Principal Investigator: Zhenguo Lin, PhD Associate Professor       I received my B.S. degree from Wuhan University, China  and Ph.D. in 2008 from Pennsylvania State University, co-mentored by Drs. Masatoshi Nei and Hong Ma. I conducted my postdoctoral research from 2008 to 2012 in Dr. Wen-Hsiung Li's lab at University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty at SLU in the Fall of 2014, I was a Huxley Faculty Fellow at  Rice University.  Contact Information: Email: zhenguo.lin@slu.edu Office: 239 Macelwane  Hall Office phone:  314-977-9816 Current team members: Junhao Chen  Ph.D., Student of Biology MS. Zhejiang A&F University, China Email: junhao.chen@slu.edu Xiao Niu Ph.D., Student of Biology BVM. South China Agricultural University, China Email: xiao.niu@slu.edu Catherine Bailey MS student of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Email: catherine.bailey@slu.edu Brendan Walczak MS student of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Email: catherine.bailey@slu.edu Jacob Roth Undergraduate research assistants Email: jake.roth@slu.edu Chloe Muehlmeier Undergraduate research assistant, Email: chloe.muehlmeier@slu.edu Zain Hyder Undergraduate research assistant, Email: chloe.muehlmeier@slu.edu Adam Zhang High school research assistant Former Lab Members: Postdoctoral Scholar Zhenbin Hu, PhD  (2020-2022) Graduate Students Alison Mullis (Biology) 2015- 2018 Judith Rodriguez (BCB) 2018-2019 Keenan Berry (BCB) 2018-2019 Zhaolian Lu (Biology) 2015-2020 Chinye Nwokolo (BCB) 2020-2021 John Reddy Peasari  (BCB) 2019-2021 Katelyn Bagwill  (BCB) 2021-2022 Yu Zhan (Biology) 2018-2023 Faith Ikede (BCB) 2022-2023 Undergraduate students Ahmad Rajeh Ajay Chatrath Andrei Gonzalez Ayesha Khawaja Besher Alayoubi Jacob Linomaz Jon McMillan Julia Vu Katie Vaeth Mackenzie Carroll Mayur Khanna Niyati Bhakta Prathosh Velpuri Tarun Yandamuri William Park Haofeng Ye Isabella Ngo Lily Jiang Anthony Kirchner Visiting Scholars  Bin Wang, PhD Associate professor, Fujian A&F University, China 2016-2017 Tinghan Han Visiting student, Huaihai Insititute of Technology, China 2018