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

Tel. (858) 822-4558
tideker@ucsd.edu 

Robin Bachelder, PhD
Research Director

rbachelder@ucsd.edu

Charlotte Marquez 
Administrator

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

Wet Lab

Kate Licon
Lab Manager

klicon@health.ucsd.edu
Tel (858) 822-4667
Fax (858) 246-1396

Rachel Collier
Staff Research Associate

recollier@ucsd.edu

Dorothy Tsai
Staff Research Associate

djtsai@ucsd.edu

Sarah Bergendahl 
UG Lab Assistant

sbergend@ucsd.edu

Cat Fogg
UG Lab Assistant

cfogg@ucsd.edu

Beatte Kim
UG Lab Assistant

bek006@ucsd.edu

Isabella Panagiotou
UG Lab Assistant

ipanagio@ucsd.edu 

Linda Wei
UG Lab Assistant

xywei@ucsd.edu

Fund Managers

Julie Wilkes 
Asst. Director, Sponsored Projects (SPO)
Fund Manager, Pre-Award

jwilkes@health.ucsd.edu

Jeane Lee
Fund Manager, Post-Award
Sponsored Projects Office (SPO)

jel079@health.ucsd.edu

Leyhda Acol
Fund Manager
Sponsored Projects Office

lacol@health.ucsd.edu

Software Development Team

DexterPratt

Dexter Pratt
Director of Software Development

depratt@health.ucsd.edu

JingChen

Jing Chen
Software Architect

jic002@ucsd.edu

ChrisC

Chris Churas
Software Developer

cchuras@ucsd.edu

KeiOno

Kei Ono
Bioinformatics Programmer

kono@ucsd.edu

RudiPillich

Rudolf T. Pillich, Ph.D.
NDEx Application Manager

rpillich@ucsd.edu

Dylan Fong
Software Developer

Email

Willy Markuske 
NRNB Cluster Support

nrnb-cluster@googlegroups.com
wmarkuske@sdsc.edu

 

Kevin Smith
SysAdmin

support@physics.ucsd.edu
ksmith@physics.ucsd.edu

Postdoctoral Scholars

Mark (Marcus) Kelly, Ph.D. 
Postdoctoral Scholar
Interim Assist. Director, CCMI

m3kelly@ucsd.edu

JungHo Kong, Ph.D. 
Postdoctoral Scholar

j4kong@health.ucsd.edu

Ingoo Lee, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar

i5lee@health.ucsd.edu

Karen (Yuan) Mei, Ph.D. 
Postdoctoral Scholar

yumei@health.ucsd.edu

Sungjoon Park, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar

sup015@health.ucsd.edu

Leah Schaffer, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar

lvschaffer@health.ucsd.edu

Xiaoyu Zhao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar

xiz140@ucsd.edu

Nicole Mattson, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar

Arriving soon!

Jane Yang, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar

Arriving soon!

Graduate Student Researchers

Sahar Alkhairy
Computer Science (PhD)

salkhairy@ucsd.edu

Samson Fong
Bioengineering (PhD)

shfong@eng.ucsd.edu

Clara (Mengzhou) Hu
Biomedical Sciences (PhD)

mhu@ucsd.edu

Mayank Jain
Computer Sci & Eng (MS) 

maj014@ucsd.edu

Zane Koch
Bioinformatics & Systems Biology (PhD) 

zkoch@ucsd.edu

Adam Li
Bioinformatics & Systems Biology (PhD)

ayl009@ucsd.edu

Brenton Munson
Bioengineering (PhD)

bpmunson@eng.ucsd.edu

Scarlett (Gege) Qian
Bioinformatics & Systems Biology (PhD)

geqian@ucsd.edu

Akshat Singhal
Computer Science (PhD)

a2singha@eng.ucsd.edu

Patrick Wall
Bioengineering (PhD)

pgwall@eng.ucsd.edu

Sarah Wright
Bioinformatics & Systems Biology (PhD)

snwright@ucsd.edu