Meet Us

Staff & Associated Academics

Siqi Hu, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
Siqi integrates high-throughput genetic screening and advanced imaging in human hepatocytes to identify therapeutic targets regulating lipid metabolism.

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Carley Dearing, PhD DVM

Postdoctoral Researcher
Carley uses translational models of cardiometabolic disease to understand the physiologic basis of sex-specific disease states in people and animals. Outside of work, Carley loves to read, spend time with her family, and give back to the veterinary community.

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Chelsea Bottomley, BS

Lab Manager
Chelsea oversees the day-to-day logistics and provides essential operational support that enables our  research. Outside the lab, she enjoys playing games with family and friends and spending time with her many pets.

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Michelle Wang, BS

Staff Research Associate
Michelle is interested in statistical modeling to interpret genetic disorders. Outside of the lab, she enjoys pilates, cafe hopping, and going to concerts.

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Tamar Dishon, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher
Tamar helps keep the day-to-day operations running smoothly. Outside the lab, she builds sealed terrariums and sharpens her problem-solving instincts on lethal killer sudoku puzzles.

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Undergraduate Students

Alisa Zhang

Undergraduate student
Alisa is learning how to perform genetic and causal inference analyses. In her free time, she enjoys skateboarding, playing frisbee, sim racing, and building random things at hackathons.

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Yuntian Zhao

Undergraduate student
Yuntian is applying single cell foundation models to discover driving genes in diabetes. He likes to play video games and listen to music in his free time.

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Alumni

Former Majithia Lab members have gone on to graduate training, medical school, postdoctoral research, industry roles, and research positions across academia and biotechnology.

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Guru Bhavimani, PhD — 2022-2024
  • Maryam Jalali, PhD — 2022-2024
  • Rizaldy Zapata, PhD — 2022-2023
  • Simran Kaur, PhD — 2020-2021
  • Karen Mendez, PhD — 2020-2023

Doctoral and Medical Trainees

  • Natalie DeForest, PhD – Biomedical Sciences, UC San Diego, 2019-2023
  • Xiaomi Du, PhD — Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, UC San Diego, 2020-2025
  • Emily Kobayashi, PhD – Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, UC San Diego, 2021-2025
  • Arjana Begzati, PhD – Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, UC San Diego, 2021-2025
  • Sophie Chang, MD – UC San Diego School of Medicine, 2025

Undergraduate Alumni

  • Aanika Desai — UC San Diego, 2024-2025
  • Angela Liu — UC San Diego, 2022-2024
  • Michelle Wang — UC San Diego, 2021-2024
  • Ruben Hernandez — UC San Diego, 2019-2022
  • Deana Guan — UC San Diego, 2020-2022
  • Vaishnavi Khadavili — UC San Diego, 2019-2023
  • Zhiyi Zhu — UC San Diego, 2020-2023
  • Adela Malik — UC San Diego, 2019-2020
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