Lab members
Michael Z. Lin, MD PhD
Principal Investigator
Michael Z. Lin received an A.B. summa cum laude in Biochemistry from Harvard, an M.D. from UCLA, and a Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School. After training in biochemistry and neurobiology as a Ph.D. student with Michael Greenberg at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Lin performed postdoctoral research in fluorescent protein engineering with Chemistry Nobel Laureate Roger Y. Tsien at UCSD. Dr. Lin is a recipient of a Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists, a Rita Allen Scholar Award, a Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, and an NIH Pioneer Award. In his spare time, he tries to convince others of the merits of base 8.
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Suguru Ueno
Visiting Scholar
Suguru received his Ph.D. from Faculty of Pharmaceutical sciences in University of Tokyo. For the past eleven years, he has developed antibody-drug conjugate and cell therapy in U3 Pharma in Germany and Daiichi Sankyo in Japan. In the Lin Lab, Suguru has interest in engineering proteins for rewire oncogenic signaling and bio-device interface.
Chenzhou Hao
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Chenzhou Hao received his Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University in 2017, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Peking University. Dr. Hao was an assistant research fellow at the Shenzhen Bay Laboratory from 2021-2023. Dr. Hao joined the Lin Lab in 2023 as a basic life research scientist and is collaborating with team members to discover new generation of antiviral drugs.
Daesun Song
Postdoctoral Scholar
Daesun received Ph.D. in Chemistry from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea. As a graduate student, Daesun developed protein probes for studying protein oligomerization and Liquid-liquid phase separation in cells. Now, Daesun is engineering photoswitchable fluorescent protein for regulating the activity of target proteins.
Mikkel Madsen
Postdoctoral Scholar
Mikkel is a biochemist by training and received his PhD from the Technical University of Denmark on complex coacervation between proteins and carbohydrates. From 2021-2023 he did a postdoc in enzyme technology with a focus on the molecular determinants in enzymes that degrade alginate. Mikkel has an interest in substrate recognition and is now working on discovery and design of broad spectrum antiviral peptidomimetics.
Dongyun Jiang
Postdoctoral Scholar
Dongyun graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a PhD degree in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences. She is currently a postdoc in the department of neurobiology. She is interested in understanding the molecular principles underlying cognition and how do they go awry in neuropsychiatric disorders.
Sungmoo Lee
Postdoctoral Scholar
Sungmoo received his Ph.D. from Seoul National University / Department of Transdisciplinary Studies. Before joining the Lin lab, Sungmoo developed genetically encoded fluorescent biosensors from Dr. Bradley Baker's lab at KIST. In the Lin lab, Sungmoo will continue to develop and improve voltage indicators as well as apply the new sensors for questions in neuroscience studies.
Alex Yukun Hao
Graduate Student
Yukun graduated from Tsinghua University and used to work on applied math and physics. Currently, he is a graduate student in the Department of Bioengineering. He is devoted to the development of better genetically encoded voltage indicators and he would like to apply the indicators to study the multisensory integration of fruit flies. He is a believer in holism and emergentism.
Xinzhi Zou
Graduate Student
Xinzhi earned her B.A. in Life Science from Tsinghua University. She is currently a graduate student in the Bioengineering Ph.D. program in Stanford.
Julisia Chau
Graduate Student
Julisia graduated from UCSD with a degree in Chemistry and is currently a graduate student in the department of Chemistry. She is interested in engineering proteins to rewire oncogenic signaling.
Yan Wu
Graduate Student
Yan received her B.S. from Tsinghua University. She is currently a graduate student in Stanford Bioengineering PhD program. Yan is now working on engineering Kinase-Modulated Bioluminescent Indicators (KiMBIs) to establish a generalizable approach to rapidly and non-invasively visualize the efficacy of kinase inhibitors in vivo.
Pengli Wang
Graduate Student
Pengli got BEng in Biochemical Engineering from UCL and MSc in Biotechnology from ETH Zurich. He is currently a graduate student in the Chemical Engineering Ph.D. program at Stanford. Pengli is now working on red-shifting luciferase as biosensor to detect neurotransmitters in a non-invasive way.
Lan Xiang Liu
Research Assistant
Lan graduated from Beijing Agricultural University. She is a life science research assistant in the laboratory. Outside of the lab, she loves hikng and cooking!
Lab Alumni
Yufeng Zhao, postdoctoral scholar → Research officer at National Research Council Canada
Yichi Su, postdoctoral scholar → assistant professor at Fudan University (Shanghai)
Michael Westberg, postdoctoral scholar → assistant professor at Aarhus University (Denmark)
Stephen Wenceslao Evans, PhD student → founder at Boulder Creek Research Institute
Guofeng Zhang, postdoctoral scholar → neurosurgery resident at Sun Yatsen Hospital (Guangzhou)
Vandon Duong, master's student → PhD student with Crystal Mackall
Shawn Dhillon, rotation student → PhD student with Richard Lewis
Lin Ning, postdoctoral scholar → venture partner at Valkyrie Fund
Dong Li, life science research professional → life science research professional with Joe Wu
Mariya Chavarha, PhD student → scientist at Encodia Inc.
Namdoo Kim, postdoctoral scholar → assistant professor at Kongju University
Julia Park, life science research professional
Bongjae Benjamin Kim, PhD student → associate at Playground ventures
Garam Kim, rotation student → PhD student with Aaron Gitler
Emma Costa, rotation student → PhD student with Tony Wyss-Coray
Hokyung Kay Chung, PhD student → Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellow with Susan Kaech lab (Salk)
Bryce Bajar, research assistant → MD PhD student at UCLA
Yunwen Huo, life science research professional → diagnostics startup
Ying Yang, postdoctoral scholar → venture partner at Beijing ventures
Mengli Feng, undergraduate student → college student at Peking University
Muziyue Wu, undergraduate student → PhD student at UCSF
Cory Pan, high school student → college student at Rice University
Julianne Catherine Kim, high school student → college student at Columbia
Ryan Badiee, undergraduate student → MD student at UCSF
Conor Jacobs, PhD student
Xin Zhou, PhD student → postdoctoral fellow in James Wells lab (UCSF) → assistant professor at Harvard Medical School
Lagnajeet Pradhan, postdoctoral scholar → scientist at Orca Bio
Julia Cho, high school student → college student at MIT
Younghee Oh, postdoctoral scholar → scientist at Korea national forensic laboratory
Yang Geng, postdoctoral scholar → staff scientist at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
Francois St-Pierre, postdoctoral scholar → assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University
Michael Pan, research assistant → MD student at Northwestern
Jun Chu, postdoctoral scholar → assistant professor at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology
Amy Lam, PhD student → investment fellow at Life Science Angels
Yoon Seok Kim, rotation student → PhD student with Brian Kobilka and Karl Deisseroth
Yong Tang, rotation student → PhD student with Ellen Yeh
David Wang, rotation student → PhD student with Liqun Luo
Emily S. Wang, high school student → college student at Harvard
Linlin Fan, research assistant → PhD student at Harvard
Jacqueline Jialin Tao, undergraduate student → MD student at Stanford
Hyokeun Park, postdoctoral scholar → associate professor at HKUST
Jihye Seong, postdoctoral scholar → principal investigator at KIST
Amanda Miguel, rotation student → PhD student with Russ Altman
Xiaozhe Ding, undergraduate student → PhD student at Caltech
Aditya Nandy, high school student → undergraduate student at UC Berkeley
Jessica Hsu, undergraduate student → medical student at U Pittsburgh
Austin Lee-Richerson, graduate student → management consultant at BCG
William Chen, undergraduate student → MD student at Yale
Margaret Butko, postdoctoral scholar → scientist at Genentech
Chi Zhang, undergraduate student → PhD student at MIT
Arielle Yablonovitch, rotation student → PhD student with Jin Billy Lee
Fon Kanokwan, undergraduate student
Prae Numswangneth, undergraduate student → OSISoft Asia
Veronica Rangel Alarcon, research assistant → PhD student at Stanford
Alexandar Reinaldo Perez, undergraduate student → MD PhD student at Weill Cornell - Rockefeller - Sloan Kettering
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