Principal Investigator

Benjamin F. Cravatt III, Ph.D.

Professor and Gilula Chair of Chemical Biology

The Department of Chemistry and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology

The Scripps Research Institute

E-mail: cravatt@scripps.edu

Administrative Lab Manager: Kimberly Masuda

E-mail: kimisan@scripps.edu

Tel: (858) 784-8201

Group Members

  • Sabrina Barbas, Research Assistant II

    B.S. Boston University

    E-mail: sbarbas@scripps.edu

  • Divya Bezwada, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow

    Ph.D. UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Jane Coffin Childs-Merck Fellow

    E-mail: dbezwada@scripps.edu

  • Melissa Dix, Ph.D. Senior Staff Scientist

    Ph.D. The Scripps Research Institute

    E-mail: melissad@scripps.edu

  • Wieland Goetzke, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow

    Ph.D. University of Oxford

    George E. Hewitt Foundation for Medical Research Fellow

    E-mail: fgoetzke@scripps.edu

  • Adrian Guerrero, MSTP Graduate Student (Joint with Dr. Jeffery W. Kelly)

    B.S. The University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley

    NIGMS Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA for Individual Predoctoral Fellow (F31)

    E-mail: aguerrero@scripps.edu

  • Lauren Hargis, Ph.D. Candidate (Joint with Dr. Michael Erb)

    B.S. University of California, Davis

    David C. Fairchild Endowed Fellowship Recipient

    E-mail: lhargis@scripps.edu

  • Hannah Hashimoto, Graduate Student (Joint with Dr. Jin-Quan Yu)

    M.S. University of Oregon

    Skaggs Fellow in Molecular Medicine

    E-mail: hhashimoto@scripps.edu

  • Rachel Hayward, Ph.D. Candidate

    B.S. Lafayette College

    E-mail: rhayward@scripps.edu

  • Parth Jariwala, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow (Joint with Dr. Enrique Saez)

    Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellow (F32)

    E-mail: pjariwala@scripps.edu

  • Nori Kaneshige, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate

    Ph.D. University of Michigan

    E-mail: akaneshige@scripps.edu

  • Arthur Kim, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow (Joint with Dr. John Teijaro)

    Ph.D. Washington University School of Medicine

    Open Philanthropy Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation

    E-mail: akim@scripps.edu

  • Anna Koster, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow (Joint with Dr. Ardem Patapoutian)

    Ph.D. Stanford University

    Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH

    E-mail: akoster@scripps.edu

  • Haoxin Li, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow

    Ph.D. Harvard University

    Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellow

    E-mail: haoxinli@scripps.edu

  • Garrett Lindsey, Ph.D. Candidate

    B.S. UC Santa Barbara

    E-mail: glindsey@scripps.edu

  • Zhonglin Liu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate

    Ph.D. Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS

    E-mail: zhliu@scripps.edu

  • Xuanmeng Luo, Ph.D. Candidate

    B.S. Nankai University

    Aria Chatterjee Memorial Fellowship in the Skaggs Graduate School

    E-mail: xluo@scripps.edu

  • Bruno Melillo, Ph.D. Institute Investigator

    Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

    E-mail: bmelillo@scripps.edu

  • Natasha Milosevich, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow (Joint with Dr. Michael Erb)

    Ph.D. University of Victoria

    Hewitt Foundation for Medical Research Fellow

    E-mail: nmilosevich@scripps.edu

  • Evert Njomen, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow

    Ph.D. Michigan State University

    HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow

    E-mail: enjomen@scripps.edu

  • Ben Pang, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate

    Ph.D. Scripps Research

    E-mail: zypang@scripps.edu

  • Zachary E. Potter, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow

    Ph.D. University of Washington

    AACR-AstraZeneca Breast Cancer Research Fellowship Recipient

    E-mail: zpotter@scripps.edu

  • Lingqi Qiu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate

    Ph.D. Purdue University

    E-mail: lqiu@scripps.edu

  • Christopher Reinhardt, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow

    Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellow (F32)

    E-mail: creinhardt@scripps.edu

  • Hermione (Zhouyang) Ren, Graduate student (Joint with Dr. Keary Engle)

    B.A./M.S. Northwestern University

    Endowed Fellowship in the Skaggs Graduate School of Chemical and Biological Sciences

    E-mail: zren@scripps.edu

  • Hayden Sharma, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate

    Ph.D. Harvard University

    E-mail: hsharma@scripps.edu

  • Yongfeng Tao, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate

    Ph.D. Baylor University

    E-mail: ytao@scripps.edu

  • Jason Tse, Graduate Student

    B.A. Washington University in St. Louis

    E-mail: jtse@scripps.edu

  • Timothy Ware, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow

    Ph.D. The University of Virginia

    Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellow (F32)

    E-mail: tware@scripps.edu

  • Michael Won, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate

    Ph.D. University of Michigan

    E-mail: swon@scripps.edu

  • Yijun Xiong, Ph.D. Candidate

    B.A. Grinnell College

    Skaggs Fellow in Molecular Medicine

    E-mail: yxiong@scripps.edu

  • Elva Ye, Ph.D. Candidate

    B.S. University of Texas at Austin

    Claudia Skaggs Luttrell Endowed Fellowship Recipient

    E-mail: eye@scripps.edu

  • Minjin Yoo, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate

    Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin

    E-mail: myoo@scripps.edu

  • Yuanjin Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate

    B.S. Peking University

    E-mail: yuzhang@scripps.edu