LAB TEAM
DR. JOE (HUANYU) QIAO
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Associate Professor
Department of Comparative Biosciences
Department of Bioengineering
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology
The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB)
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL)
Email: hqiao@illinois.edu
Phone: (217) 300-5397
Yu Liu
VISITING SCHOLAR
Wenjie Yang
GRADUATE RESEARCHER
Shuangqi Wang
GRADUATE RESEARCHER
Abhinav Chappidi
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Victoria He
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Phuong Mai Hoang Phi
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Jertin Mao
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Tvisha Gandhi
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Atma Patel
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Shriyadita Bhilkar
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Armin Shirani
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Eshaan Jayaswamy
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Vidhi Patel
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
LAB ALUMNI
Anika Roy
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with high distinction!
Evan Zakharchenko
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with highest distinction!
Juan Dong
VISITING SCHOLAR
Jiaru Wu
VISITING STUDENT
Hasanur Alam
VISITING SCHOLAR
Angela Ho
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with highest distinction!
Sasha Maria Kakkassery
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with highest distinction!
Jiaming Qiu
VISITING SCHOLAR
Xing (Frank) Tian
VISITING SCHOLAR
Rujuta Chikodikar
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with highest distinction!
Wajeeha Tariq
VISITING STUDENT
Reza Rajabi
POSTDOC RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Dr. Reza Rajabi-Toustani has joined the IGB Core Facilities of UIUC.
JACOB MAY
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with high distinction!
Yiheng (SCOTT) Peng
GRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with his PhD in Summer 2023!
Currently working as a postdoc at the University of Chicago.
Ning Liu
GRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with his PhD in Spring 2023!
Currently working as a postdoc at Northwestern University.
ROYAL SHRESTHA
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with high distinction!
Currently attending the Carle Illinois School of Medicine at UIUC for his M.D. degree.
Zhengde Liu
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with high distinction!
Currently enrolled at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor as a PhD student.
ERICA HANA JOO
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with high distinction!
FAAIZA NUSAYBA SAIF
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with high distinction!
Accepted an offer from Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School!
Currently enrolled as a PhD student in Ohio State’s Immunology and Immunotherapeutic program with a first-year fellowship from the College of Medicine!
AASHNA PRAKASH
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with high distinction!
Yiding Xu
GRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with a MS degree in Fall 2021
LOIS SUH
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with high honors!
ALLYSA COLE
VET MED RESEARCHER
TIANMING YOU
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Tianming You has been awarded highest distinction for his thesis research in 2018.
Currently enrolled in the MD/PhD program at Northwestern University.
Congratulations! Tianming finished his PhD phase of the MD/PhD program at Northwestern University in 2025!
KELLY FAHEY
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Kelly has been admitted to the DPM program at Rosalind Franklin University.
XIAOFEI JIAO
VISITING SCHOLAR
Currently working as a postdoc and assistant researcher in Zhejiang University.
CHINTAN PATEL
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Chin has been admitted to the Doctoral Diversity Program at Johns Hopkins University Medical School.
SUPIPI MIRIHAGALLE
GRADUATE RESEARCHER
PhD program in Animal Sciences at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Graduated with Master of Science
JANETTE LAN
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with High Honors.
Currently enrolled as a graduate students at the University of British Columbia
PRANATHI KARUMANCHI
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with High Honors and High Distinction for thesis research.
Currently enrolled as an MD student at Loyola University’s Stritch School of Medicine!