Kuriyan Lab: Undergraduate Research

University of California, Berkeley

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

Department of Chemistry

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Current Research Projects

Former Kuriyan lab undergraduates


Undergraduate students who are interested in carrying out research in areas such as biochemistry, molecular biology, structural biology, enzymology, computational modeling of protein structure, protein-drug interactions and related topics are invited to apply in the spring for research positions in the summer, or during the summer and fall for fall and spring semester opportunities, respectively.

• Berkeley students should apply to the Kuriyan lab’s open projects advertised on the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) website.

• Undergraduate students from other institutions seeking summer or other apprenticeship opportunities should apply directly to Professor Kuriyan. Please attach a copy of your most recent transcript and your resume.

• Our research lab also participates in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP).



Current Students

Dinara Azimova, UC Berkeley, Molecular and Cell Biology, Fall 2012- (Supervisor: Dr. Nick Endres)
Yan Che, UC Berkeley, Chemistry, Spring 2011- (Supervisor: Dr. Jeff Iwig)
Anna Elleman, UC Berkeley, Chemistry, Fall 2012- (Supervisor: Dr. Margaret Stratton)
Eric Fujimura, UC Berkeley, Molecular and Cell Biology, Spring 2013- (Supervisor: Dr. Julie Zorn)
Rohan Jonnalagadda, UC Berkeley, Molecular and Cell Biology, Fall 2012- (Supervisor: Mark Herzik)
Arjun Prabhakar, UC Berkeley, Chemical Biology, Fall 2011- (Supervisor: Tiago Barros)
Christine Shieh, UC Berkeley, Molecular and Cell Biology, Fall 2011- (Supervisor: Erika Kovacs)
Jackie Tam, UC Berkeley, Chemical Biology, Fall 2011- (Supervisor: Aaron Cantor)
Alyssa Tao, UC Berkeley, Molecular and Cell Biology, Spring 2012- (Supervisor: Dr. Qingrong Yan)
Nia Teerikorpi, UC Berkeley, Molecular and Cell Biology, Spring 2012- (Supervisor: Qi Wang)

"The undergraduate multi-tasker thaws IPTG and catches some zzzz's".