Education

(2021-Present) Ph.D. Student in Genetics & Genomics
University of California Los Angeles

(2015 – 2019) B.S. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
University of California Los Angeles

Research Experience

(2020-2021) Staff Research Associate
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
UCLA SwabSeq COVID Testing Laboratory

(2018-2021) Staff Research Associate
UCLA Department of Pathology
Laboratory of Dr. Valerie Arboleda

(2017-2018) Research Assistant
UCLA Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Laboratory of Dr. Bill Lowry

Research Interests

Molecular mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disease, multiplexed assay design, population genetics

Publications

Mil J, Soto JA, Krall AS, Peloggia J, Frigui S, Fong OS, Sathe L, Matulionis N, Day F, Stiles L, Montales KP, Azizad DJ, Gonzalez CE, Fazzari E, Li MX, Nano PR, Martija AA, Perez-Ramirez CA, Nguyen CV, Wick B, Ge W, Kan RL, Andrews MG, Haeussler M, Wells MF, Christofk HR, Bhaduri A (2026). Metabolic atlas of early human cortex reveals glycolytic remodeling and pentose phosphate pathway control of cell fate transitions. Cell.

Hanson C, Derebenskiy T, Rodriguez Vega A, Kamte YS, Fox RG, Sathe L, Lambing H, Dietterich TE, Hawes D, Nehme R, Pietiläinen O, Palotie A, Allard P, Pimentel H, Wells MF (2026). Cell villages and Dirichlet modeling map human cell fitness genetics. American Journal of Human Genetics.

Bloom J, Sathe L, Munugala C, Jones EM, Gasperini M, Lubock NB, Yarza F, Thompson EM, Kovary KM, Park J, Marquette D, Kay S, Lucas M, Love T, Booeshaghi AS, Brandenburg OF, Guo L, Boocock J, Hochman M, Simpkins SW, Lin I, LaPierre N, Hong D, Zhang Y, Oland G, Choe BJ, Chandrasekeran S, Hilt EE, Butte MJ, Damoiseaux R, Kravit C, Cooper AR, Yin Y, Pachter L, Garner OB, Flint J, Eskin E, Luo C, Kosuri S, Kruglyak L, Arboleda VA (2021). Swab-Seq: A high-throughput platform for massively scaled up SARS-CoV-2 testing. Nature Biomedical Engineering.

Guss EJ, Sathe L, Dai A, Derebenskiy T, Rodriguez Vega A, Eggan K, Wells MF (2024). Protocol for neurogenin-2-mediated induction of human stem cell-derived neural progenitor cells. STAR Protocols.

Sathe L, Khan N, Williams J, Saul R, Jajieh K, Sartippour M, Young R, Xie J, Marquette D, Duncan T, Eskin E, Arboleda A (2023). 3D Printing as an Effective Quality Assurance Implementation in Massive Scale SARS-CoV-2 Testing at SwabSeq Next Generation Sequencing Laboratory. Laboratory Medicine.

 Guo L, Boocock J, Hilt EE, Chandrasekaran S, Zhang Y, Munugala C, Sathe L, Alexander N, Arboleda VA, Flint J, Eskin E, Luo C, Yang S, Garner OB, Yin Y, Bloom JS, Kruglyak L (2022). Genomic epidemiology of the Los Angeles COVID-19 outbreak and the early history of the B.1.43 strain in the USA. BMC Genomics.

Jones J, Saul R, Sathe L, Xie J, Marquette D, Arboleda VA (2021). Lean Principles to Improve Quality in High-Throughput COVID-19 Testing Using SwabSeq: A Barcoded Sequencing-Based Testing Platform. Laboratory Medicine.

Hilt EE, Boocock J, Trejo M, Le CQ, Guo L, Zhang Y, Sathe L, Arboleda VA, Yin Y, Bloom JS, Wang P, Elmore JG, Kruglyak L, Shrestha L, Bakhash SAM, Lin M, Xie H, Huang M, Roychoudhury P, Greninger A, Chandrasekaran S, Yang S, Garner OB (2021). Retrospective Detection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Symptomatic Patients Prior to Widespread Diagnostic Testing in Southern California. Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Personal Interests

I love watching football, running, and listening to podcasts, but my favorite thing to do outside of lab is hang out with my awesome cats KAT6A (Six) and Stanley!