Multidisciplinary research to beat cancer

The Wu Laboratory mainly focuses on using human primary nasal and oral epithelium culture to gain novel insights in virus-host interactions.

Zaki Lab's research focuses on the the study of gastrointestinal inflammation and cancer.

The Jiang lab studies fundamental mechanisms governing how diverse cell types are generated from naive progenitor cells and how cells of different types are put together to form appropriate body structures such as limbs during embryonic development. The lab also studies how damaged cells are replenished by stem cells during tissue repair and organ regeneration in adult life. We are particularly interested in understanding how cells communicate with one another to influence their growth and fate determination and how miscommunication among different cells leads to developmental abnormality and cancer progression.

We are a group of physicists, biophysicists, cell biologists, and “computationalists” interested in the spatiotemporal organization of cell surface receptors, the mechanisms underlying it, and its consequences for cell signaling. We utilize light microscopy, particularly single-molecule and super-resolution imaging, to monitor molecular behavior in its native cellular environment, and we develop computer vision and machine learning approaches to quantitate the observed behavior and gain insight beyond what the eye can see.