Lab History

James Trimmer received his PhD from UC San Diego and was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale School of Medicine before becoming a faculty member at Stony Brook University from 1990-2003. The Trimmer Lab moved to UC Davis in 2003, where the UC Davis/NIH NeuroMab Facility was founded in 2005. The Trimmer lab ceased operations in at the end of June 2024 upon Dr. Trimmer’s transition to Emeritus status.  During its tenure, lab members used a combination of biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, neuroscience, and physiology techniques to study activity-dependent regulation and subcellular localization of ion channel signaling complexes in both physiological and pathological states.  The UC Davis/NIH NeuroMab Facility continues its operations to develop highly validated renewable and recombinant antibodies for neuroscience research and make them and their sequences widely available to the research community.

Former graduate students and postdocs

Nutan Sharma, MD-PhD

(PhD student 1992-1993, PhD 1993)

Associate Professor
Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital

Susan Keilbaugh, PhD

(Postdoc 1991-1993)

Retired

Mirjana Maletic-Savatic, MD-PhD

(Postdoc 1992-1995)

Professor and Endowed Scholar
Baylor College of Medicine

Kensuke Nakahira, PhD

(Postdoc 1992-1996)

Associate Professor
Saitama Medical University Faculty of Medicine

Hideyuki Murakoshi, MD-PhD

(Postdoc 1993-1996)

Professor
Department of Internal Medicine, JR Sendai Hospital, Japan

Gongyi Shi, PhD

(PhD student 1991-1996, PhD 1996)

Director of Scientific Affairs
Bruker Daltronics

Robert Scannevin, PhD

(PhD student 1993-1997, PhD 1997)

Chief Scientific Officer
Verge Genomics

Erica Geimonen, PhD

(Postdoc 1996-1998)

Vice President of Business Development
Amring Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Seung T. Lim, PhD

(PhD student 1996-2000, PhD 2000)

Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center

Louis Manganas, MD-PhD

(PhD student 1996-2001, PhD 2001)

Associate Professor
Chief, Child Neurology
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Neurology, Stony Brook University Medical Center

Riichi Shibata, PhD

(Postdoc 1998-2001)

Physician
Japan

Matthew N. Rasband, PhD

(Postdoc 1999-2002)

Professor and Vivian Smith Endowed Chair in Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine

Hiroaki Misonou, PhD

(Postdoc 2001-2006)

Professor
Graduate School of Brain Science, Doshisha University

Milena Menegola, MD

(Postdoc 2004-2006)

Senior Physician
Universitatsspital Basel, Switzerland

Eliana Clark, PhD

(Postdoc 2005-2007)

Senior Director, Asset Team Leader
Early Oncology Development
Pfizer

Jiusheng Yan, PhD

(Postdoc 2005-2007)

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Jae-Won Yang, PhD

(Postdoc 2006-2007)

Assistant Professor (Universitaetsassistent)
Institute of Pharmacology, Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna

Durga Mohapatra, PhD

(Postdoc 2003-2008)

Program Director in Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Kang-Sik Park, PhD

(Postdoc 2003-2008)

Professor of Physiology
Kyung Hee University College of Medicine

Helene Vacher, PhD

(Postdoc 2003-2008)

CNRS Tenured Researcher
Institut Jean Roche, Univ Méditerranée

Masayo Morishita, PhD

(Postdoc 2007-2008)

Research Scientist
Kyungpook National University

Edward L. Seikel, PhD

(PhD student 2004-2008, PhD 2008)

Winemaker
Grand Island Vineyards

Frank Berendt, PhD

(Postdoc 2007-2009)

Chapter Lead RNA Molecules – European Patent Attorney
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG

Jon Sack, PhD

(Postdoc 2008-2009)

Associate Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology
UC Davis School of Medicine

Moon-young Kim, PhD

(Postdoc 2008-2010)

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Eulji University School of Medicine

María Luci Mónica López Velázquez, PhD

(Postdoc 2009-2010)

Medical/Scientific Writer
Mexico City

Oscar Cerda, PhD

(Postdoc 2009-2012)

Associate Professor, Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile

Je-Hyun Baek, PhD

(Postdoc 2010-2012)

Director, R&D Center for Clinical Mass Spectrometry
Seegene Medical Foundation

Eric Morency, PhD

(Postdoc 2011-2012)

Senior Scientist
Eurobiodev

Danielle Mandikian, PhD

(PhD student 2009-2013, PhD 2013)

Senior Scientist
Genentech

Nicolas Andrews, PhD

(Postdoc 2012-2013)

Manager, Correlative Sciences Program
Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium

Takahiro Shimizu, PhD

(Postdoc 2012-2014)

Research Associate
University College London

Hannah Bishop, PhD

(PhD student 2011-2015, PhD 2015)

Senior Scientific Support Specialist
Abcam

Melanie M. Cobb, PhD

(PhD student 2013-2015, PhD 2015)

Senior Scientist
Verge Genomics

Stephanie Palacio, PhD

(Postdoc 2015-2018)

Academic Coordinator, IMSD Program
UC Davis

 

Michael Kirmiz, PhD

(PhD student 2014-2018, PhD 2018)

Senior Scientist
Bio-Rad Laboratories

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