Katherine Susa

PI/Sandler Fellow

Katherine joined UCSF as a Sandler Fellow in February 2023 in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. She graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in Chemistry and received her PhD in Chemical Biology from Harvard University in 2022. She studied the structure and dynamics of the B cell co-receptor complex as a co-mentored graduate student with Andrew Kruse and Steve Blacklow.

Kevin Delgado-Cunningham

Biophysics graduate student (co-mentored with Klim Verba)

Kevin got his bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. After graduating he spent two years as a technician in Rebecca DuBois’ group at UCSC, where he worked on the structural biology underlying cell entry by human astroviruses.

Kevin Alexander Estrada Alamo

Biophysics graduate student (co-mentored with Tanja Kortemme)

Kevin graduated from Western Washington University with a B.S. in Biochemistry. During undergrad, they studied the structural constraints of ligand specificity of PDZ and SH2 domains in Jeanine Amacher’s lab at Western, and how ligands are recognized and activate integrins in Melody Campbell’s lab at Fred Hutch. Now in their Ph.D., Kevin is using protein design to probe how clustering behaviors of the BCR and other co-receptors affect BCR signaling. Kevin’s hobbies are designing clothes and jewelry.

Aly Granados

Junior Specialist

Alyana, a recent graduate of Williams College with a B.A. in Biology, actively participated in two labs during her undergraduate years. Her most recent lab experience was under the guidance of Matt Carter, where she studied the anatomical and functional connectivity between two distinct neural populations in the mouse brain responsible for regulating food intake. She plans to remain here for 2 years before pursuing graduate studies in the fall of 2025.

Tracy Lou

Biophysics graduate student (co-mentored with Jim Wells)

Tracy grew up in Orange County, CA and went to UC Berkeley for undergrad, where she studied mathematics and biochemistry. Prior to graduate school, she worked in the Heald lab investigating novel regulators of mitotic spindle assembly and in the Narlikar lab studying chromatin phase separation. Outside of science, she enjoys running, reading, backpacking, traveling, and cooking great food with friends.