Yang Xi, PhD - Postdoctoral Researcher
Yang Xi was an undergraduate at the Huazhong Agricultural University, China. She received her B.S. in Biology in 2003 and Master degree in Molecular Virology in 2006. At the same year she joined Depei Liu Lab in Tsinghua University-Peking Union Medical College (China) and received her Ph.D degree in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry in 2011. Yang joined Matthew Strout lab in Hematology Section of Yale Cancer Center in November 2012 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Guo lab May 2016-May 2017.
Xiao Hu, PhD - Postdoctoral Researcher
Xinyue Chen - Graduate Student
Xinyue was an undergraduate at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. She received her B.S. in BioSciences in 2013, and joined Yale BBS program MCGD track later that year. Xinyue joined Guo Lab in May 2014. Currently, she is working on mechanisms during leukemia malignant transformation, and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells.
Amaleah Hartman - Graduate Student
Amaleah Hartman (Leah) was an undergraduate at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. Go Bearcats! She received her B.S. in Cell Biology and her B.S in Biochemistry in 2013. Later that year, she started her PhD at Yale, eventually joining the Guo Lab in May 2014. Leah seeks to understand the role of the microenvironment in Yamanaka reprogramming of differentiated cell types to induced pluripotent stem cells, specifically focusing on the mechanotransducer Yes-associated protein (YAP).
Anna Baccei - Graduate Student
Anna studied biology at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA. She stayed for a 6-month post-baccalaureate research project before relocating to Boston, where she was a research assistant for three years in a human pluripotent stem cell lab at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Anna entered the Yale BBS program in 2014 and found her home in the Guo Lab, where she studies the link between cell cycle speed and cell fate plasticity.
Cindy Yang - Undergraduate
Aria Perlman Morales - Undergraduate
Jian Zhang, PhD - Postdoctoral Associate
Karthikasan S/O Natarajan- Undergraduate
Karthik was a junior in the Life Sciences program at Yale-NUS College in Singapore when he joined us for the summer of 2023. His summer research focused on exploring the interaction between Gtf2i/TFII-I and actin. In his free time, he’s engrossed in One Piece's captivating world, capturing moments through film photography, and browsing TikTok.