Current Board
David Kwon
Editor-in-Chief
David is a fourth-year Marine and Coastal Sciences major. Fascinated by the ocean’s complexity, he hopes to continue on to graduate school for an active career in research and science communication after graduating from UC Davis. Outside of The Aggie Transcript, David is often at a nearby coffee shop and enjoys drawing digital art, biking, and exploring the outdoors.
Emma Hui
Managing Editor
Emma is a third-year Biotechnology major specializing in plants. She is currently working as a laboratory assistant in Lou Lab under the plant biology department at UC Davis, investigating acyltransferases and their function in producing secondary metabolites for herbivorous defense in Solanaceous plants (I ♡ tomatoes). Emma’s research interest in biotechnology primarily focuses on synthetic biology in plant systems, and she hopes to go to graduate school to pursue a career in this field. Outside of classes, she enjoys photography, buying new plants, and making sure that her cat Sesame does not chew on her plants.
Adyasha Padhi
Treasurer
Adyasha is a fourth-year Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Sociocultural Anthropology double major with minors in Public Health & Computer Science. She is an undergraduate researcher in the Gomes Lab, studying the side effects of commonly used drugs such as ibuprofen on the heart and the signaling pathways involved in proteostasis (protein homeostasis) in cardiac and skeletal muscle diseases. She hopes to attend graduate school to pursue a career in translational research. In her free time, she enjoys doing puzzles, playing video games, reading, and baking.
Siri Manthapuri
Director of Outreach
Siri is a second-year Biochemistry & Molecular Biology major.
Elijah Valerjev
Senior Editor
Elijah is a fifth-year Microbiology major and double Education and Professional Writing minor. He is especially interested in how social concepts connect to science, while also finding food and drug topics to be most engaging. In addition to his time as Senior Editor, Elijah works as a Writing Consultant with the University Writing Center. In his free-time, he enjoys baking, boxing, and buying books (and apparently the letter "b").
Rokhshid Rafiei
Junior Editor
Rokhshid is a fourth-year Genetics and Genomics major.
Fenna Candy
Junior Editor
Fenna is a fourth-year Genetics and Genomics major with minors in Professional Writing, Neuroscience, and Linguistics. As an undergraduate researcher in the Kaplan Lab, she studies how proteotoxic stress in neurodegenerative disease alters nuclear homeostasis. In the future, she plans to attend graduate school to build a career as a researcher and professor. In her spare time, Fenna enjoys knitting, cooking, ceramics, collage poetry, estate sales, cool maps, and Wikipedia deep-dives.
Aninditha Keshavan
Junior Editor
Aninditha is a third-year Global Disease Biology major.
Andrew Jones
Photographer
Andy is a fourth-year Plant Biology Major. In his free time he plays basketball, ping pong, and tennis, identifies plants, and eats popsicles.
Dr. Silvia Carrasco Garcia
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Silvia Carrasco Garcia is an Assistant Professor of Teaching of Molecular and Cellular Biology at UC Davis.
Dr. Sean Burgess
Founding Faculty Advisor
Sean Burgess is a professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at UC Davis. She has been teaching MCB 164 (Advanced Genetics) and MCB 121 (Advanced Molecular Biology) for over 14 years. When not in the classroom you will find Dr. Burgess in her lab where she oversees research on chromosome dynamics and organization in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and zebrafish Danio rerio. When not in lab she is typically enjoying time with her family or drinking coffee. You can visit her lab page for more information.