Former Lab Members
To all former Gu lab members — We are deeply grateful to you for your contributions to our research and for shaping the lab’s journey. Our progress would not have been possible without your dedication and creativity!
To all former Gu lab members — We are deeply grateful to you for your contributions to our research and for shaping the lab’s journey. Our progress would not have been possible without your dedication and creativity!
Postdoctoral Researchers
Min Jia (2019~2025).
Current position: Professor, Institute of Future Agriculture, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University
Yu Tang (2017~2023).
Current position: Principal Investigator/Assistant Professor, Institute of Advanced Agriculture Sciences, Peking University
Xin Li (2020~2021).
Current position: Professor, School of Life Science, Northeast Forestry University
Feifei Xu (2017~2019).
Current position: Associate Professor, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University
Aobo Huang (2017~2019).
Current position: Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University
Xuetao Shi (2018~2019).
Current position: Principal Investigator, XIANGHU Laboratory, Zhejiang, China
Graduate Students
Yiling Fang (2020~2025).
Current position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Salk Institute
Enrico Calvanese (2020~2026).
Current position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford
Ryan Kenneally (2021~2026).
Undergraduate Researchers
Rachel Bai (SPUR & URAP, 2023-2026) Rose Hill Fellowship Awardee, ASBP SURF Awardee, Melis Medalist; Current: graduate student at Cal Tech
Rui Tong Khor (SPUR, 2025-2026)
Roxanne May (SPUR & URAP, 2024-2026)
Doogie Kim (SPUR & URAP, 2024-2025) Department Citation Awardee, Honors Thesis
Yushan Wang (Summer student from UWM, 2025)
Kelsey Finnigan (URAP, 2024-2025) Chuck Lorre Research Scholar
Wesley Bobst (URAP & SPUR, 2024-2025) Honors Thesis; Current: graduate student at University of Utah
Kendall Hsieh (URAP, 2023-2024); Current: graduate student at UCSF
Neha Jag (URAP, 2023-2024) URAP Summer Fellowship Awardee, Berkeley SURF Awardee, Compass Scholar
Marvin Chen (URAP, 2023-2024)
Raghad Osman (SPUR, 2023-2024)
Peiqiao (Jocelyn) Xie (URAP, 2021-2023) URAP Summer Fellowship Awardee, Honors Thesis; Current: graduate student at Cornell
Brian Yang (SPUR, 2022-2023)
Yeram Hong (URAP, 2021-2023); Current: graduate student at UC Davis
Olivia Xie (SPUR, 2022-2023)
Haoyang Zhu (URAP, 2022)
Gabryel Steinmetz (URAP, 2021-2022)
Zonyha Velez-Ferrer (NSF-REU, 2021)
Haina Jin (URAP, 2019-2022); Current: graduate student at University of Washington at St Louis
Reine Ngnonsse (SPUR, 2020)
Sonali Pfile (URAP, 2020) Department Citation Awardee
Yixuan (Jack) Chen (Exchange student, 2020); Current: graduate student at Duke University
Elena Ochoa (URAP, 2019-2020)