Our Members

Current Members

Karl Willert

Principal Investigator
kwillert@ucsd.edu

Karl received his PhD from UCSF, did his post-doctoral research at Stanford, and joined UCSD as Assistant Professor in 2008. He is currently a Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine.

Pooja Sonavane

Post-Doctoral Fellow
psonavane@ucsd.edu

Pooja joined the lab in 2018, after completing her PhD at the University of Virginia.

Myan Do

Ph.D. Candidate
mydo@ucsd.edu

Diana Gumber

Lab Manager
digumber@ucsd.edu

Diana graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2015 with a Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science and Biology. She completed a MS in Regenerative Medicine from Cal Poly SLO as a CIRM intern in the lab in June 2017. After graduating with her MS degree, Diana joined the lab as a Research Technician. She is currently studying the potential of targeting the Frizzled 7 receptor in the WNT signaling pathway as an anti-cancer treatment.

 Neya Suresh-Kumar

B.S./M.S. Student
nsureshk@ucsd.edu

Neya is a BS/MS student at UCSD. She joined the Willert lab in June 2018. She is interested in the Wnt-Frizzled pathway because of its importance in development, and implication in disease. She hopes to gain a better understanding of the scientific process and learn lab techniques.

Naycari De Luna

CIRM Intern

Leia Yoon

Undergraduate Student
liyoon@ucsd.edu