Staff

Amber Atkinson

Administrative Officer

Sabrina Chu

Finance Manager

Lu Yang, PhD

Computational Biologist
Medicine

Ju Eun Jeon, PhD

Research Specialist, Quantitative Metabolite Analysis Center
Medicine

Jacob Brockert

Research Associate, Quantitative Metabolite Analysis Center

Slavena Vylkova, PhD

Scientific Communications Manager
Medicine

Dr. Slavena Vylkova manages the scientific communications for the Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine (BCMM). Her responsibilities include assisting with pre-award research funding operations, scientific writing/editing and project development.

Darren Dumlao, PhD

Assistant Director, Quantitative Metabolite Analysis Center

Abdur Rahim Khan, PhD

Manager, Microbial Genomics and Culturing

Jessie Turnbaugh, PhD

Director, Gnotobiotics
Hooper Foundation

Kristin Dolan, PhD

Assistant Director, Operations and Strategy
Medicine

Dr. Kristin Dolan is the Assistant Director for the Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine (BCMM), where she oversees operations, strategy, and all program development for a community of over 130 researchers and annual budget of $5M. Previously, Kristin served as a Program Manager in the UCSF Research Development Office where she supported campus wide strategic initiatives and provided proposal strategy input, project management, technical writing/consulting, and template language for large, multi-investigator grant proposals.