
Our Team
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Charles Daniel Murin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Daniel is an Assistant Professor at the San Diego Biomedical Research Institute and holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor position at Scripps Research in the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology. Daniel’s background is in the use of single particle cryo-EM to study the antibody-based immune response to HIV and filoviral infection. He now leads efforts to study the molecular basis of antibody and cellular effector functions.
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Tania Cid
Research Technician I
Tania is a laboratory technician in Dr. Murin's lab. Tania graduated from the University of California, San Diego in June of 2024 with a B.S. in Neurobiology. While at UCSD, Tania worked in the lab of Dr. Dore and obtained skills in FLIM, brain slice preparation, and cell culture. Tania will be driving progress in several projects in the Murin Lab related to molecular mechanisms driving NK cell ADCC activity.
Murin Lab Alumni
Braden Christenson, Summer Undergraduate Intern 2024; Currently an undergraduate at Santa Barbara University
Patrick Ross, Ph.D. 2022-2024; Current Research Fellow in the lab or Bjorn Onfelt at Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
Ryan Lin, Lab Tech 2022-2023; Current medical student in Southern California
Kayla Xu, Summer High School Intern 2022; Currently an undergraduate at Princeton University
Scripps Research Young Scientist Award winners, 2022

Dr. Murin (left) and Dr. Eastmond (right) with the winners of the 2022 Scripps Research Young Scientist Award. Sarah Gao (center left) and Audrey Zeng (center right), also Chris Jung (not present). Photo credit Jon Torres (@jontorresphotography)

Beautiful trophies for the SRYSA made by Aaron Cover of Fab and Favored
High School Summer Research Program Symposium, Scripps Research, August 12, 2022

Kayla explaining her project to participants of the HS Summer Intern Symposium at Scripps Research

Ryan, lab tech, Dr. Murin and Kayla at Kayla's research poster

Dr. Murin and Kayla in front of her poster for the HS Summer Intern Symposium at Scripps Research

Kayla explaining her project to participants of the HS Summer Intern Symposium at Scripps Research

Summer 2022 Murin Lab HS intern Kayla Xu's last day in the lab, with mentor Dr. Murin