Past Personnel – LCC LAB

Maddie Callan

Junior Specialist – Researcher

Maddie is a junior specialist at the Carvajal-Carmona wet lab. She is currently working in the wet lab primarily on the WYETH breast cancer genomics project and helping the lab run smoothly. She graduated with a BA in Neuroscience from Scripps college and her thesis there was focused on neuromelanin in Parkinson’s Disease. She spends her free time playing board games, video games, creating art and engaging in a variety of solo sports.

Adrian Quiroz

Junior Specialist – Researcher

Adrian recently graduated from UC Davis in 2022 with a degree in Biological Sciences. He started off as a volunteer on the bioinformatics team and transitioned to the wet lab where he eventually got hired as a junior specialist. As a full-time researcher in the lab, Adrian primarily works on cancer studies centered around minority populations by testing drug efficacy with in vivo (mice) and in vitro (organoid) models. In his free time, Adrian enjoys reading, playing video games and cooking.

Katherine Chiu

Junior Specialist – Bioinformatics

Katherine received her Bachelor of Science in Genetics and Genomics and Bachelor of Arts in Music from UC Davis in 2022. She is interested in the intersection of data science and healthcare– specifically, using genomics to address racial and ethnic cancer health disparities. As a researcher in the lab, she has been conducting local ancestry analyses to characterize ancestral differences in cancer development. In her spare time, Katherine enjoys playing trombone, hiking, and surfing.

Catalina Rubio

Visiting Graduate Researcher

Catalina is a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Tolima, she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Biology at the same institution. She has been working with the sister laboratory of Carvajal-Carmona in Colombia, “Cytogenetics, Phylogeny and Population Evolution Group” (GCFEP) since 2018 as a young researcher, in population genetics diseases analysis, which is her main area of interest, specifically the structure and genetic load in Colombian indigenous communities

Daniel F. Molina Campos

Visiting Graduate Researcher

Daniel is from Colombia, where he obtained his BS in Biology in 2018 and started his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences in 2020 at the University of Tolima. Since 2018 he became a member of the Cytogenetics, Phylogeny, and Populations Evolution Research Group (GCFEP-UT) of the same institution, where he’s developing his doctoral research focused on searching and discovering genetic risk factors related to cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes in some Colombian indigenous communities, through NGS approaches; aiming to provide early prevention tools that could enhance and strengthen public health strategies in these vulnerable ethnic groups, which remain geographically isolated and experience notable health disparities.

Recently Daniel joined the Carvajal-Carmona group (2022) as a research scholar to receive bioinformatical training in WES data analysis and continue his research. He likes to spend his leisure time doing outdoor activities such as bike riding, hiking, camping, and rock climbing.