Principal Investigator
James Trimmer
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, School of MedicineDistinguished Professor
Director, UC Davis/NIH NeuroMab Facility
Email: jtrimmer@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 754-6075
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale School of Medicine (1987-1990)
PhD in Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego (1982-1987)
BA in Biology, UC San Diego (1978-1981)
Current lab members
Karl Murray
Associate Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UC Davis SOM
Associate Director, UC Davis/NIH NeuroMab Facility
Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London (1996-200)
PhD in Biological Sciences, UC Irvine (1989-1996)
BS in Chemistry and in Biological Sciences, UC Irvine (1984-1988)
Luisa Ribeiro Silva
Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Davis SOM (2022-present)
PhD in Molecular Biology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil (2016-2021)
MS in Molecular Biology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil (2014-2016)
BS in Biomedical Science, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil (2011-2014)
Leah MacNiven
Staff Research Associate, UC Davis SOM (2022-present)
B.S., Cell and Molecular Biology, California State University Sacramento (2012-2016)
Phillip Amit Singh
Staff Research Associate, UC Davis SOM (2022-present)
B.S., Bioengineering: Biotechnology, UC San Diego (2008-2012)
Kayla M. Templeton
Staff Research Associate, UC Davis SOM (2022-present)
Junior Specialist, UC Davis SOM (2020-2022)
BS in Biochemistry, Humboldt State University (2014-2019)
Keith Mitchell
Graduate Student Researcher, UC Davis SOM (2022-present)
MS in Biostatistics, UC Davis, (2019-2021)
MS in Genetics and Genomics, UC Davis (2019-2021)
BS in Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics UCLA (2013-2017)
Maddy Goethel
Junior Specialist, UC Davis SOM (2022-present)
BS in Biochemistry, University of Minnesota (2016-2021)
Preston Longley
Junior Specialist, UC Davis SOM (2023-present)
BS in Genetics and Genomics, UC Davis (2019-2023)
Sharanya Chatterjee
Undergraduate Student Assistant, UC Davis SOM (2023-present)
BS in Genetics and Genomics, UC Davis (2024 Exp.)
Jenny Dye
Undergraduate Student Assistant, UC Davis SOM (2023-present)
BS in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, BA in Japanese, UC Davis (2025 Exp.)
Carly McCurry
Undergraduate Student Assistant, UC Davis SOM (2023-present)
BS in Biotechnology, UC Davis (2024 Exp.)
Roy Simmons
Undergraduate Student Assistant, UC Davis SOM (2023-present)
BS in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, UC Davis (2024 Exp.)
Diya Suresh
Undergraduate Student Assistant, UC Davis SOM (2023-present)
BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Davis (2025 Exp.)
Wang-Meng Yang
Undergraduate Student Assistant, UC Davis SOM (2023-present)
BS in Biological Sciences, UC Davis (2024 Exp.)