People
The people of the Pride Laboratory.
A lab that spans discovery and the clinic — from high-school students to physician-scientists, and more than a hundred alumni now across medicine, dentistry and science.
Life in and out of the lab — La Jolla, California
Principal Investigator
David T. Pride, MD PhD
Dr. Pride is originally from Nashville, Tennessee. He received his undergraduate degree in biology from Wake Forest University and entered the MSTP program at Vanderbilt University. He received his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Vanderbilt University in the laboratory of Dr. Martin Blaser and completed his M.D. at New York University. He finished his medical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Internal Medicine, and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Stanford University. He then moved to The University of California, San Diego and serves as the Director of the Clinical Molecular Microbiology Laboratory and as the Associate Director of the Microbiology Laboratory. He also runs a research laboratory dedicated to human microbiome and human virome work. Dr. Pride has been working to understand how we might better understand the interactions between phages and their host bacteria for phage therapy. Dr. Pride's other major interests are in developing diagnostic tests for infectious diseases, and in understanding the role of microbial communities in human health and disease.
Current members (32)
Gizem Altinok
BS/MS Student
Alicia Amamoto
Research Associate, CLS Student, PALMS Lab
Aditi Bandaru
Undergraduate Student
Monica Bates
Research Associate, PALMS Lab manager
Kevin Canlas
BS/MS Student
Victoria Carrico
Research Associate, PALMS Lab
Ana Cobian, PhD
Project Scientist
President's Fellow
Crystal Gonzalez-Navarrette
Volunteer, PALMS Lab
Arvind Gouttumukkala
Graduate Student
Lauren Hopper
Undergraduate Student
Gunnar Idsvoog
Undergraduate Student
Erin Kang
BS/MS Student
Jessie Kim
BS/MS Student
Leah Kim
BS/MS Student
Arjun Konijeti
High School Student
Jesse Leonard
Research Associate, PALMS Lab
Bryson Liu
BS/MS Student
Maria Monserrat
Visiting Student
Matthew Nagel
High School Student
Yurika Nakamura
Visiting Scholar
Anjali Naran
Undergraduate Student
Albert Nasr
Undergraduate Student
Zachary Pride
High School Student
Reed Quiambao
BS/MS Student
Brandon Saiki
BS/MS Student
Madeleine Schwab
Summer Student
Social Media Intern
Shrinithie Senthilkumar
Undergraduate Student
Gabrielle Shapiro
Research Associate
Andrew Sue
Graduate Student, SDSU/UCSD
Alice Tardieu
High School Student
Norhan Turki
Volunteer
Tien Vo
Undergraduate Student
Alumni highlights
On to bigger and better things.
Where the lab's people go next — medical and dental school, graduate programs, fellowships, and the occasional new arrival.
- Rachel Palm — UCI — Medical Student
- Jesse Leonard — UCSD — CLS Student
- Alicia Amamoto — UCSD — CLS Student
- Lauren Hopper — UCSD — Awarded Summer Research Scholarship
- Prabh Singh — UCSD — Accepted to medical school
- Shareen Chung — UCSD — CLS Student
- Lou-Lena Vrignaud — Accepted to graduate program in France
- Manola Orlatti — Accepted to graduate program in Copenhagen
- Connor Dam — UCD — Returning to UCSD graduate program
- Pooja Ghatbale — UCSD — Our first publication in Nature Communications
- Welcomed baby Ghatbale!
- Priya Singh — UCSD — Accepted to Johns Hopkins Graduate Program
- Alisha Blanc — UCSD — Accepted to Berkeley Graduate Program
- Sirius Wang — Accepted to Columbia Undergraduate
- Ana Cobian — President's Fellowship
- Welcomed baby Cobian-Guemes!
- Joseph Oh — UCSD — Obtained his masters
- Marissa Proost — UCSD — Obtained CLS degree
- Natasha Kanhirun — UCSD — Obtained MS degree
- Emma Ellefson-Frank — UCSD — Accepted to medical school
- Ethan Khong — UCSD — Accepted to medical school
- Khrissa LeCrone — UCSD — CLS degree
- Welcomed baby Lecrone!
- Peiting Kuo — UCSD — CLS degree
- Megan Chiu — UCSD — CLS degree
- Jenny Shin — UCSD — CLS degree
- Ryan McKinzie — UCSD — CLS degree
- Josh Borin — UCSD — PhD degree from Justin Meyer's lab
- Lina Huang — UCSD — Graduated medical school
- Job Shiach — UCSD — Graduated medical school
- Nicole Hitchcock — Graduated medical school
- Tovia Bavly — UCSD — Graduated medical school
- Jonathan Gao — UCSD — Graduated dental school
- Andrew Lum — UCSD — Graduated dental school
- Ivan Chan — UCSD — Graduated dental school
- Vivian Lin — UCSD — CLS degree
Former members (117)
More than a hundred students, scholars, residents and research associates have passed through the lab.
- Mayuri Naidu, Staff Research Associate
- Refugio Robles-Sikisaka, Ph.D., Postdoc
- Nitya Rao, Undergraduate Student
- Christina Yeh, Undergraduate Student
- Madona Khoshabafard, Undergraduate Student
- Ray-Young Tsao, Undergraduate Student
- Rami Michael, Resident
- Andrew Lum, DDS
- Philip Herbert, Undergraduate Student
- Ryan McKinzie, Undergraduate Student, CLS
- Leslie Yip, Undergraduate Student
- Jonathan Gao, Dental Student
- Gabrielle Pine, Undergraduate Student
- Zachary Baldwin, Masters Student
- Jessica Chopyk, PhD, Postdoc
- Hedieh Attai, PhD, Postdoc
- Serena McCarthy, MS, Virtual Intern
- Lina Huang, BS, Lab Manager, Medical Student
- Sam Penziner, MD, Infectious Diseases Physician
- Grace Kovalick, MS
- Nicole Hitchcock, BS, Medical Student
- Valeria Bonomie, Undergraduate Student
- Christine Do, Undergraduate Student
- Andrea Lay Kwoon, PharmD, Visiting Scholar
- Erin Natale, BS, Masters Student
- Govind Sah, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar
- Megan Chiu, CLS
- Josh Borin, PhD
- Kanza Batool, Visiting Graduate Student
- Ethan Khong, Research Associate, Medical Student
- Khrissa LeCrone, CLS
- Emma Ellefson-Frank, Undergraduate Student
- Madison Wong, Undergraduate Student, Social Media Intern
- Taek Soo Kim, MD, Visiting Scholar
- April Castaneda, Undergraduate Student
- Joseph Oh, MS
- Faiza Naz, Visiting Graduate Student
- Danielle Devequi Gomez Nunes, Visiting Graduate Student
- Maranda Stricklin, Undergraduate Student
- Sirius Wang, High School Student
- Grace Taylor, BS/MS Student
- Alisha Blanc, BS, Lab Manager
- Tia Cherabie, Undergraduate Student
- Josiah Peng, Undergraduate Student
- Anh Tran, Research Associate
- Veronica Huang, Undergraduate Student
- Tonny Thi, BS, Undergraduate Student
- Marine Tournier, MS
- Kristin Eli, Undergraduate Student, OSU
- Lou-Lena Vrignaud, Visiting Student
- Jeong-hwan Hwang, MD, Visiting Scholar
- Bethzabe Serrano Buelna, Undergraduate Student
- Gabe Koch, Undergraduate Student
- Cole Souza, MS, Lab Manager
- Jessica D'Angelo, CLS
- Sunggyun Park, MD, Visiting Scholar
- Ferg Duffy Schwartz, BS/MS Student
- Nathaniel Wood, BS/MS Student
- Melissa Ly, Lab Manager, Staff Research Associate
- Tasha Santiago-Rodriguez, Ph.D., Postdoc
- Shira Abeles, MD, Infectious Diseases Physician
- Abdul Saboory, Undergraduate Student
- Kevin Johnson, Undergraduate Student
- Tovia Bavly, MD
- Leila Schwanemann, Lab Manager, Staff Research Associate
- Katayoon Atabakhsh, Undergraduate Student
- Victoria Popov, Undergraduate Student
- Kevin Wu, Undergraduate Student
- Ivan Chan, Dental Student
- Ravi Sadhu, Undergraduate Student
- Olympia Alvarez, CLS, MPH
- Kathya Arana-Fernandez Garrido, Undergraduate Student
- Nicola Mangieri, Visiting Graduate Student
- Jenny Shin, BS, CLS
- Thaidra Gaufin, MD PhD, Infectious Diseases Physician
- Joseph Tygart, High School Student
- Lei Wang, Visiting Scholar
- Lamya Lokhandwala, Undergraduate Student
- Vivian Lin, CLS
- Claudia Sanchez-Ramirez, MD, Infectious Diseases Physician
- Roland Liu, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar
- Jasmine Chung, MD, Visiting Scholar
- Dustin Heeney, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar
- Alison Rhoads, Undergraduate Student
- My Nguyen, CLS
- Job Shiach, Medical Student
- Peiting Kuo, CLS
- Jaehoon Kim, Undergraduate Student
- Samuel Gabovitz, Undergraduate Student
- Kristin Nghiem
- Katja Suster, Visiting Scholar
- Brandon Sharp, Volunteer
- Marissa Proost, CLS
- Addie Pavkov, Visiting Undergraduate Student
- Lilian Zeng, High School Student
- Zachary Pride, High School Student
- Manola Orlotti, Visiting Student
- Yaron Fireizen, MD, Pulm/ID
- Andrew Garcia, Lab Manager, Clinical Coordinator
- Natasha Kanhirun, MS
- Ludwig Wang, BS/MS Student
- Priya Singh, Undergraduate Student
- Pooja Ghatbale, MS, Senior Research Associate
- Rose Bero, MS, Volunteer
- Karyme Rodriguez, BS, Undergraduate Student
- Andrew Su, BS, Undergraduate Student
- Issam Ben Salem, PhD, Visiting Scholar
- Connor Dam, Undergraduate Student
- Mint Ruangritchai, Undergraduate Student
- Saeam Song, Visiting Scholar
- Shareen Chung, PALMS Lab, CLS Student
- Prab Singh, Medical Student
- Esmerelda Rico, Undergraduate Student
- Emma Bell, Visiting Undergraduate Student
- Andrew Phan, Undergraduate Student
- Joshua Martin, Undergraduate Student
- Rachel Palm, Medical Student