Postdoctoral Fellows and Instructors
Sarah Bahraoui, Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Hometown: Annecy, France
- Undergrad: Grenoble Alpes University (Life Sciences)
- Graduate school: M.S. at University of Montpellier (Cancer Biology), Ph.D. at University of Montpellier (Stem Cell Biology and Health)
- Mentor: Laura Banaszynski, Ph.D.
Govindkumar Balagannavar, Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Mentor: Mala Mahendroo, Ph.D.
Victor Billon, Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Hometown: Verneuil sur Avre, Normandy, France
- Undergrad: Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (Molecular and Cellular Biology)
- Graduate school: Université Côte d'Azur (Health and Life Sciences)
- Mentors: Ben Sabari, Ph.D.
- Project: Intrinsically disordered regions and gene regulation
Qiqi Cao, Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Hometown: Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
- Undergrad: Harbin Medical University (Health Supervision)
- Graduate school: Nanjing Medical University (Reproductive Medicine)
- Mentors: Haiqi Chen, Ph.D. and Ed Grow, Ph.D.
- Project: Spatial transcriptome atlas for ovarian follicles
Yangyang Dai, M.D., Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Hometown: China
- Undergrad: Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (Medicine)
- Graduate school: Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (Reproductive Sciences)
- Mentor: W. Lee Kraus, Ph.D. and Dan Huang, M.D., Ph.D.
- Project: Metabolism and reproductive biology
Morgan Dasovich, Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Hometown: Chicago, IL
- Undergrad: The College of Wooster (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
- Graduate school: Johns Hopkins University (Chemistry-Biology Interface)
- Mentor: W. Lee Kraus, Ph.D.
- Project: Understanding how PARPs and ADP-ribosylation regulate signaling pathways and cellular outcomes.
Bethania Davila Ruiz, Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Mentor: Mala Mahendroo, Ph.D.
Yonghyeon Kim, Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Mentor: W. Lee Kraus, Ph.D.
Xiang Li, Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Hometown: Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
- Undergrad: Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong China. (Biotechnology)
- Graduate school: Ph.D.: SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY (Biochemistry)
MS: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. (Bioengineering) - Mentor: Ben Sabari, Ph.D.
- Project: Role of condensate formation in cancer progression regulation
Chenqian Liu, M.D.
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Mentor: W. Lee Kraus, Ph.D.
- Project: ADP-ribosylation sites on a genome-wide scale in cancer cells
Shanmugapriyaa Madhukaran, Ph.D.
- Assistant Instructor
- Mentor: Mala Mahendroo, Ph.D.
Shenlu Qin, Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Mentor: Haiqi Chen, Ph.D.
- Graduate school: Fudan University and Westlake University, China
- Project: Functions of novel proteins in the reproductive systems
Chikara Takeuchi, M.D., Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Hometown: Yokohama, Japan
- Undergrad: Keio University, Japan (Medicine)
- Graduate school: Keio University, Japan (Medical Science)
- Mentor: Gary Hon, Ph.D.
- Project: Temporal enhancer architectures during development
- Fellowship: American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship
Shubham Vashishtha, Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Hometown: Uttarakhand, India
- Undergrad: Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, India (Biotechnology)
- Graduate school: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India (Biological Sciences)
- Mentor: Ben Sabari, Ph.D.
- Project: Understanding the nature and role of biomolecular condensates in diseases conditions
Weizhi Xu, Ph.D.
- Assistant Instructor
- Hometown: Guangdong, China
- Undergrad: Peking University (Basic Medical Sciences)
- Graduate school: Peking University (Anatomy, Histology and Embryology)
- Mentors: Ashley Solmonson, Ph.D.
- Project: Intersection of epigenomics and metabolism
Xin Zhang, Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Hometown: Taizhou, Jiangsu province, China
- Undergrad: Nanjing Medical University (Biotechnology)
- Graduate school: Nanjing Medical University (Reproductive Medicine)
- Mentor: Haiqi Chen, Ph.D.
- Project: Spatial CRISPR Genomics for Spermatogenesis