Lab Members



Principal Investigator

Elaine Tobin

Dr. Elaine Tobin

(etobin@ucla.edu); Professor, Principal Investigator. In addition to teaching, writing grants, and supervising research, Elaine enjoys Scottish Country dancing and hiking.

Postdoctoral Fellows and Graduate Students

Simon Barak

Simon Barak

(sbarak@biology.ucla.edu); Postdoctoral Fellow from Israel.
Xavier Daniel

Xavier Daniel

(xavierd@lifesci.ucla.edu); Postdoctoral Fellow from France; PhD studies at INRA/CNRS at Toulouse, France. Xavier is working on phoshorylation of CCA1, as well as on CCA1-interacting proteins.
Rachel Green

Rachel Green

(rmgreen@ucla.edu); Postdoctoral Fellow from England; PhD studies at the John Innes Centre at Norwich, UK, followed by postdoctoral work in Israel at the Weizmann Institute. Following work on pathogen signalling pathways, Rachel is working on the isolation of phytochrome signalling mutants, as well as the isolation and characterization of CCA1 mutants. 
Stephen Knowles

Stephen Knowles

(sknowles@ucla.edu); Graduate student; B.S. in Biology from UC Irvine. Stephen is interested in the role CCA1 plays in setting clock rhythms. In his spare time, he can be spotted mountain biking the trails of the Santa Monica Mountains

Administrative Assistant

 
Michal Barak

Michal Barak

(mbarak@obee.ucla.edu); Administrative Assistant.

Undergraduates

Joanne Chan

Chris Dissanayake

(chrisdiss@hotmail.com); 
Jessica Koyanagi

Ernesto Leon

(eleon@ucla.edu); 
Ana Lozano

Ana Laura Lozano

(alozano7@ucla.edu); 
Chan Shing "Sam" Sun

Chan Shing "Sam" Sun

(ssschan@ucla.edu); Lab Helper.
Florence Tse

Florence Tse

(email);

Former Lab Members

Christos Andronis -- Bioinformatics
Shoji Sugano -- National Institute of Agribiological Resources, Japan
Eitan Harel -- Hebrew University, Israel
Sonia Tingay -- Narrabri, Australia
Sharlene Weatherwax -- Department of Energy
Zhi-Yong Wang -- Salk Institute 
Jeff Buzby -- Children's Hospital of Orange County
Shirley Williams -- Children's Hospital of Orange County
Judy Brusslan -- California State University of Long Beach 
Steve Rolfe -- Sheffield University
AntonioReineiro -- American Cyanamid
Lin Sun -- Nemapharm 
Lu Huang -- Massachusetts General Hospital
Pat Okubara -- Washington State University
Jane Silverthorne -- University of California, Santa Cruz & N.S.F. 
Bruce Kohorn -- Duke University
Humphrey Foote -- University of Nottingham 
David Kehoe -- Indiana University 
David Kenigsbuch -- Bar Ilan University
George Karlin-Neumann -- Stanford University
Joerg Degenhardt -- Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Ökologie
May Ong -- University of California, Los Angeles