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Principal Investigator

Kimberly Mulligan, PhD

Kimberly Mulligan earned her BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from the University of California, San Diego. She was a graduate student in the laboratory of Roel Nusse, PhD at Stanford University where she studied mechanisms of Wnt signaling during development. As a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Benjamin Cheyette, MD, PhD at the University of California, San Francisco she studied the role of Wnt signaling in neurodevelopment and neuropsychiatric disorders. She is originally from Sacramento, and is excited to have the opportunity to serve her hometown community through teaching and research.

Current Students

Ricky Cantua Pina (MA student)

Zyla Castañon

Matthew Larson

Manh Le

Zubair Mayhar

Megan Schneider

Varshdeep Singh

Connor Spann

Zarina Zaki

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Lab Alumni

Hazem Affas (in med school)

Seham Aldafari

Adam Alfareh

Nasma Al miqbil

Vanessa Alvarez

Takhmina Amin-Rahbar

Judith Anderson

Any Ardon-Castro

Erika Ashley

Ester Avetisyan

Ryah Baroudi

Raina Brown 

Lydia Bullo

Joyce Casiquin

Alex Ceballos

Daniel Chu

Rafael Corona

Kaitlin Danziger

Alexandra Davis

Jarred Dela Cruz 

Sureena Deol

Cori Dewri

Andy Dinh

To Hien Doan

Loren Dobson

Salma Eliessy

Raina Endo

Jomari Gabriel

Kristina Ghenta

Rana Ghobashy

Karandeep Ghuman 

Mehak Gill

Belle Glaesman

Zaed Hindi

Nivene Hojeij

Semaj Hornbuckle

Alain Hu

Alica Hyllen

Kirill Iakounitchev

Ishmeal Ivory-Ford

Ramandeep Kaur

Ajay Kumar

Heather Larson

Kathryn Leodones

Alison Lewis

Ashlie Lopez

Allicia Lucich

Rachel Luke

Steven Luong

Zulfiya Mahmood

Anthony Mangino

Roy Mashburn

Carson Marsh

Taylor Moore

Lillian Murphy

Jonathan Newman

Kimberly Nguyen

Darren Nguyen

Uyen Nguyen

Angelo Niosi

Kevin Nzenkue

Jamie Overton

Aliyah Penn

Yomira Polacios

Kaitlin Rausch

Bailey Rowe

Dustin Rowland

Aurwinder Sangha

Shelley Sauter

Yen Sen

Harjinder Sidhu

Jacqueline Stein

Abuzar Tanveer

Jermel Taylor

Brendan Tinsley

Christian Torres

Auria Torshizi

Chau Tran

Mikayla Triplehorn

Angelina Tupikova

Brandon [Trafton] Stryder

Chloe Welch

Erin Widman

Jocelyn Witherspoon

Carmen Wong

Henry Vo

Yelena Yuldasheva

Joseph Yull

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Mulligan Lab Photo (Summer 2016) Top Row (Left to Right): Christian Torres, Allicia Lucich, Kimberly Nguyen, Lilly Murphy, Brandon Trafton. Botton Row (Left to Right): Zulfiya Mahmood, Zaed Hindi, Kimberly Mulligan, Loren Dobson, Kristina Ghenta, Harjinder Sidhu

CSUS NSM Research Symposium,

Fall 2016

Left to Right: Karandeep Ghuman, Kimberly Mulligan, Rafael Corona, Ashlie Lopez

Mulligan Lab Photo (Fall 2016) Top Row (Left to Right): Rafael Corona, Zaed Hindi, Karandeep Ghuman. Middle Row (Left to Right): Brandon Trafton, Kimberly Mulligan, Christian Torres, Kristina Ghenta. Botton Row (Left to Right): Allicia Lucich, Ashlie Lopez, To Hien Doan, Lillian Murphy

Students

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Mulligan Lab Photo (Summer 2018). Top Row (Left to Right): Alex Ceballos, Brendan Tinsley, Alain Hu, Aliyah Penn, Kirill Iakounitchev. Middle Row (Left to Right): Chloe Welch, Yomira Polacios, Raina Brown, Any Ardon-Castro, Angelina Tupikova, Lillian Murphy, Ryah Baroudi, Kristina Ghenta.  Bottom Row (Left to Right): Daniel Chu, KC Leodones, Kimberly Mulligan, Uyen Nguyen, Kimberly Nguyen

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California State University Program for Education and Biotechnology Research (CSUPERB) Annual Research Symposium (2019). (Left to right) Lillian Murphy, Kaitlin Danziger, Uyen Nguyen, Kimberly Mulligan, Brendan Tinsley, and Chloe Welch

Mulligan Lab Photo (Summer 2021). Top Row (Left to Right): Aliyah Penn, Kevin Nzenkue, Erin Widman, Erin Widman, Nivene Hojeij, Rana Ghobashy, Jonathan Newman. Bottom Row: Yelena Yuldasheva, Angelina Tupikova, Anthony Mangino, Kimberly Mulligan, Chloe Welch, Angelo Niosi

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Left to Right: Kristina Ghenta, Christian Torres, Kimberly Mulligan, To Hien Do, Allicia Lucich

Consider Donating to Autism Research at    Autism Speaks: 

https://www.autismspeaks.org/

    Department of Biological Sciences

    California State University, Sacramento

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