Lab Members
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David Chan
Hung Trinh
Albert Hwang
Bill Lowry
Laura Richter
Andrew White
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David Chan Graduate Student David is a second year Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology major originally from Hong Kong. He received his bachelor's degree in Biology from UC Irvine where he also studied gene expression in viral models. He has been a graduate researcher in the Lowry lab since the summer of 2007 through UCLA’s ACCESS Program. He is currently studying the factors involved in self-renewal and differentiation of neural stem cells.

Hung Trinh Undergraduate Student Hung is a third year Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology major originally from the Sacramento area. He has a member of the Lowry lab since the summer of 2007 through UCLA’s Biomedical Research Minor. He is currently studying the factors involved in growth and differentiation of epidermal progenitor cells. Outside of the lab, Hung is also interested in public health issues and is involved with the Mobile Clinic Project and UCLA’s Community Service Commission. In his free time, Hung enjoys bicycling, playing tennis, and eating a wide variety of ethnic cuisines.

Albert Hwang Undergraduate Student Albert is from Los Altos Hills, California. He is a fourth year undergraduate at UCLA, studying Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology. He has been a member of the Lowry Lab since September 2007, and is currently working on epidermal differentiation. His ultimate goal is to whittle down the 30,000 genes of the human genome into a subset of genes and gene clusters that are responsible for directing differentiation along the epidermal lineage. When he is not hitting the books or working in the hood, Albert enjoys playing the cello and watching Food Network.

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Bill Lowry Assistant Professor Bill grew up in Seattle, WA and received his B.S. from the University of Washington in 1996. He then moved to New York to do his graduate work in signal transduction and cell biology with Xin-Yun Huang at Cornell Medical College in the fall of 1997. Bill then went across the street to work with Elaine Fuchs at the Rockefeller University in 2002 where he studied the mechanisms of quiescence and activation in stem cells of the Epidermis. In the summer of 2006 Bill joined the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at UCLA to explore adult stem cells and embryonic development.

Laura Richter Staff Research Assistant Laura Richter is originally from Redding, California. She graduated in 2006 from UC Berkeley with a degree in Molecular and Cell Biology. She came to the lab in 2007 as a Staff Research Associate. She is interested in modeling ectodermal development using human embryonic stem cells. Laura regularly volunteers at Mattel Children's Hospital and will be attending medical school in the fall of 2008.

	Andrew White Postdoctoral Fellow Andrew received his Ph.D. from Washington University. He studied lung morphogenesis and pulmonary angiogenesis through mouse models during his graduate work, and has transitioned to cancer biology of the epidermis for his postdoc in the Lowry lab. Andrew enjoys the good weather of Southern California on his free time.

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