LAB TEAM
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DR. JOE (HUANYU) QIAO
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Associate Professor
Department of Comparative Biosciences
Department of Bioengineering
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
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Hasanur
VISITING SCHOLAR
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Jiaming Qiu
VISITING SCHOLAR
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Xing (Frank) Tian
VISITING SCHOLAR
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Shuangqi Wang
GRADUATE RESEARCHER
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Qinan Hu
GRADUATE RESEARCHER
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Vidhi Patel
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
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Anika Roy
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
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Sasha Maria Kakkassery
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
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Angela Ho
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
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Damian Aldaco
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
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Nikola Le Tien
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
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Qaasim Jatoi
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
LAB ALUMNI
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Rujuta Chikodikar
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with highest disctinction!
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Wajeeha Tariq
VISITING SCHOLAR
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Reza Rajabi
POSTDOC RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Dr. Reza Rajabi-Toustani has joined the IGB Core Facilities of UIUC.
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JACOB MAY
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with high disctinction!
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Yiheng (SCOTT) Peng
GRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with PhD in Summer 2023!
Currently worked as a postdoc in the University of Chicago.
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Ning Liu
GRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with PhD in Spring 2023!
Currently worked as a postdoc in Northwest University.
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ROYAL SHRESTHA
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with high disctinction!
Currently attended Carle Illinois School of Medicine at UIUC for M.D. degree.
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Zhengde Liu
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with high disctinction!
Currently enrolled in University of Michigan-Ann Arbor as a PhD.
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ERICA HANA JOO
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with high disctinction!
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FAAIZA NUSAYBA SAIF
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with high disctinction!
Accepted the offer from Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School!
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AASHNA PRAKASH
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with high distinction!
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Yiding Xu
GRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with MS in Fall 2021
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LOIS SUH
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with high honors!
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ALLYSA COLE
VET MED RESEARCHER
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TIANMING YOU
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Tianming You has been awarded highest distinction for his thesis research in 2018.
MD/PhD program at Northwestern University.
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KELLY FAHEY
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Kelly has been admitted to DPM program at Rosalind Franklin University.
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XIAOFEI JIAO
VISITING SCHOLAR
Currently worked as a postdoc and assistant researcher in Zhejiang University.
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CHINTAN PATEL
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Chin has been admitted to Doctoral Diversity Program in Medical school at Johns Hopkins University.
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SUPIPI MIRIHAGALLE
GRADUATE RESEARCHER
PhD program in Animal Sciences at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Graduated with Master of Science
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JANETTE LAN
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with High Honors
currently enrolled as a graduate students at the University of British Columbia
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PRANATHI KARUMANCHI
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
Graduated with High Honors and High Distinction for thesis research.
currently enrolled in Loyola University Medical Center as a medical student