Lab Members
Nicholas Navin, Ph.D.
The Grady F Saunders, PhD, Distinguished Professorship for Molecular Biology Professor
Damon-Runyon Innovator
AAAS Wachtel Scholar
Professor
Core Director, CPRIT Integrated Single Cell Genomics Center (Single Cell)
Co-Director, Advanced Technology Genomics Core
NNavin@mdanderson.org
Research Staff
Emi Sei, Ph.D.
Principal Research Scientist
esei@mdanderson.org
Shanshan Bai, M.S.
Research Investigator
SBai@mdanderson.org
Anna Casasent, Ph.D.
Computational Scientist
CPRIT Integrated Single Cell Genomics Center (Single Cell)
AKCasasent@mdanderson.org
Min Hu, M.S.
Computational Scientist
CPRIT Integrated Single Cell Genomics Center (Single Cell)
MHu1@mdanderson.org
Jerome Lin, M.S.
Computational Scientist
CPRIT Integrated Single Cell Genomics Center (Single Cell)
JLin9@mdanderson.org
Tiffany Nguyen
Research Assistant II
Mitchell Rao, B.S.
Computational Scientist
MMRao@mdanderson.org
Tuan Tran, B.S.
Coordinator, Research Laboratory, CPRIT Integrated Single Cell Genomics Center (Single Cell)
TMTran2@mdanderson.org
Jianzhuo Li, Ph.D.
Research Investigator, CPRIT Integrated Single Cell Genomics Center (Single Cell)
jli33@mdanderson.org
Research Track Faculty
Kaile Wang, Ph.D.
Instructor
KWang5@mdanderson.org
Postdoctoral Fellows
Nicolaas Baudoin, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
"Reconstructing punctuated chromosome evolution in early stage breast cancers"
NBaudoin@mdanderson.org
Rachel Dittmar, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
"Delineating tumor evolution in multi-organ metastatic breast cancer from post-mortem tissues"
RLDittmar@mdanderson.org
Ryan Mulqueen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
rmulqueen@mdanderson.org
Andres Nevarez, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
ajnevarez@mdanderson.org
Aatish Thennavan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
AThennavan@mdanderson.org
Runmin Wei, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellowship Awardee
"Spatial and single cell genomics studies in breast cancer"
RWei2@mdanderson.org
Zhenna Xiao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
"Single cell genomic and functional analysis of therapy resistance in breast cancer"
ZXiao1@mdanderson.org
Yuehui Zhao, Ph.D.
Odyssey Postdoctoral Fellow
"Delineating the tumor clonal evolution of therapeutic
resistance and identifying clinical biomarkers in metastatic prostate
cancer using single-cell sequencing and liquid biopsy
genomics"
yzhao16@mdanderson.org
Graduate Students
Siyuan He, Master of Medicine in Oncology
MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Quantitative Sciences Program
SHe2@mdanderson.org
Jake Leighton, B.S.
MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Quantitative Sciences Program
JLeighton@mdanderson.org
Yiyun Lin, B.S.
Dr. John J. Kopchick Fellowship Recipient
MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Quantitative Sciences Program
YLin54@mdanderson.org
Junke Wang, B.S.
MD Anderson School of Health Professions
JWang48@mdanderson.org
Ping Xu, M.M.
MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Cancer Biology Program
PXu@mdanderson.org
Yun Yan, B.S.
MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Quantitative Sciences Program
YYan7@mdanderson.org
Lei Yang, M.S.
MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Quantitative Sciences Program
LYang15@mdanderson.org
Hanghui Ye, B.S.
MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Genetics and Epigenetics Program
HYe3@mdanderson.org
Jie Ye, B.S.
MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Genetics and Epigenetics Program
JYe1@mdanderson.org
Rui Ye, MP
MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Cancer Biology and Quantitative Sciences Programs
RYe@mdanderson.org
Alumni
Anna Casasent, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Neuroscience Department
Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX
Alexander Davis, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ted Sargent Lab
University of Toronto, Canada
Haowei Du, M.S.
Graduate Student
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Ruli Gao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Center for Cancer Genomics/Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center/Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Antonio Giordano, M.D., Ph.D.
Physician
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA
Charissa Kim, M.D., Ph.D.
Integrated IR/DR Resident
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard
Boston, MA
Tapsi Kumar, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Bristol Myers Squibb
Boston, MA
Marco Leung, Ph.D., FACMG
Clinical Director and Assistant Professor
The Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Yuwei Lin, M.S.
Master's Student
Annalyssa Long, B.S.
Research Technician
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA
Darlan Conterno Minussi, Ph.D.
Senior Computational Biologist
Pfizer Oncology, San Diego, CA
Mashait Rabbani, M.S.
PhD pre-candidate
University of Michigan, Department of Human Genetics
Ann Arbor, MI
Naveen Ramesh, Ph.D.
Personalis
Menlo Park, CA
Aislyn Schalck, Ph.D.
Institute Research Investigator, Computational Biology
Translational Research to Advance Therapeutics and Innovation in Oncology (TRACTION)
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Xiuqing Shi
Graduate Student
Yong Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Institute of Medical Research
Madison, WI
Jill Waters
Laboratory Coordinator