Members

2022 Lab summer BBQ (10 year lab anniversary & celebration of Melissa's new faculty position)

PI

Chaolin Zhang Associate Professor Email: cz2294 (at) columbia (dot) edu Curriculum Vitae Personal page (old!) Chaolin is currently an Associate Professor with joint appointment in Department of Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Motor Neuron Center at Columbia University. Before he joined Columbia, he performed PhD studies at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in computational biology and then Postdoc work at Rockefeller University. As a converted biologist originally trained in engineering, he has a deep interest in understanding gene regulatory logics. From the beginning of his academic endeavor, he decided to tackle the RNA code, i.e., how specific protein-RNA interactions determine the gene output in health and disease conditions, which remains the focus of the lab.

Current Lab Members

	Georgia Dermentzaki (09/2021-present), Postdoc Email: gn2267 (at) cumc (dot) columbia (dot) edu Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Athens; Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
	Jessica Estrada (11/2022-present), Technician Email: je2673 (at) cumc (dot) columbia (dot) edu BA, Chemistry, Stony Brook University
	Brian Joseph (11/2021-present), Postdoc (joint with Hynek Witchterle lab) Email: bj2468 (at) cumc (dot) columbia (dot) edu Ph.D., Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
	Suvrajit Maji (07/2022-present), Postdoc Email:sm4073 (at) cumc (dot) columbia (dot) edu Ph.D.,Carnegie Mellon University
	Daniel Moakley (06/2018-), Graduate Student Email: dfm2129 (at) cumc (dot) columbia (dot) edu Ph.D. student, Integrative Program, Columbia University
	Paola Rinchetti (05/2022-), Postdoc (joint with Francesco Lotti lab) Email: pr2485 (at) cumc (dot) columbia (dot) edu Ph.D., University of Milan
	Yocelyn Recinos (06/2018-), Graduate Student Email: yr2330 (at) cumc (dot) columbia (dot) edu Ph.D. student, Integrative Program, Columbia University NSF GRFP awardee (2019)
	Xiaojian Wang (06/2016-), Lab manager Email: xw2006 (at) columbia (dot) edu MS, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental biology, the Ohio State University BM, Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing Medical University, Beijing, China
	Yuchen Xu (02/2022-), Master Student Email: yx2709 (at) cumc (dot) columbia (dot) edu Public Health in Biostatistics, Columbia University
	Tim Yeh (09/2022-), Postdoc Email: yy2722 (at) cumc (dot) columbia (dot) edu PhD, Department of Biology, Zukerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University

Alumni

Melissa Campbell (09/2019-11/2022), Postdoc Email: mmc2259 (at) cumc (dot) columbia (dot) edu M.D./Ph.D., Department of Genetics, NYU NIH K99 awardee (2021) Now: Assistant Professor, UCSD

Meghna Gopalan (06/2022-08/2022), Undergrad Summer Research Assistant Email: mg4166 (at) barnard (dot) edu Barnard College

Lydia Wu (10/2021-06/2022), Undergrad Research Assistant Email: lw2892 (at) columbia (dot) edu Columbia College

Huijuan Feng (8/2016-12/2021), Postdoc Email: hf2304 (at) columbia (dot) edu Ph.D., MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Division, TNLIST & Department of Automation, Tsinghua University Visiting Ph.D. student (1/2015-1/2016) Now: Associate Professor, Fudan University Personal page

Suying Bao (06/2017-06/2021), Postdoc Email: sb4045 (at) columbia (dot) edu Ph.D., School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong Now: Bioinformatics Manager, Regeneron

Dmytro Ustianenko (01/2015-05/2021), Postdoc Email: du2145 (at) columbia (dot) edu Ph.D., Biomolecular Chemistry, Masaryk University, Central European Institute of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic When existing: Blavatnik Fellow in Life Science Entrepreneurship, Yale University Now: Associate, Flagship Pioneering

Lily Wang (07/2020-09/2020), Undergraduate Research Assistant Undergraduate student, Mathematics/Statistics, Columbia University Email: hw2744 (at) columbia (dot) edu Amgen Summer Research Program Award (2020)

Lekha Yesantharao (09/2017-12/2019), Undergraduate Research Assistant Undergraduate student, Department of Engineering, Columbia University Email: lvy2002 (at) columbia (dot) edu Simons Foundation Undergraduate Summer Research Program Award (2018) Now: Medical School, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Justin Wong (06/2017-05/2019), Undergraduate Research Assistant Undergraduate student, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University Email: justin (dot) wong (at) columbia (dot) edu Simons Foundation Undergraduate Summer Research Program Award (2017) Now: Graduate Student, UC Berkeley

Brittany Phillips (05/2018-05/2019), Postdoc Email: bp2563 (at) cumc (dot) columbia (dot) edu Ph.D., Genetics and Molecular Biology, Emory University Now: Medical Writer, Chrysalis Medical Communications

Yingzhi Qian (06/2016-06/2018), Computational Biologist Email: yq2139 (at) columbia (dot) edu M.A., Statistics, Columbia University B.Sc., Applied Mathematics, Fudan University Now: Research Scientist, NYU Lagone Health

Sebastien Weyn (08/2013-02/2018), Graduate Student Ph.D. student, Integrative Program, Columbia University Email: smw2185 (at) columbia (dot) edu Titus M Coan Award for Excellence in Research (2018) Now: Bioinformatics Scientist, Stoke Therapeutics.

Helene Lovett (06/2017-08/2017), Undergraduate Research Assistant Undergraduate student, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard University Email: helenelovett (at) college (dot) Harvard (dot) edu SURF/Amgen Fellowship (2017)

Martin Jacko (08/2013-07/2017), Graduate Student Ph.D. student (joint with Wichterle lab), Department of Pathobiology & Molecular Medicine, Columbia University Email: mj2577 (at) columbia (dot) edu When exiting: Postdoc, Alice Ting Lab, Stanford University Now: Associate Director, Business Development & Operations at Bridgebio

Ankeeta Shah (08/2015-05/2017), Volunteer Undergraduate student, Barnard College Email: abs2218 (at) barnard (dot) edu SURF/Amgen Fellowship (2016) Goldwater Scholarship (2016) Now: Graduate Student, University of Chicago

Jonah Lee (05/2015-01/2017), Volunteer Undergraduate student, Columbia College Email: jl3910 (at) columbia (dot) edu

Andrew Arditi (Volunteer, 09/2016-12/2016) Columbia College Email: ava2123 (at) columbia (dot) edu

Jingxian You (Volunteer, 07/2016-09/2016) Fudan University Email: ykevingrox (at) gmail (dot) com

Jiaye Li (05/2016-08/2016) MA in Biotechnology, Columbia University Then: Volunteer

Kevin Huynh (10/2015-7/2016) BS, Biochemistry/Cell Biology, UCSD MS, Biology, UCSD Then: Technician Now: MD program, UCSF

Joy Pai ( 09/2013-05/2016) Undergraduate student, Departments of Biological Sciences and Computer Science, Columbia University Harvard/MIT HST Summer Institute Fellowship (2015) SURF/Amgen Fellowship (2014) Then: Undergraduate Research Assistant When existing: Bioinformatics specialist, Michel Russenzweig lab, Rockefeller University Now: Graduate Student, Stanford University

Kernyu Park (07/2015-10/2015) Departments of Biological Sciences and Computer Science, Columbia University Then: Undergraduate Research Assistant

Qinghong Yan (02/2013-02/2015) Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Stony Brook University Then: Postdoc When existing: Scientist, Amgen Now: Head of Biology, FUSION BioVenture

Yong Zhang (04/2013-11/2014) Ph.D., Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Then: Postdoc Now: Postdoc, Xuemei Chen lab, UC Riverside

Jie Wu (01/2013-08/2013) Then: Visiting Ph.D. student, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory / Applied Maths and Statistics, Stony Brook University When existing: Bioinformatics Scientist, BioMicro Center, MIT Now: Associate Director, Bioinformatics at Accent Therapeutics, Inc.