Max Chang	Research Associate	mchang@scripps.edu
Divita Garg	Research Associate	dgarg@scripps.edu
Devin Knece	Lab Helper	dknece@scripps.edu
Pat McClintock	Administrative Assistant	pmcclin@scripps.edu
Deborah Noack	Research Assistant	dnoack@scripps.edu
Mike Scott	Research Assistant	mscott@scripps.edu
Bruce Torbett	Associate Professor	betorbet@scripps.edu
Cathy Wang	Graduate Student	xueqian@scripps.edu

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Members Information:
Bruce E. Torbett , Ph.D. Position: Associate Professor Education: MSPH., Ph.D., Dept. of Cellular, Molecular, & Developmental Biology, UCLA Specialties: Biochemistry; flow cytometry; molecular biology; protein chemistry; virology. email: betorbet@scripps.edu Field(s): Immunology; lentiviral gene delivery; myeloid development/transcription; biochemical and structural virology. Project(s):Evolution of drug resistance in HIV, HIV gag structure; the role of PU.1 in myeloid development; regulation of monocyte/macrophage function.
Max Chang, Ph.D. Position: Senior Research Associate Education: Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of California, San Diego Specialties: Computer programming; enzymology; and assay development. email: mchang@scripps.edu Field(s): Evolution of Drug Resistance in HIV. Project(s): Allosteric inhibition of HIV protease; permissive mutations in protease; co-evolution of HIV protease and Gag; biochemical and viral fitness mechanisms.
Divita Garg, Ph.D. Position: Research Associate Education: Ph.D. in Drug Design and Structural Biology from Technical University Munich and Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Studies, Germany Specialties: Utilizing experimental biology and biophysical techniques together with computational molecular modeling for drug discovery. email: dgarg@scripps.edu Fields: Project(s):
Deborah Noack, B.A. Position: Research Assistant III Education: B.A. Chemistry, University of California, San Diego. Specialties: Molecular biology; protein chemistry; flow cytometry; cell biology; and lentiviral vector development. email: dnoack@scripps.edu Fields: Virology and gene regulation. Project(s): Development and evaluation of novel HIV-1 vectors for controlling gene expression.
Mike Scott, M.S. Position: Research Assistant IV Education: M.S., Analytical Chemistry, University of California, Riverside Specialties: Proteomic Specialist; protein chemistry. email: mscott@scripps.edu Field(s): Proteomics, Targeted Metabolomics, Biomolecular Interaction Analysis using SPR (Biacore), Flow Cytometry Project(s): HIV virion proteomics; Tagged tetherin proteomics; Membrane Proteomics of the mouse neurovascular unit as pertaining to the Blood Brain Barrier.
Cathy (Xueqian) Wang, B.S. Position: Graduate Student Education: B.S., Biochemistry, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Specialties: Biochemistry; flow cytometry; molecular biology; virology. email: xueqian@scripps.edu Field(s): Lentiviral vector restriction of human hematopoietic stem cells. Project(s): Understanding viral resistance mechanims in human hematopoietic stem cells.
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