Letts and Maldonado Labs at the Zoo, Summer 2023
From left to right: Dr. Maldonado, Dr. Letts, Chemisty graduate student Liam Twomey, Undergraduate researcher Yuxin Jiang, Project Scientist Abhilash Padavannil (added with Photoshop), MARC summer researcher Malik Hassan, BMCDB graduate student Maria Ayala, BioGAP summer researcher Patrick Roehling, BMCDB graduate student EImy Castellanos (added with Photoshop), Lab manager Clare Bolduc and Avenue B undergraduate researcher Katia Campos.
Letts Lab at the California Raptor Center, Winter 2023
From left to right: Rotation Student Woori Choi, Lab manager Clare Bolduc, Junior Specialist Ziyi Fan, Dr. Letts, BMCDB student Maria Ayala, ADAR Student Malik Hassan, Project Scientist Abhilash Padavannil and Undergraduate researcher Peiyi (Nina) Liu.
Letts Lab Spring 2021
From left to right: María Ayala, Andrea Lopez Arguello, Dr. María Maldonado, Dr. James Letts, Eimy Castellanos, Dr. Abhilash Padavannil
Letts Lab Summer 2019
James A. Letts, PhD
Assistant Professor
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9864-3586
Contact: jaletts at ucdavis dot edu
Abhilash Padavannil, PhD
Assistant Project Scientist
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9949-6776
Dong Woo Shin, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar
Clare Bolduc, Staff Research Scientist
Graduate Student Members
María Ayala (BMCDB)
American Heart Association Pre-doctoral Fellow
HHMI Gilliam Scholar
Eimy Castellanos (BMCDB)
American Heart Association Pre-doctoral Fellow
Undergraduate Members
Hannah Tan, Undergraduate researcher
Malik Hassan, ADAR and MARC Scholar
Peiyi (Nina) Liu, Undergraduate researcher
Shreya Kate, Undergraduate researcher
Honorary Members
Forest the Great Horned Owl
The Letts Lab adopted Forest after their trip to the California Raptor Center in February of 2023
Former Members
Ziyi Fan, Undergraduate Researcher and Junior Specialist
Maria Maldonado, PhD
Contact: mmaldo at ucdavis dot edu
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3428-1053
Katia Campos, Avenue B research scholar
Patrick Roehling
BioGap Summer Researcher
Kaitlyn Abe
Andrea Lopez Arguello
Rodolfo Murguia
Qiyuan Zhou
Chad Goodwin
Caleb Bower
Maria Guadalupe Zaragoza
Long Zhou, PhD
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