Staff
The EPPIcenter fosters the careers of our staff, and delights in their achievements
Milya Davlieva
Milya is a Laboratory Supervisor. With two decades of life sciences expertise in academia, government, and industry, she has committed her career to enhancing laboratory operations, conducting rigorous research, and mentoring emerging scientists. After earning her a PhD from Kazan Federal University, she worked as Vice President of Research and Development at Quantapore, refining sequencing technologies and leading research projects at Rice University and the University of Houston, focusing on the rise of antibiotic resistance in bacteria and structured-based drug design against pathogens.
Faith De Amaral
Faith is a Berkeley graduate who has recently finished studying avian malaria at San Francisco State. She has a background in environmental science and conservation biology, and has found a passion for parasitology and disease ecology. She is looking forward to working with malaria in the human realm and seeing this science through a new lens
Aaron Elliot
Aaron is a recent graduate from UC Davis with a major in Genetics. He has a background in animal genomics and veterinary genetics and has found excitement and passion in the fridge of parasitology and disease genomics.
Arefin Keya
Arefin is a bioinformatician with interests in immunological, genomics and transcriptomic data analysis. She received her masters in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from UC Berkeley. Her undergrad was in Biochemistry and her formative years were spent at biotech industries developing immunotherapies for cancer and auto-immune diseases. At the EPPI center, she wants to explore large/epidemiologic-level infectious disease data and solve problems that are biologically meaningful.
Charles Le
Charles is our Lab Manager and a Staff Research Associate. He earned his BS in Physiology from SF State University. He then worked at the University of San Francisco before moving to UCSF.
Kore Lum
Kore is a Staff Research Associate. She is a recent graduate from UCLA where she earned her MPH in Epidemiology. She completed her undergrad at UC Berkeley where she studied Microbiology and Toxicology, and worked in a recombinant antibody research lab following graduation. She is looking forward to learning more about infectious diseases and transmission dynamics and being more involved in the public health setting
Teresa Moeller
Teresa is a Project Policy Analyst and Program Manager for the EPPIcenter. She joins us with a background in managing global health projects at UCSF for over 30 years.
Kathryn Murie
Kathryn is an associate specialist leading the Bioinformatics team at the EPPIcentre. After finishing her Master’s in Physics at the University of Edinburgh, Kathryn followed her interest in bioinformatics to the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where she worked for 4 years. Here, she focused on the end-to-end genomic surveillance of malaria parasites. Now, Kathryn is excited to deepen her understanding of malaria epidemiology and explore how actionable information can be extracted to make a meaningful impact on global health.
Allie O'Leary
Allie is a project manager with the EPPIcenter. She earned her MPH from George Washington University in DC. She previously worked at UCSF in pregnancy research and at Kaiser Permanente Northern California on process improvement projects.
Brian Palmer
Brian is a Bioinformatician.