Members

IGI Investigators are a select group of world-class researchers at UC Berkeley, UCSF, UC Davis, Gladstone Institutes, and affiliated institutions, advancing the field of genome engineering to treat human disease, enable sustainable agriculture, and help achieve a carbon-neutral economy.

IGI research is also supported by a network of affiliates, as well as many postdocs and graduate students in Investigator labs who contribute significant time and resources to support the IGI mission.

IGI Investigators

Banfield Lab (UC Berkeley)

Braverman Lab (UC Berkeley)

Cate Lab (UC Berkeley)

Plant Genomics & Transformation Facility (UC Berkeley)

Clelland Lab (UCSF)

Cress Lab (UC Berkeley)

Diamond Lab (UC Berkeley)

Doudna Lab (UC Berkeley)

Moi Lab (UC Berkeley)

IGI Clinical Laboratory (UC Berkeley)

Michelle Hermiston, M.D., Ph. D.

(UCSF)

Hess Lab (UC Davis)

Hockemeyer Lab (UC Berkeley)

(UC Berkeley, UCSF)

Kebreab Lab (UC Davis)

Lemaux Lab (UC Berkeley)

Hanqin Li, Ph.D.

Advanced Translational Genetics Laboratory

Lynch Lab (UCSF)

Marson Lab (UCSF)

Murthy Lab (UC Berkeley)

Nguyen Lab (UCSF)

Niyogi Lab (UC Berkeley)

Nomura Lab (UC Berkeley)

Nuñez Lab (UC Berkeley)

(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Center for CRISPR Target Discovery (UC Berkeley)

Ronald Lab (UC Davis)

Ronda Lab (UC Berkeley)

Rubin Lab (UC Berkeley)

BIOME (UC Berkeley)

Savage Lab (UC Berkeley)

Shih Lab (UC Berkeley)

Brian Shy, Ph.D.

Shy Lab (UCSF)

Staskawicz Lab (UC Berkeley)

Sundaresan Lab (UC Davis)

Urnov Lab (UC Berkeley)

Wilson Lab (UC Berkeley)

IGI Affiliates

Bateup Lab (UC Berkeley)

Firestone Lab (UC Berkeley)

Glass Lab (UC Berkeley)

Faculty page (UC Berkeley)

Hsiung Lab (UCSF)

Hsu Lab (UC Berkeley)

Khanday Lab (UC Davis) (UC Davis)

Broad Stem Cell Research Center (UCLA)

Krasileva Lab (UC Berkeley)

Lareau Lab (UC Berkeley)

Marshall Lab (UC Berkeley)

Näär Lab (UC Berkeley)

Nogales Lab (UC Berkeley)

Ott Lab (Gladstone Institutes)

Alpha Stem Cell Clinic (UCSF)

Williams Lab (UC Berkeley)

IGI Fellows

Thyago Leal Calvo, Ph.D.

IDOR Fellow, Urnov Lab

WIES Fellow (2024-2025)

P.I. Microbiome Editing Applications, WIES Fellow (2024-2025), Ronda Lab

Judee Sharon, Ph.D.

WIES Fellow (2024-2025)

Bruno Solano, Ph.D.

IDOR Fellow, Wilson Lab

WIES Fellow (2024-2025)

Postdoctoral Researchers and Senior Scientists

Dror Assa, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Nguyen Lab

Hema Choudhary, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Murthy Lab

Kaitlin Creamer, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Banfield Lab

Oliver (Xiaoou) Dong

Postdoc, Ronald Lab

Alex Ehrenberg, Ph.D.

IGI Translational Health Fellow, UCSF Memory and Aging Center

Daniel Gittins, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Banfield Lab

Utku Goreke, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Nguyen Lab

Allison Guitor, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Banfield Lab

Hesong Han, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Murthy Lab

Alissa Kleinhenz, M.D.

Clinical Fellow, Nguyen Lab

Bethany Kolody, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Banfield Lab

Andreja Kust, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Banfield Lab

Jie Li

Postdoc, Murthy Lab

Dengpan Liang, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Murthy Lab

Nikolin Oberleitner

Postdoc, Banfield Lab

Kundansingh Pardeshi, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Murthy Lab

Lorena Parra, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Krasileva Lab

Bryan Pavlovic, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Pollen Lab

Noam Prywes, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Savage Lab

Yalin Qi, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Murthy Lab

Marie Schoelmerich, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Banfield Lab

Rohit Sharma, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Murthy Lab

Ling-Dong Shi, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Banfield Lab

Abdullah Syed, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Doudna Lab

Janina Tamborski, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Krasileva Lab

Geoffrey Daniel Vrla, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Staskawicz Lab

Mikhail Vysotskiy, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Nguyen Lab

Elliot Weiss, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Banfield Lab

Qiong Zhang, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Staskawicz & Dueber Labs

Sheng Zhao, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Murthy Lab

Jacqueline Zorz, Ph.D.

Postdoc, Banfield Lab