Current Members

Minglei Zhao

Principle Investigator



Yuan Xie

Research Professional



Jane Lodwick

Postdoctoral Researcher



Bixia Zhang

Postdoctoral Researcher



Stephen Chung

Lab Technician



Erick Torres Guasp

Graduate Student



Madeline Herwig

Graduate Student



Simone Ritchey

Graduate Student



Sophie Ye

Undergraduate Student



Evelina Tronina

Rotation Student




Lab Alumni

Name Year Position Recent Update
Ayanna McCarthy Summer 2024 ASM STEM Lab Internship High School Student
Patryk Kalinowski 2022-2024 BioLabs Program Graduate Student @ Boston University
Jeffrey Han 2022-2024 Undergraduate Researcher Postbac @ NIH
Malena Heineman 2023 Undergraduate Researcher Undergraduate Student @ UChicago
Bowei Yang, PhD 2022-2023 Postdoctoral Researcher Postdoctoral Researcher
Alvin Zhang 2021-2023 Undergraduate Researcher Graduate Student @ Princeton
Chang Liu 2017-2022 Graduate Student Postdoctoral Researcher @ UT Austin
Ally Shiqi Cao 2021-2022 Undergraduate Researcher Undergraduate @ UChicago
Kasandra Medrano Summer 2022 High School Researcher Elmwood Park High School
Vivian Lu 2021-2022 Undergraduate Researcher Research Associate @ Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
David Cho 2020-2021 Undergraduate Researcher MD Student
Man Pan, PhD 2017-2021 Postdoctoral Researcher Associate Professor @ Institute of Translational Medicine, SJTU
Yuanyuan Yu, PhD 2017-2021 Postdoctoral Researcher Professor @ Shanghai University
Sihao Huang 2019 Rotation Student Graduate Student @ UChicago
Szymon Kordon 2019 Rotation Student Graduate Student @ UChicago
Josephine Tang 2019 Rotation Student Graduate Student @ UChicago
Adam Wylder 2018 Rotation Student Graduate Student @ UChicago
Patricia Zulueta 2018-2019 Undergraduate Researcher Medical Student @ Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Karolina Roganowicz 2018-2019 BioLabs Program Graduate Student @ ETH
David Pan Summer 2018 & 2019 High School & Undergraduate Researcher College Student @ UChicago
Kyle Oleksiuk Summer 2018 Undergraduate Researcher Development Associate @ RestoringVision
Dazhi Li Summer 2018 International REU Program, HKUST Graduate Student @ Yale
Caitlin Wong Summer 2017 Undergraduate Researcher Graduate Student @ UChicago
Abdul Atassi Summer 2017 High School Researcher UChicago Laboratory Schools