Genetics

Oscar is the Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator at the Yokoyama Lab. He supports the research focusing on the genetic, structural and cognitive characterization of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia in Central and South American populations.

Taru received a bachelor of science degree in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego and completed a PhD degree in psychology in the Self-Regulation Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016. She joined the Dementia Imaging Genetics Lab in 2017 to support neuroimaging methods for understanding the underlying biology of genetic variants of frontotemporal dementia.

Claire Clelland, MD, PhD, is a clinician-scientist in the UCSF Department of Neurology at the Weill Institute for Neurosciences, where she leads the Clelland Laboratory at the UCSF Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center.

Argentina Lario Lago is the Biospecimen & Genetics Programs Manager at the Memory and Aging Center. 

Ana Tyler, JD, MA, received her undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University and her law degree with a concentration in health law and policy and master’s degree in bioethics from Case Western Reserve University. After completing a fellowship in Clinical Ethics from Sutter Health (California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco), she worked as a clinical ethicist at Beaumont Health in the metro Detroit, Michigan area.

Sarat Vatsavayai received a master of science degree in Human Genetics from Andhra University, India. He then did his doctoral work in the field of Huntington’s disease at the Open University, UK, where he was characterizing a novel mouse model and was trying to find out if DNA repeat instability could modify disease progression. In July 2013, he joined Dr.

Jennifer Yokoyama, PhD, is an associate professor at the UCSF Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center, where she leads a research program focused on the neurogenetics of aging. Her work focuses on understanding how genetic variation affects brain physiology, cognition, and behavior in older adults, as well as how these factors contribute to vulnerability or resilience to neurodegenerative diseases. Dr.

Suzee Lee, MD, is a professor of neurology and a behavioral neurologist at the Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center within the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. She serves as the director of the Dementia Imaging Genetics Lab and the Visiting Scholars Program. In these roles, she advances research on neurodegenerative diseases and mentors emerging leaders in the field.