Lab Alums
Raymond Lopez-Magaña, PhD 2024.
Raymond studied the TlpD chemoreceptor. Look for his work to be published soon and stay tuned for his next step.
Christina Yang, PhD 2022. Postdoc 2022-2023.
Christina studied bacterial population dynamics and the relation to the TlpB chemoreceptor and AI-2. Look for her work to be published soon. Christina has embarked on a career focussed on teaching.
Aaron Clarke, PhD 2023
Aaron studied how proton pump inhibitors affect H. pylori in vivo, finding surprising effects on bacterial populations. Look for his work to be published soon. Aaron started postdoc work at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
Shuai Hu, PhD 2022. Postdoc 2022-23
Shuai studied how lactate benefits H. pylori, making the exciting discovery that it promotes H. pylori to adopt a new physiological state. Shuai published part of this thesis work in Hu and Ottemann, 2023 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37160-1). Shuai started postdoc work at the Dana Farber Cancer with Jean Zhao.
Arturo Valdez, BS 2022
Arturo did undergraduate research for almost two years, as part of the UCSC STEM Div program. He worked with Raymond Lopez Magaña on TlpD. Check out his current position at Linked In.
Oscar Lopez Figueroa, BS 2022
Oscar completed his BS in Science Education, working in the Ottemann lab doing excellent lab support. He completed his MS in Education from Stanford University in June 2023.
Frida Salgado, MS 2021
Frida completed her MS at UCSC in the METX department, studying a putative AI-2 transporter. After working in public health in the San Diego area, she's off to get another MS in Publich Health!
Cande Bernal, MS 2021
Cande completed his MS in May 2021, with a thesis entitled "Analysis of the roles of Helicobacter pylori lactate utilization genes in lactate-supplemented growth and bacterial pathogenesis".
Kevin Johnson, Ph.D. 2021
Kevin completed his Ph.D. dissertation titled "Characterizing the function of the Helicobacter pylori chemoreceptor TlpA and its role in regulating biogeography and inflammation in vivo". The work is described in Johnson et al. 2021. He now works as a Scientist at Sciolta Therapeutics in San Carlos CA. Follow Kevin at Linked In.
Skander Hathroubi, Ph.D. Postdoc 2016-2019.
Skander brought the love of H. pylori biofilms to the Ottemann lab. You can read about his findings in his four publications so far. He's now leading anti-biofilm efforts at Spartha Medical in Strasbourg, France. Follow Skander at his Web Page or Linked In.
Francesca Batac, M.S. 2018
Francesca completed her MS in collaboration with Melissa Miller, DVM, and returned to her work for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife as a Environmental Scientist/Sea Otter Biologist. You can read Francesca's work in Frontiers in Marine Science here, and follow her at Linked In
Jashwin Sagoo, BS. 2019
Jashwin worked initially on the chemotaxis protein stoichiometry project and then transition to a leadership role analyzing H. pylori chemotaxis suppressor mutants through whole genome sequencing. He is currently a Microbiologist/RAII at Resilience. Follow Jashwin at Linked In.
Julia Zerebinski, B.S. 2018
Julia carried out undergraduate research on H. pylori biofilms. Part of her project was publshed in Hathroubi, Zerebinski, and Ottemann, Mbio 2018. She is currently a PhD student at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, studying malaria genomics and immunology.
Daniela Keilberg, Ph.D. Postodoctoral Scholar 2013-2017.
Daniela brought her love of bacterial signaling from Lotte Sogaard-Andersen's lab at the Max Planck, Germany. She developed the super cool gland bacterial population quantification technique amongst other work in her four publications. She's now a Scientist at Genentech in South San Francisco, CA.
Kieran Collins, Ph.D. 2017.
Kieran completed his PhD in 2017, and then headed off to a postdoc work at Stanford University. Follow Kieran at Linked In.
PhD, MS and Junior Specialist Alums before 2017
2016. Andrew Liu. Undergraduate student then Junior Specialist.
2016. Samar Abbedrabbo, Ph.D.
2014. Wiliam Sause, Ph.D.
2013. Juan Castellon, M.S.
2012. Annah Rolig, Ph.D.
2011. Lisa Collison, M.S.
2011. Papahavee Lertsethtakarn, Ph.D.
2010-2009. Khalid Mehmood, Ph.D. postdoctoral studies
2010. Jenny Draper, Ph.D.
2008-2003. Andrea Castillo, Ph.D. postdoctoral studies
2007. Andrew Lowenthal, Ph.D.
2006. Karianne Terry, Ph.D.
2003-2006. Tessa Andermann
2003-2005. Alvin Go
2004. Ting Chen, M.S.
2001-2000. Lynn Connolly, MD Ph.D. postdoctoral studies
1999-2001. Mary Cashman