Michi Taga – Principal Investigator
Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
Email: taga [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Ph.D. Molecular Biology Princeton University
B.A. Biology Carleton College
Michi Taga received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University, where she investigated the function of the quorum sensing autoinducer AI-2 in the laboratory of Bonnie Bassler. She conducted postdoctoral research on bacteria-host interactions and vitamin B12 biosynthesis in the laboratory of Graham Walker at MIT and has been a faculty member at UC Berkeley since 2009.
Kenny Mok – Project scientist
Email: kenmok [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Dennis Suazo – Graduate student
Email: dennissuazo [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Eleanor Wang – Graduate student
Email: eleanorwang [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Cami Scantlin – Graduate student
Email: cscantlin [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Ashley Eng – Graduate student
co-mentored with Eoin Brodie
Email: ashleyeng [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Sandy Nguyen – Graduate student
Email: sandy_nguyen [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Clara Bardeen – Undergraduate student
Lab Alumni
Postdocs
Zachary Hallberg
Janani Hariharan
Sebastian Gude
Nicole Abreu
Florian Widner
Amrita Hazra
Andrew Han
Graduate students
Zoila Alvarez-Aponte
Rebecca Procknow
Alexa Nicolas
Gordon Pherribo
Kristopher Kennedy
Amanda Shelton
Olga Sokolovskaya
Erica Seth
Terence Crofts
Post-bac and visiting researchers
Farrah Sherdil
Hazel Anagu
Kathryn Quanstrom
Juan Carlos Crespo-Rivas
Undergraduate students
Gabe Trapse
Lesley Rodriguez
Maxwell Kluba
Myka Green
Catherine Fields
Soohan Woo
Victoria Innocent
Allen Xun Lyu
Kimberly Kang
Joseph Maa
Clare Yue Lou
Anna Grimaldo
Jenny Marino
Jong Duk Park
Eshwar Manoharan
Tristan Jordan
Elizabeth Lee
Jennifer Tan
Vadim Osadchiy
Carolyn Yen
Jasmine Aimua
Shelley Shi
Marielle Bolano
Kai Dao
Upasana Niyogi
Andrea Oneto
Jennifer Tran
Huntly Morrison
Judi Abegania
Ta-Yi (Jack) Yu
Taga Lab 