People

Principal Investigator

Nan Hao, Ph.D. (cv)

Professor

Molecular Biology, UCSD

Email: nhao@ucsd.edu

Anusorn Mudla

Postdoctoral fellow

Ph.D. UC San Diego (Biology)

Email: amudla@ucsd.edu

Phuc Nguyen

Postdoctoral fellow

Ph.D., University of Washington (Bioengineering)

Email: phn130@ucsd.edu

Paula Godoy

Postdoctoral fellow

Ph.D., Washington University St. Louis (Computational and Systems Biology)

Email: pmgodoy@ucsd.edu

Takahiro Yamada

Postdoctoral fellow

Ph.D., Keio University (Biosciences and informatics)

Email: tayamada@ucsd.edu

Jian Ran

Postdoctoral fellow

Ph.D., Zhejiang University (Ecology)

Email: jiran@ucsd.edu

Xiaohuan Zhang

Postdoctoral fellow

Ph.D., University of Groningen (Molecular Microbiology)

Email: xiz197@ucsd.edu

Mike Pokrass

Postdoctoral fellow

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (Molecular Biology and Genetics)

Email: mpokrass@ucsd.edu

Hetian Su

Ph.D. student (Biology)

B.S./M.S., UC San Diego

Email: hes031@ucsd.edu

Songlin Wu

B.S./M.S. student (Biology)

Email: sowu@ucsd.edu

Aathira Sarath Chandran

Masters student (Bioengineering)

Email: asarathchandran@ucsd.edu

Zihang Shao

Masters student (Bioengineering)

Email: zis026@ucsd.edu

Dmytro Ilnytskyy

Undergraduate lab assistant (Biology)

Email: dima.ilnitsky@gmail.com

Aileen Asavavimol

Undergraduate volunteer (Biology)

Email: aasavavi@ucsd.edu

Adrian Layer

Undergraduate volunteer (Biology)

Email: alayer@ucsd.edu

Ganesh Nachiappan

Undergraduate volunteer (Biology)

Email: gnachiappan@ucsd.edu

Peizhu Zou

Undergraduate volunteer (Biology)

Email: pezou@ucsd.edu

Xinyi Zhang

Undergraduate volunteer (Biology)

Email: xiz188@ucsd.edu

Sean De Castro

Undergraduate volunteer (Biology)

Email: sdecastro@ucsd.edu

Damian Contreras

Undergraduate volunteer (Biology)

Email: d2contreras@ucsd.edu

Alan Wang

Undergraduate volunteer (Biology)

Email: aswang@ucsd.edu

Alumni

Omar Tabbaa (postdoc, 2015 - 2016), Director of Computational Biotechnology, Battelle, OH

Yang Li (postdoc, 2014 - 2021), Bioinformatician, UCSD, CA

Yanfei Jiang (postdoc, 2016 - 2021), Senior Optical Systems Engineer, Element Biosciences, CA

Zhen Zhou (postdoc, 2018 - 2023), Principal Investigator, CAS Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, China

Yuting Liu (postdoc, 2021 - 2023), Principal Investigator, CAS Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, China

Zohreh AkhavanAghdam (Ph.D. student, 2013 - 2017), Field Application Scientist, 10x Genomics, CA

Julie Paxman (Ph.D. student, 2016 - 2021), Technical Specialist, Dentons law firm, CA

Andres Nevarez (Ph.D. student, 2018 - 2022), Postdoc fellow, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX

Beverly Naigles (Ph.D. student, 2018 - 2023), Postdoc fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic institution, MA

Joydeb Sinha (BS/MS student, 2014 - 2016), Ph.D. student, Stanford University, CA

Gavin Shih (BS/MS student, 2015 - 2018), Senior Research Associate, DNA Electronics, Inc., CA

Gary Le (BS/MS student, 2016 - 2018), Emergency Department Scribe with Vituity at El Camino Hospital, CA

Yutian Li (BS/MS student, 2016 - 2019), Ph.D. student, Caltech, CA

Adarsh Rajesh (Masters student, 2019 - 2020), Ph.D. student, SBP Medical Discovery Institute, CA

Bingxian Xu (BS/MS student, 2018 - 2020), Ph.D. student, Northwestern University, IL

Wanying Tian (BS/MS student, 2018 - 2021), Ph.D. student, UCSD, CA

Xiaoyan Ren (BS/MS student, 2018 - 2021), Ph.D. student, Kyoto University, Japan

Yijin Liu (BS/MS student, 2018 - 2021), DDS student, USC School of Dentistry, CA

Yifei Wang (BS/MS student, 2018 - 2021), Scientist, HD Biosciences, CA

Yu-Chieh Lee (BS/MS student, 2018 - 2021), DDS studnet, UCLA Dental School, CA

Mohona Datta (BS/MS student, 2021 - 2023), Research Associate, SBP Medical Discovery Institute, CA

Guoyu Zhu (Undergraduate volunteer, 2018 - 2019), Ph.D. student, Yale University, CT

Yushen Feng (Undergraduate volunteer, 2021 - 2023), MS student, UC Berkerly, CA

Lab pictures

DaoFu, Dec 2014

Robataya Oton, Dec 2016

Georges At The Cove, Dec 2017

Grandma Tofu & BBQ, Dec 2018

CUSP, July 2019

Zoom, Sept 2020

SAB.E.LEE, Dec 2021

LOFT, UCSD, Sept 2023