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Current Lab Members
Michael Z. Lin, MD PhD
Principal Investigator
Dr. Lin received an A.B. degree in Biochemistry summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard, an M.D. degree from UCLA, and a Ph.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. His Ph.D. work in the laboratory of Michael E. Greenberg investigated local signaling pathways in neuronal development and function. As a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of 2008 Chemistry Nobel Laureate Roger Y. Tsien at UCSD, Dr. Lin engineered fluorescent proteins with improved biophysical characteristics for in vivo imaging and developed a new approach for visualizing and controlling proteins in vivo through drug-controllable covalent modification. Email
Yang Geng, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Yang graduated from Peking University with a bachelor's degree in Biotechnology. She received a doctorate in Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University studying kinase regulation of chloride channels in dorsal root ganglion neurons.
Jun Chu, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Jun did his graduate studies on fluorescent proteins at the Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China.
Francois St-Pierre, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Francois received a B.A. and an M.A. in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge (U.K.). He earned his PhD from MIT in Computational and Systems Biology in the lab of Dr. Drew Endy (now at Stanford). In Dr. Endy’s lab, Francois studied fate selection of phage-infected bacteria at the single cell level, and built new synthetic biology tools using phage-derived functions.
Ying Yang
Postdoctoral Scholar
Ying is interested in molecular neuroscience. She's a forever PKUer and a Dukee. Go Devil go!
Younghee Oh
Postdoctoral Scholar
Younghee graduated from Seoul National University, and earned her PhD from KAIST in Korea. She is interested in the fluorescecne based in vivo imaging and biomedical applications.
Hyokeun Park
Postdoctoral Scholar
Hyokeun received a B.S. and a M.S. degree from Seould National University, and a Ph.D from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with an emphasis on single molecule fluorescence. He worked with Richard W. Tsien to work on synaptic vesicles using three-dimensional microscopy.
Margaret Butko
Postdoctoral Scholar
Margaret received her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at UC San Diego with Dr. Roger Tsien. Her thesis work focused on designing reporters to study protein dynamics at synapses by correlated light and electron microscopy and identifying synaptic proteins that contribute to synapse stability by mass spectrometry-based proteomics. She is interested in elucidating molecular mechanisms governing neuronal dynamics, especially those that can lead to neurodegenerative diseases. Email
Amy Lam
Graduate Student
Amy graduated from UC Berkeley with a BS in Bioengineering. Growing up in Sacramento, she's succeeded
in remaining in a two hours radius!
Conor Jacobs
Graduate Student
Conor earned his B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Lewis & Clark College. He is currently a
graduate student in the Biology Ph.D. program
Xin Zhou
Graduate Student
Xin earned her B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University. She is currently a graduate student in the
Bioengineering Ph.D. program.
Austin Lee-Richerson
Graduate Student
Austin earned his B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently
a graduate student in the Bioengineering Department.
Jacqueline Jialin Tao
Undergraduate Student
Jacqueline is a Stanford undergraduate student in Bioengineering.
William Chen
Undergraduate Student
William is a Stanford undergraduate student in Bioengineering.
Alumni
Hokyung Kay Chung
Research Assistant
Kay earned her B.S. in pharmacy from Seoul National University, and worked on the crystal structure of
Calcium activated Chloride Channel for her undergraduate research.
Yunwen Huo, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Dr. "H" received a Ph.D. degree in Molecular Virology from Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.
Arielle Yablonovitch
Rotation Graduate Student
Arielle earned her B.S. in Biophysics from UC San Diego, and is currently a first-year Biophysics Ph.D. student.
Fon Kanokwan
Undergraduate Student
Fon is an junior in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University.
Prae Numswangneth
Undergraduate Student
Prae is a junior majoring in Chemical Engineering from Thailand. She attended Choate Rosemary Hall for a
year before coming to Stanford. In spring 2010, she studied abroad in Kyoto, Japan
Veronica Rangel Alarcon
Research Assistant 2009-2010
Veronica graduated from Stanford in 2007 with a B.S. in Biological Sciences with Distinction and a minor in Chemistry. When not riding public transportation in Stanford, Chicago, or Shenzhen, she enjoys engineering new signal transduction proteins.
Alexandar Reinaldo Perez
Undergraduate Student Summer 2010
Alec just finished his second year at Cornell University where I study computational biology along with science of earth systems. He once participated in a semester long practical joke which involved creating a fictional student whose sole purpose was to annoy the housing authority in a university dorm.
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Future Lab Members
Winston David Si-Cheng Lin
Baby
Baby Winston was born on June 16, 2009. He has yet to receive a degree in anything, but is currently learning reading words and drawing shapes. He may be contacted by email, but may take a few years to respond. Email
Michael Lin's very outdated Picasa and Flickr web albums