Lloyd-Smith Lab

The Group

Lab Holiday Party a few years ago!



Principal Investigator

Jamie Lloyd-Smith

Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Los Angeles
Curriculum Vitae

Contact
Office: 4135 Terasaki Life Sciences Building
(310) 206-8207
Lab: 4000 Terasaki Life Sciences Building
(310) 206-8203
jlloydsmith@ucla.edu

Address
610 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Box 723905
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7239

Research Associate

Katie Prager

Post-doctoral Researchers

Benny Borremans

Amandine Gamble

Dylan Morris

Dave Daversa

Graduate Students

Ana Gomez

Angela Guglielmino

Sarah Helman

Celine Snedden

Elizabeth Blackmore

Undergraduate Students

Sameer Chowdhury

Caitlin Cox

Philip Lee

Lab Alumni

  • Riley Mummah
  • Amanda Tokuyama
  • Christian Mason
  • Carlie Leary
  • Oshiomah Oyageshio (now a Graduate Student with Brenna Henn at Univerisity of California Davis)
  • Katie Gostic (now a Postdoctoral Fellow with Sarah Cobey at University of Chicago)
  • Lei Dai (now a Professor in the Institute of Synthetic Biology at Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  • Monique Ambrose (now a Research Scientist at the Institute for Disease Modeling)
  • Miran Park (now working as a software engineer)
  • Michael Buhnerkempe (now a Research Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine)
  • Claude Loverdo (now a Researcher at the CNRS in Paris)
  • Ruian Ke (now Staff Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory)
  • Philip Bulterys (MSTP rotation student, now working in Jeff Miller's group in Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics)
  • Seth Blumberg (now doing research at University of California, San Francisco)
  • Chris Strelioff (now doing research at University of California, Davis)
  • Juliet Pulliam (now Director of the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA))
  • Aurelien Puiseux (visiting student from Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)
  • Aubrey Butler
  • Hubert Tang
  • Jessica Kasamoto (Bruins in Genomic Summer Program, now a Graduate Student at Columbia University)
  • Natashia Benjamin (Bruins in Genomic Summer Program, now a Graduate Student at Penn State University)
  • Brianna Tarnower
  • Prianna Ahsan
  • Suruchi Salgar

Collaborators

The group maintains active collaborations with many infectious disease researchers. We are collaborating with many groups at UCLA, including:

  • Peggy Fong (UCLA Dept of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
  • David Haake (UCLA School of Medicine and Dept of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics)
  • Anne Rimoin (UCLA Dept of Epidemiology)
  • Marc Suchard (UCLA School of Medicine and Depts of Biomathematics and Human Genetics)
  • Ren Sun (UCLA School of Medicine and Dept of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology)
  • Dan Uslan (UCLA School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases)
  • Pamela Yeh (UCLA Dept of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)

We also have active and funded collaborations with numerous outside researchers, including: