John is the principal investigator of the lab.  He is also the technical director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center's Confocal Microscopy Core (link here).

Curriculum Vitae

jtompkins@mednet.ucla.edu

Amit joined the lab in 2018.  She handels day to day laboratory upkeep and ordering.  Amit is proficient at immunohistochemical staining, confocal imaging and 3D image analysis techniques. 

Dr. Cho is a cardiac electrophysiologist from Seol, Korea.  He joined the laboratory as visiting faculty from 2019-2020 and remains a valuable collaborator.

Haesung is a rising sophmore at Harvard College.  She volunteered in the laboratory as a high school student in the summer of 2019 and made significant contributions to a recent publication (link here).  Due to COVID-19, she is taking a gap year from Harvard and has joined the lab as an undergraduate research trainee.

Janaki first volunteered in the lab as a UCLA undergrad (2020) before transitioning to a Staff Research Associate (SRA) role.  She started medical school at the Stricht School of Medicine, Loyola-University Chicago in 2024.