Past Lab Members

Past Porter Lab Members

For undergraduate students, only those who were team member for at least one year are listed. *Undergraduate Honor’s Thesis. In bold: first author or co-author on a peer reviewed publication.

Name

Awards and recognitions

CSULA Degree

Further whereabouts

  1. Dayana Caracamo

 

M.S.

M.D., UCLA

  1. Gloria Preza

Sally Casanova Scholar; Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program Fellow

M.S.

Ph.D., UCLA

  1. Jose Martinez

Winner at CSULA research competition- poster session; Sally Casanova Scholar

M.S.

Exited Ph.D. program at Albert Einstein, NY

  1. Omar Murillo

 

B.S.

Police force

  1. Erika Reynoso*

Winner at CSULA research competition- poster session; Sally Casanova Scholar

B.S.

Ph.D., Harvard

  1. Sandra Alvarez*

 

B.S.

Exited Ph.D. program at Albert Einstein, NY

  1. Safiehkhatoon Moshkani

 

M.S.

Ph.D. University of Rochester

  1. Marjannie Eloi

 

M.S.

Ph.D. candidate, UC Davis

  1. Heriberto Lima

Winner at CSULA research competition- oral session; Delegate to CSU statewide student research competition

M.S.

Ph.D., Albert Einstein, NY

  1. Michael Waldon

 

M.S.

Workforce

  1. Patricia Castillo

 

M.S.

Ph.D. candidate, UC Davis

  1. Annie Mirsoian

Sally Casanova Scholar

M.S.

Ph.D. candidate, UC Davis

  1. Annie Cheung

CSUPERB Travel Award; American Society for Microbiology  Travel Award

M.S.

Workforce

  1. Suda Anunta

 

M.S.

Community college faculty

  1. Adelina Pogosyan

 

B.S.

Clinical Laboratory Scientist Program, U of Nevada, Las Vegas

  1. Teresa Dominguez*

 

B.S.

Exited Ph.D. program at U of Colorado, Denver with an MS degree

  1. Abebayehu Yilma

Sally Casanova Scholar

M.S.

Ph.D., Alabama State University

  1. Michael Jansen

Sally Casanova Scholar

M.S.

Ph.D. candidate State University New York

  1. Angels Nugyen*

Winner at CSULA research competition- poster session

B.S.

Medical school applicant

  1. Ritam Wadwha*

 

B.S.

M.D. student

  1. Nadine Rodriguez

Winner at CSULA research competition- poster session; Sally Casanova Scholar; Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program Fellow

M.S.

Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Barbara

  1. Janine Gilkes

 

M.S.

Ph.D. candidate at U of Florida, Gainesville

  1. Natalie Sandoval

Winner at CSULA research competition- oral session and delegate to state wide competition

M.S.

Workforce

  1. Alexandra Huynh*

 

M.S.

Ph.D. candidate at Harvard

  1. Bertha Martin

 

M.S.

Ph.D. candidate at University of Iowa, Iowa City

  1. Jessica Ponce

Winner at CSULA research competition- poster session; Summer internship University of Iowa

M.S.

Ph.D. candidate at University of Iowa, Iowa City

  1. Trinidad Cisneros*

 

B.S.

Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University

  1. Jackie Kiwata

Winner at CSULA research competition- oral session and delegate to state wide competition; Western Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award

M.S.

Ph.D. candidate at USC

  1. Daniel Ma

Delegate to CSU statewide student research competition; Summer internship Taiwan

M.S.

M.D. student at the University of Iowa, Iowa City

  1. Yessenia Velazco

Winner at CSULA research competition- poster session

M.S.

Workforce

  1. Maryna Glavatska

 

M.S.

Workforce

 
  1. Raquel Rodriguez

Winner at SACNAS poster session; Winner at CSULA research competition- poster session; Summer internship UC Santa Cruz

B.S.

Ph.D. student at Boston University

  1. Giovanna Pozuelos

Sally Casanova Scholar

M.S.

Ph.D. student at UC Riverside

  1. Jessica Vazquez

 

M.S.

Ph.D. student at University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

Summer interns

Name

Feeder campus

  1. Melissa Portillo

East Los Angeles College

  1. Cindi Barajas

East Los Angeles College

  1. Jazmine Zhou

High school student

  1. Evangelina Morfin

Los Angeles City College

  1. Karina Hernandez

East Los Angeles College

  1. Daniel Delgado

East Los Angeles College

  1. Juan Morales

East Los Angeles College

  1. Dawn Au

High school student

  1. Ubaldo Fausto

Pasadena City College

  1. Amanda Lopez

Pasadena City College

  1. Philipe Bolzan

University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

  1. Nicholette Pollock

East Los Angeles College  

  1. Abril Jaime

East Los Angeles College