Current Lab Members
Long Gui, Ph.D.
Research scientist
Ph.D. (2016) University of Washington, Seattle
Projects: In situ cryo-ET of organelles and macromolecular complexes; cryo-ET method development
Yanhe Zhao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral researcher
Ph.D. (2016) University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Projects: In situ cryo-ET of organelles and macromolecular complexes
Jason Schrad, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral researcher
Ph.D. (2019) Michigan State University, East Lansing
Projects: In situ cryo-ET of organelles, macromolecular complexes, and viral infection
Amirrasoul Tavakoli Targhi, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral researcher
Ph.D. (2021) Baylor University, Waco
Projects: In situ cryo-ET of organelles and macromolecular complexes; cryo-ET method development
Evan Reetz
Research technician
Projects: cryo-FIB
Benjamin Harrington
Research technician
B.S. Biochemistry (2021) Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Projects: Laboratory management; animal husbandry; biochemistry
Luis Gonzalez
Research technician
B.S. Biomedical Science (2021) University of Central Florida, Orlando
Projects: Animal husbandry; biochemistry
Baloo
Companion
Projects: Sniffing; tail-wagging
Lab Alumni
| Trainee | Position | Training Period | Current contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Childress Jr. | Research Technician | 08/2021 - 01/2023 | Independent |
| Nhan Phan | Lab Manager | 08/2016 - 08/2021 | Independent |
| Justine Pinskey | Postdoc | 02/2019 - 07/2022 | Faculty and Sr. Science Writer in the Office of Health Equity at UMass Medical School, MA |
| Kai Cai | Postdoc | 09/2018 - 11/2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow in Xiaochen Bai's Lab at UTSW |
| Xiaochu Lou | Postdoc | 11/2017 - 11/2020 | Computation scientist at the Bio-High-Performance-Cluster at UTSW, Dallas, TX |
| Gang Fu | Postdoc | 02/2015 - 02/2020 | Associate Investigator at Fudan University, Shanghai, China |
| Xiaowei Zhao | Postdoc | 09/2015 – 01/2019 | CryoEM Staff Scientist at Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA |
| Zhiguo Shang | Postdoc | 05/2014 – 11/2018 | Computation scientist in BICF, Bioinformatics Department at UTSW, Dallas, TX |
| Thomas Ni | Postdoc | 06/2016 – 06/2018 | Scientist at Millipore, Madison, WI |
| Qian Wang | Senior Scientist | 06/2015 – 12/2017 | Senior Scientist in the Alluri Lab at UTSW, Dallas, TX |
| Jianfeng Lin | Instructor | 06/2008 – 10/2017 | Applications Specialist at FEI/Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| Daniel Stoddard | Graduate Student | 06/2012 – 06/2017 | EM facility director at UTSW, Dallas, TX |
| Aguang Dai | Postdoc | 04/2015 – 05/2017 | EM facility manager at UT Austin |
| Kangkang Song | Postdoc | 01/2010 – 03/2017 | Cryo-EM facility, UMass Med School |
| Cristina Berciu | Postdoc | 08/2008 – 05/2016 | EM facility manager at Maclean Hospital, Boston |
| Michael Cardone | Master’s | 11/2013 – 08/2015 | Project Manager at ASICS Digital, Boston. |
| Si Yan | Postdoc | 06/2014 – 05/2015 | Postdoc at Novartis |
| Thomas Heuser | Postdoc | 07/2007 – 01/2014 | EM facility director, Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities (VBCF), Austria |
| Xiaofeng Fu | Postdoc | 01/2010 – 12/2013 | postdoc in Zhang lab, Pittsburg |
| Cynthia Barber | Postdoc | 02/2009 – 07/2013 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals |
| Blanca Carbajal-González | Master’s | 06/2011 – 03/2013 | EM facility manager, Mount Holyoke College |
| Kyoko Okada | Postdoc | 08/2011 – 11/2012 | Scientist, UC: Davis |
| Milen Raytchev | Postdoc | 01/2008 – 12/2011 | Postdoc in Johnson Lab, Boston University School of Medicine |
| Noreen Francis | Research Technician | 06/2008 – 05/2011 | Dana Farber Institute, Boston |
| Saumya Sankaran | Research Technician | 08/2009 – 08/2010 | PhD student at Stanford University |
| Vivian Tang | Research Technician | 06/2007 – 04/2008 | University of Illinois |
| Joshua Rosenberg | Postdoc | 08/2007 – 03/2008 | Olympus light microscopes |