Members

Birthday celebration (Oct, 2017). More lab fun at Facebook.

PI

Chaolin Zhang Associate Professor Email: cz2294 (at) columbia (dot) edu Curriculum Vitae Personal page (old!)

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
	Meghna Gopalan (06/2022-present), Undergrad Summer Research Assistant Email: mg4166 (at) barnard (dot) edu Barnard College
	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
	Melissa McKenzie (09/2019-), Postdoc Email: mmc2259 (at) cumc (dot) columbia (dot) edu M.D./Ph.D., Department of Genetics, NYU NIH K99 awardee (2021)
	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
	Lydia Wu (10/2021-), Undergrad Research Assistant Email: lw2892 (at) columbia (dot) edu Columbia College
	Yuchen Xu (02/2022-), Master Student Email: yx2709 (at) cumc (dot) columbia (dot) edu Public Health in Biostatistics, Columbia University

Alumni

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 Now: Blavatnik Fellow in Life Science Entrepreneurship, Yale University

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.