Dr. Allegra Aron,
Principal Investigator
Allegra Aron grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA and earned her B.S. from Brown University, working with Professor Eunsuk Kim. In 2012, she started her graduate studies with Professor Christopher Chang at the University of California, Berkeley. As a recipient of NSF GRFP, Allegra developed fluorescent and bioluminescent sensors for iron. Allegra moved to the University of California, San Diego in 2018 to join the laboratory of Pieter Dorrestein, where she developed mass spectrometry methods for finding small molecule metal-binding compounds from complex samples. Outside of the lab, Allegra loves rock climbing, skiing, road biking, hiking, and has recently started surfing.
Undergraduate Students
David Hattan, Undergraduate Researcher
David is a rising fourth year undergraduate student earning B.S in Chemistry at the University of Denver. With a departmental grant David will spend the summer of 2024 researching a potential component of Alzheimer's pathology with non-targeted mass spectrometry. Originally from Maine, David enjoys skiing, billiards, and hiking.
James Elofson, Undergraduate Researcher
James was born and raised in Denver, CO. He completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and is on tract to get his Master's degree from the University of Denver in Computer Science in 2024. James has an interest in medicine and bioinformatics so was eager to give computational mass spectrometry a try.