Former Lab Members:

Kaining Hu, Postdoc Associate (2021-2026 ) Ph.D, Huazhong Agricultural University > Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, CAS

Cai Qi, Postdoc Associate (2018-2021) Ph.D, Peking University Health Science Center > Research Scientist at Yale University

Research Assistants:

Jesse Kimball, Research Technologist (2024-2026) > PhD at Case Western

Rong Zhong, Ph.D, Research Professional (2020-2022) > Retired

Graduate students:

Yiru Dong, rotation (CON), UofC (2026)

Pinky Lee, DRSB, 2022-2023 > O'Malley lab

Hang Chen, GGSB, 2022-2023 > Z. Zhang lab

Max Chu, rotation (CMB), UofC (2022)

Kay Lapre, rotation (CON), UofC (2022)

Duhman Muhtaseb, rotation (HG), UofC (2021)

Ashleigh Polo, rotation (CON), UofC (2020)

Shalise Burch, rotation (DRSB), UofC (2020)

Nikita Mehta, rotation (CON), UofC (2020)

Xinran Feng, graduate student (HG), UofC (2019)

Wenhe Lin, rotation (HG), UofC (2019)

Zhuoyue Shi, rotation (GGSB), UofC (2018)

College Students:

Dellara Sheibani, University of Chicago, Quad Research Scholar (2024-2026)

Jessica Tanouye, undergraduate at UChicago, DNUFO summer program (2024)

Rachel Zhang, UChicago Class of 2024, Odyssey Scholar, Quad Research Scholar, NESTTP Scholar > MD at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Grace Hu, undergraduate at UChicago, DNUFO summer program (2023)

Doris Han, undergraduate at UChicago, DNUFO summer program (2022)

Kevin Li, undergraduate at UC Berkeley (2019)

Jasper Lee, undergraduate at UChicago (2019-2020) — MD training at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine with a full merit-based scholarship

Yuheng Liu, undergraduate from Tsinghua Univ., REU summer program (2019) — PhD candidate at Tsinghua Univ.

Irena Feng, undergraduate at UChicago (2018-2019) — MD-PhD at Boston University

Isadora Kucera, undergraduate at UChicago, DNUFO summer program (2018)

High School Students:

Luke Barth, U-High (Summer 2025) > University of Notre Dame

Maxine Hurst, U-High (Summer 2024) > Cornell University

Nate Westneat, high school student, Summer Link (2018) > The University of Chicago