsd.edu
Mailing Address
UC San Diego, Dept of Medicine
9500 Gilman Drive, Mailcode 0688
La Jolla, CA 92093-0688
Assistant: Charlotte Marquez, idekeradmin [at] ucsd.edu
Lab Manager: Kate Licon, klicon [at] health.ucsd.edu
Staff

Robin Bachelder, PhD
Research Director
rbachelder [at] ucsd.edu

Kate Licon
Lab Manager
klicon [at] health.ucsd.edu
Tel (858) 822-4667
Fax (858) 246-1396

Charlotte Marquez
Assistant to Dr. Ideker
cacurtis [at] ucsd.edu
idekeradmin [at] ucsd.edu
(858) 534-7726

Rachel Collier
Staff Research Associate
recollier [at] ucsd.edu

Dorothy Tsai
Staff Research Associate
djtsai [at] ucsd.edu
Fund Managers

Julie Wilkes
Assist. Director, Sponsored Projects Office
Fund Manager, Pre-Award
jwilkes [at] health.ucsd.edu
Software Development Team

Dexter Pratt
Director of Software Development
depratt [at] ucsd.edu

Jing Chen
Software Architect
jic002 [at] ucsd.edu

Chris Churas
Software Developer
cchuras [at] ucsd.edu
Senior Scientists & Postdoctoral Scholars

Mark (Marcus) Kelly, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Interim Assist. Director, CCMI
m3kelly [at] health.ucsd.edu

JungHo Kong, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
j4kong [at] health.ucsd.edu
Graduate Student Researchers

Sahar Alkhairy
Computer Science (PhD)
salkhairy [at] ucsd.edu

Samson Fong
Bioengineering (PhD)
shfong [at] ucsd.edu

Clara (Mengzhou) Hu
Biomedical Sciences (PhD)
mhu [at] health.ucsd.edu

Mayank Jain
Computer Sci & Eng (MS)
maj014 [at] ucsd.edu

Zane Koch
Bioinformatics & Systems Biology (PhD)
zkoch [at] ucsd.edu

Adam Li
Bioinformatics & Systems Biology (PhD)
ayl009 [at] ucsd.edu

Brenton Munson
Bioengineering (PhD)
bpmunson [at] eng.ucsd.edu

Scarlett (Gege) Qian
Bioinformatics & Systems Biology (PhD)
geqian [at] ucsd.edu

Akshat Singhal
Computer Science (PhD)
a2singha [at] ucsd.edu

Patrick Wall
Bioengineering (PhD)
pgwall [at] eng.ucsd.edu

Sarah Wright
Bioinformatics & Systems Biology (PhD)
snwright [at] ucsd.edu
Lab Assistants

Sarah Bergendahl
Undergraduate Lab Assistant
sbergend [at] ucsd.edu

Cat Fogg
Undergraduate Lab Assistant
czfogg [at] ucsd.edu

Beatte Kim
Undergraduate Lab Assistant
bek006 [at] ucsd.edu

Isabella Panagiotou
Undergraduate Lab Assistant
ipanagio [at] ucsd.edu

Linda Wei
Undergraduate Lab Assistant
xywei [at] ucsd.edu