Lab Members [to be updated]

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Suckjoon Jun

Suckjoon Jun [(07/2021-) Professor of Physics ] [email] [office 858-534-2384, UH6250] [lab 858-822-1090, UH6249] [Google scholar]

I am a theorist by training in soft-matter and biophysics. I started a wet lab as a Bauer Fellow at the FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University (2007-2012), and moved my lab to UCSD in 2012 to join the qBio initiative. My lab invented the mother machine and discovered the adder principle. Thanks to the work by people in my lab, I have received several awards, including the Allen Distinguished Investigator Award from the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group (2013-2016), Pew Scholars Award (2013-2016), NSF CAREER (2013-2018), the Lattimer Award (2019), and most recently the Michael and Kate Bárány Award by the Biophysical Society (2022).

Fangwei Si
Fangwei Si [postdoc, 2015-][email]
[Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, Sean Sun lab, Johns Hopkins University]

After five years in our lab, Fangwei is currently splitting his time between us and Lisa Racki's lab at TSRI, while preparing himself to start in physics at Carnegie Mellon University as a new assistant professor of physics in June, 2022

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Ryan Thiermann
Ryan Thiermann [graduate student, UCSD physics, qBio, 2017-]
[B.S. in physics, the University of Chicago] [email]

Before coming to the Jun lab, I studied physics and mathematics at the University of Chicago. Here, I am investigating how bacteria coordinate ribosome synthesis with growth as conditions vary. More generally, I’m intrigued by whether and how cellular resource allocation serves to maximize fitness in different environments.

Saransh Umale
Saransh Umale [graduate student,  UCSD biology, qBio, 2018-]
[B.S. in bioengineering, IIT Madras][Ray Thomas Edwards fellow][email]

I studied Biological Engineering (Bachelors & Masters) at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Chennai, India. There, I briefly worked on retroactivity in synthetic gene networks. At the Jun lab, I will study the growth of metazoan cellular systems.

Haochen Fu
Haochen Fu [graduate student, UCSD physics, 2019-]
[B.S. in physics, Peking University]

I received my BSc in Physics from Peking University in 2019. In Jun lab, I am widely interested in looking for physical laws and principles in biological systems by quantitative approaches. Specifically, I am studying the precision of the initiation time of chromosome replication, and the robustness of Min-protein oscillations.

Aaron Ren
Aaron Ren [graduate student, UCSD physics, 2020-]
[B.S. in physics, UCSD]

I started my undergraduate study at UCSD as a biophysics major student, and fell in love with looking into biological systems through the lens of simple and intuitive physics. I started to work as a lab assistant in Suckjoon's lab when I was a junior, exploring the behavior of division proteins in E. coli cells. Now, my graduate path is a continuation of my passion on biophysics and quantitative biology, and my first markstone on my graduate program will be on the topic of mitochondria topology within yeast cells. Utilizing digital micro mirror device and other microscopic techniques, I'm looking forward to unveiling the pattern of internal connection within mitochondria and to understanding the topology-physiology relation.

Aman Sharma
Aman Sharma [graduate student (UCSD physics, 2020-)]
[B.S. in physics, IIT Bombay] [email]

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Cara Jensen
Cara Jensen [undergraduate (UCSD physics/biophysics)]

After spending several years as a professional in the music and art industry, unexpected events shifted my creative energy toward biophysics. Here I have found a true passion for biological systems and how multidisciplinary approaches can further our understanding of them.

Taylor Rytlewski
Taylor Rytlewski [undergraduate (UCSD physics/biophysics)]
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