Principal Investigator
Xuehua Zhong, Ph.D
Position title: Associate Professor
Email: xuehua.zhong@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-316-4421
Address:
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Laboratory of Genetics
University of Wisconsin
330 N. Orchard Street, Rm 2114
Madison, WI 53715
Wuhan University, BS 1999
Wuhan University, MS 2002
Ohio State University, PhD 2007
Postdoctoral Fellows
Graduate Students
SARAH LEICHTER
Position title: Graduate Student, Genetics Training Program
Email: smleichter@wisc.edu
Research Scientists
Undergraduate Students & High School Students
Former Postdoc Fellows & Graduate Students
Xiangsong Chen, Ph.D
Position title: Postdoctoral Associate
Phone: Jan 2014-Dec 2018
Address:
Last Known: Professor at Wuhan University
Dean Sanders, Ph.D
Position title: Graduate Student
Phone: Dec 2013 - Nov 2018
Address:
Last Known: Bioinformatician at UW Madison
Li Lu, Ph.D
Position title: Postdoc fellow
Phone: Apr, 2014-Apr, 2017
Address:
Last Known: Professor at Wuhan University
Kevin Mayer
Position title: Graduate Student
Phone: Dec, 2015-Apr, 2018
Address:
Last Known: Graduate Student at UW-Madison
Bo Wang
Position title: Visiting Graduate Student
Phone: Feb 2018-Oct 2019
Address:
Last Known: Graduate student at Nanjing Agricultural University
Jiani Chen, Ph.D
Position title: Postdoctoral Associate
Phone: Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
Address:
Last Known: Actuarial Analyst, Milliman IntelliScript
Former Scientist & Visiting Scientists
Ziqiang Liu, Ph.D
Position title: Visiting Scholar
Email: ziqiang.liu@icloud.com
Phone: Jan, 2016-Dec, 2016
Address:
Associate Professor @ South China Agricultural University
Gaofeng Liu
Position title: Visiting Scholar
Email: 2014204016@njau.edu.cn
Phone: Oct, 2016-Mar, 2017
Address:
PhD Student @ Nanjing Agriculture University
Zhouyuan Shen
Position title: Biological Sciences Shanghai Jiaotong University
Phone: Sep, 2017-Apr, 2018
Address:
Graduate Student @ UW Madison
Hidetaka Ito Ph.D
Position title: Visiting Professor
Email: hito@sci.hokudai.ac.jp
Address:
Hokkaido University
Adeline Ding, MS
Position title: Assistant Researcher
Phone: Feb 2019 - May 2020
Address:
Last Known: Graduate Student, UW Madison
Former Undergraduates
Zoey Zou
Position title: Undergraduate researcher
Phone: Nov, 2013 – Dec, 2014
Address:
Undergraduate student @ University of Wisconsin, Madison
Rachael Fieweger
Position title: Undergraduate researcher
Phone: Nov, 2014 – May, 2016
Address:
Graduate student @ Cornell University
Hang Zhang
Position title: Summer Undergraduate researcher
Phone: Jul, 2015 – Sep, 2015
Address:
Graduate student @ Tsinghua University
Yeying Chen
Position title: Summer Undergraduate researcher
Phone: Jul, 2015 – Sep, 2015
Address:
Graduate student @ The Ohio State University
Ruirong Wang
Position title: Summer Undergraduate researcher
Phone: Jul, 2016 – Sep, 2016
Address:
Graduate student @ Hongkong University
Karolina Barej
Position title: Undergraduate researcher
Phone: Mar, 2015 – Mar, 2016
Address:
Undergraduate student @ University of Wisconsin, Madison
Caitilin Hoffman
Position title: Undergraduate researcher
Phone: Mar, 2015 – May, 2016
Address:
Undergraduate student @ University of Wisconsin, Madison
Jennifer Sowin
Position title: Undergraduate researcher
Phone: Sep, 2016 – Dec, 2016
Address:
Undergraduate student @ University of Wisconsin, Madison
Former High School students
Alice Ma
Position title: Summer high school student researcher
Phone: Jun, 2014 – Aug, 2014
Address:
Undergraduate student @ University of California, Berkeley
Reeken Patel
Position title: Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) high school student researcher
Phone: Jul, 2015 – Aug, 2015
Address:
High school student @ J.I. Case High School
Yang Chen
Position title: Youth Apprenticeship Program for Biotechnology (YAP) high school student researcher
Phone: Jan, 2014 – Aug, 2015
Address:
Undergraduate student @ University of Wisconsin, Madison
Lorenzo Contreras
Position title: Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) high school student researcher
Phone: Jul, 2016 – Aug, 2016
Address:
High school student @ Ronald Reagan High School
Sharon Yan
Position title: Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) high school student researcher
Phone: Jul, 2017 – Aug, 2017
Address:
High school Student @ Madison West High School