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Jernej Murn, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of California, Riverside
E-mail: jernej.murn@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-4267
B.Sc., University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (2001)
Ph.D., CEA Laboratory for Functional Genomics, France | University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (2006)
Postdoctoral training, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2008-2009), Boston Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School (2009-2017); Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside (July 2017- ).
Yuan Liu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
E-mail: yuanl@ucr.edu
B.S., School of Life Sciences, Shandong university (2011)
Ph.D., School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China (2017)
Postdoc Fellow, University of Cincinnati (2018); Postdoctoral Associate, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2018-2019)
Benedict Smail, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
E-mail: benedict.smail@gmail.com
B.S. Biology, University of Wisconsin Madison
Ph.D., Chemistry, Portland State University (2019)
Postdoc, Dana Farber Cancer Institute (2020-2023)
Kriti Shah
Graduate Student
E-mail: kshah022@ucr.edu
B.Sc., Biochemistry, St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India;
M.S., Biochemistry, California State University;
Ph.D. student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Riverside.
Shiyang He
Graduate Student
E-mail: she050@ucr.edu
B.S., Biological Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
M.S., Genetics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Ph.D. student, Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, Riverside
Žana Brilej
Visiting Student (ASEF Fellow)
E-mail: zb5816@student.uni-lj.si / zanika.brilej@gmail.com
B.S., University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Pharmacy (2023)
Undergraduate student researcher, National Institute of Chemistry Slovenia, Synthetic Biology and Immunology (2021-2023)
M.Sc., Uppsala University, Biomedicine (2023-2025)
Ibrahim Maaz
Undergraduate Student
E-mail: imaaz001@ucr.edu
B.Sc., Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside
Kawon (Anzie) Pyo
Undergraduate Student
E-mail: kpyo002@ucr.edu
B.Sc., Biology, University of California, Riverside
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