People

Deepak Srivastava, M.D., Director

e-mail:
dsrivastava@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Karen Carver-Moore, Senior Research Associate and Lab Manager

e-mail:
karen.carvermoore@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Will Collins, Visiting Researcher

e-mail:
william.collins@ucsf.edu

Kim Cordes, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow

e-mail:
kcordes@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Barbie Bechtel Curtis, Administrative Assistant

e-mail:
bbcurtis@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Melissa Evangelista, Visiting Researcher

e-mail:
melissa.evangelista@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Jason Fish, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow

e-mail:
jefish@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Yu Huang, Research Technician

e-mail:
yuhuang@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Masaki Ieda, M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow

e-mail:
mieda@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Kathy Ivey , Ph.D., Staff Research Investigator, Director of Gladstone Stem Cell Core

• Using mouse models to study transcriptional regulation of heart development with prior emphasis on neural crest-derived structures
• Interested in identifying direct transcriptional
  targets through the use of ChIP-on-Chip technology

e-mail:
kivey@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Isabelle King, M.D., Assistant Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, UCSF

e-mail:
iking@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Chulan Kwon, Ph.D., Research Scientist

e-mail:
ckwon@gladstone.ucsf.edu

• Aortic valve calcification
• Cardiac growth and development
• Mechanisms of congenital heart disease

e-mail:
vnigam@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Li Qian , Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow

e-mail:
lqian@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Eva Samal, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow

• Developing new strategies to facilitate miRNA target identification
• Dissecting role of miR1 in proliferation vs diferentiation
• Identifying new functions for micro RNAs in heart and skeletal muscle

e-mail:
esamal@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Neil Sheehy, Ph.D. Candidate

e-mail:
nsheehy@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Joseph Shieh, M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow

e-mail:
jshieh@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Bethany Taylor, M.P.A., Executive Assistant

• Webmaster
• Laboratory/Institute administration
• Grants coordinator
• Scheduling, travel, special events

e-mail:
btaylor@gladstone.ucsf.edu

• Cardiac electrophysiology
• Cardiac conduction system development

e-mail:
vedanthamv@medicine.ucsf.edu

Mark White, Ph.D. candidate

e-mail:
mwhite@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Valeria Yartseva, Reasearch Associate

email:

valeria.yartseva@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Sangho Yu, Ph.D. candidate

• The role of thymosin beta 4 in protection of cardiac injury
• The role of thymosin beta 4 in cardiac development
• The regulation of thymosin beta 4 expression in heart

e-mail:
syu@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Graduate/Medical Students
Garrett Gotway
Stephanie Pierce - Postdoctoral Fellow, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital
Ankur Saxena - Postdoctoral Fellow, CalTech
Irfan S. Kathiriya - Resident at UCSF
Aparna Aiyer - Senior Scientist, Gen-Probe Inc., San Diego, CA
Josh Ransom - Associate Consultant, McKinsey & Co.
Sarah Morton - Medical student at UCSF
Linda Van Laake - Cardiology Resident, University Medical Center, Utrecht

Postdoctoral Fellows
Vidu Garg - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics & Molecular Biology, UTSW
Angela Hu - Scientist, Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals
Ildiko Bock-Marquette - Instructor, UTSW
Jun Maeda - Keio University, Tokyo
Hiroyuki Yamagishi - Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Keio University, Tokyo
Chihiro Yamagishi - Keio University, Tokyo
Osamu Nakagawa - Assistant Professor, UTSW
Aruna Natarajan - Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
Chong Park - Research Specialist, Diabetes Center, UCSF
Takatoshi Tsuchihashi - Keio University, Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology
Yong Zhao - Assistant Professor, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York

Research Technicians
Kelly Gardner
Marie Schluterman
Alecia Muth - studying for her MBA at the University of San Francisco
Morgan von Drehle

If you are a former lab member and would like us to add any info to this page, please contact Bethany Taylor.

Last modified July 7, 2009.