Associate Professor
Ming Tan has been at the University of California, Irvine
since 1998, and prior to that made stops in Gainesville FL, Baltimore,
Cleveland and San Francisco. He is interested in infectious diseases
from both a research angle, where he has been studying how the
pathogenic bacterium, Chlamydia, causes disease, and from a clinical
perspective. When he's not injuring himself on a lab ski trip (pelvic
fracture) he likes kayaking in nearby Newport Harbor and biking around
the Back Bay.
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Chris joined the Tan Lab as a Postdoc in the summer 2008 to do
some exciting research and to take a break from the rigors of the
Northern Californian lifestyle.
His current project involves studying the role of the alternative sigma
factor RpoN and associated regulators in the regulation of the
infectious cycle of Chlamydia.
Graduate Student
Johnny is currently working on tryptophan regulation in
chlamydia. In his spare time, he enjoys clubbing and going to concerts.
Graduate Student
Liz is working on identifying the mechanisms of developmental
transcription regulation in Chlamydia. In her spare time, Liz likes to
camp, hike, bike, and brew beer.
Graduate Student
Allan is a fifth year graduate student who spends most of his
time sleeping through meetings, complaining about not sleeping enough,
or walking around like a zombie from not getting enough sleep. When he
is (occasionally) spotted in the lab, he works on the regulation of
heat shock genes in Chlamydia trachomatis (while rocking out to his
iPOD and being completely oblivious of his surroundings). That, or he
is sleeping at his desk. (Substitute sleep with work and it will all
make more sense.)
Graduate Student
Eric is a fourth year graduate student working on how supercoiling regulates transcription in Chlamydia. When he is not in lab, Eric can be found
hiking or biking around Orange County.
Graduate Student
Kirsten is a third year graduate student. She is currently studying how and why Chlamydia cause a dysregulation of the normal centrosome duplication pathyway in host cells so that multiple procentrioles are formed per template during an infection.
