I completed my Ph.D. training at Harvard with Elliott Kieff, uncovering the complex host-pathogen chromatin interactions during viral-driven lymphomagenesis. I next moved west for some warmth and sunshine, where I worked with Garry Nolan at Stanford on technology development and ways to better interrogate biological systems. My current interests lie at the intersection of addressing critical questions in host-disease interactions, through the development and applications of novel spatial technology platforms and computational algorithms. Ongoing work includes the biology of viral pathogenesis, tumor biology, and immune dysregulation.

My doctoral thesis focused on solving the molecular mechanisms driving humoral immune evasion during human cytomegalovirus infection, with the aim of identifying viral targets for novel intervention and prevention strategies. Outside the lab, I enjoy interior designing and traveling.

I am a biostatistician by training. Currently, my research interests are mostly in medical image analysis and machine learning methods. In my leisure time, I enjoy photography, cooking, badminton, and kendo.

Hello! My name is always mispronounced, and I am currently older than I look. I am pursuing a PhD in Virology at Harvard, where I spend too much time daydreaming and learning in the lab. I find viruses fascinating for their extraordinary capabilities despite being minuscule pieces of genetic material, and I admire the potential for highly multidisciplinary research. Outside of work, I enjoy playing the piano and gaming with my friends.

I started out studying microbiology and cancer biology in the lab before transitioning to more computational work and bioinformatics. I’ve always been a visual learner so I’m really excited by spatial technologies and where they can take biology research in the near future. Outside of the lab, I’m always looking for my next hiking trip and I’m also a big basketball fanatic.

I am passionate about advancing research that transforms healthcare and benefits mankind. Germinal centres and B cells are my first scientific loves, but I am keen on expanding my arsenal of scientific tools, so I can delve into diverse biological researchareas in the future. After long days at work, I recharge by reading a (non-scientific) book and enjoying a cup of tea. I also enjoy travelling, hiking, and singing.

I fell in love with bench work while spending summers with my dad while he was in a PhD program, and bench work is all I’ve wanted to do since. I attended Lewis & Clark college and got a BA in Biochemistry and Molecular biology and a few years later joined a histology core in Oregon. My interests lie in all things tissue (so long as it can’t talk back).

I was recruited to the CVVR in Feb 2023 to bring research histotechnology capabilities to the institute. I split my time between Sizun’s lab, Dan Barouch’s lab and running the Tissue Technologies Unit.

After finishing high school in Germany, I moved to Cambridge (UK) for my undergraduate and master’s degrees where I worked with Dr. Geoffrey Smith on SARS-CoV-2 innate immune evasion and Dr. Colin Crump on HSV-1 tegument proteins, respectively. I then moved to the US in 2022 and am currently a G2 graduate student in the Virology PhD Program. My previous rotations were with Dr. Ben Gewurz and Dr. Philip Kranzusch, after which I rotated in and then joined the Jiang lab. My primary research interests are host-pathogen interactions at the immunity interface as well as the development and implementation of novel spatial technologies.

I completed my doctoral training with Ben Gewurz at Harvard. Through transcriptomics and proteomics approaches, I constructed the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)-B cell protein-protein interaction map, uncovering multiple mechanisms the virus employs to evade host intrinsic and innate immune pathways. Outside the lab, I enjoy photography and running.

I completed my M.D. training few months ago and work as a physician in theendocrinology department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University. My research interest is thyroid disease, especially thyroid cancer. I’ve been focusing on exploration of molecular mechanisms of thyroid cancer with bioinformatic analysis. Spatialomics is fascinating for me and will be my next pursuing target. As a sports lover, I am fond of playing badminton, jogging and hiking.

During my PhD in the lab of Annika Keller in Zurich, I focused on brain vasculature and the blood – brain barrier in health and disease – with special focus on drug delivery to brain tumors. For my first PostDoc, I left Switzerland and moved back to Austria and with this I also moved away from CNS. In the Genes and Disease Lab of Erwin Wagner I got fascinated by cancer – associated cachexia and neuromuscular junctions. Also, I am a big fan of Pericytes. Outside the lab, I enjoy discovering my knowledge gaps during Pub Quiz.

I am a visiting researcher from the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat – Sen University (Guangzhou, China). In the future, I hope to focus my research on the tumor immune microenvironment. I enjoy participating in outdoor activities such as hiking. If it is possible, I would like to learn to play the guitar.

During my Ph.D. life, I was co-trained in a wet lab (Dr. Zihai Li at OSU) and a dry lab (Dr. Qin Ma at OSU) for developing and applying machine/deep learning tools to study anti-tumor immunity. For computation,  I am interested in modeling biological pattern presentation using graph-based methods. Regarding biology, I prefer to mine atlas-level data to study T-cell exhaustion mechanisms in different conditions. In the future, I would like to work in this direction in-depth.

I completed the first years of my medical studies in Lyon then my residency and my MD under the supervision of Dr. Olivier Casasnovas in Dijon. I was particularly passionate about lymphomas and immunotherapies. I therefore completed a PhD in immunology on the immune microenvironment in T-cell lymphomas, in Yenkel Grinberg-Bleyer’s team at the Lyon Cancer Research Center. I am very interested in immunology in lymphomas, a dark zone where the tumor cells themselves come from the immune system.

I am a visiting graduate student from Dr. Sonia del Rincon’s lab at McGill University, where I am studying the effects of the MNK-eIF4E axis in the tumor microenvironment. My primary research focuses on understanding the relationship between phospho-eIF4E and cancer-associated fibroblasts. I love to do crossword puzzles and am an avid Philadelphia sports fanatic.

I completed my M.D. training in Kidney Transplant department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University (FAH-SYSU) and worked as a surgeon in the Liver Transplant department. My research interest is in the immune and metabolic microenvironment of liver at diseased (especially cancer) and transplanted status. I have been focusing on exploring immune mechanism underlying liver cancers using bioinformatics methods, including bulk, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. I would like to pursue further training in the field of spatial-omics. I enjoy rogue-like and metroidvania games in my spare time.