Alexander Ritter

Postdoctoral researcher, Bioinformaticist, B cell biologist

San Francisco, California, United States

About

I’m a postdoctoral researcher in the Zikherman Lab at UCSF where I study lymphocyte responses to antigens. In particular, I'm working to decode how B cells make distinct responses to antigens in different biophysical formats of encounter and how this impacts B cell-T cell collaboration and downstream cell fate decisions. UCSF IRACDA Fellow (2024 to present) Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Fellow (2026-2029)

Experience

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, San Francisco
    Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Zikherman Lab IRACDA Fellow Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Fellow

  • Graduate Student Researcher (Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics) at University of California, Santa Cruz
    Aug 2020 - May 2024 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Sanford Lab Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow Regents Fellow BSOE Dean's Diversity Fellow

  • Computational Biology Intern at Genentech
    Jun 2022 - Sep 2022 · 4 mos

    Discovery Oncology Bioinformatics group.

  • Bioinformatics Intern at Aspen Neuroscience
    Aug 2019 - Aug 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

    DNA and RNAseq analysis for an autologous Parkinson's Disease stem cell-based therapy.

  • R&D Intern at Thermo Fisher Scientific
    Aug 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Stem cell research to generate new products/tools for translational, industry, and academic research.