People

Jing Yang (PI) [jiyang@ucsd.edu] - She worked under Dr. Sally Kornbluth at Duke University during her graduate studies, investigating cellular mechanisms controlling the initiation of mitosis. She then did a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Robert Weinberg at the Whitehead Institute before coming to UCSD in 2006.

Laurent Fattet (Postdoc) [lfattet@ucsd.edu] - studying the mechanoregulation of Twist1 by ECM and its role in mediating EMT and tumor invasion. He obtained his PhD from University of Lyon (France).

Lindy Jiang (Biology graduate student) [yij019@ucsd.edu] - identifying novel regulators of invadopodia-mediated ECM degradation in breast cancer metastasis. She received her BA in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley.

Hae-Yun Jung (Postdoc) [haj004@ucsd.edu] - researching the plasticity of Twist1-mediated EMT in tumor dormancy as well as circulating tumor cells analysis using transient mice. She is also investigating the mechanism underlying the crosstalk between Snail1-induced EMT and microenvironment. She obtained her PhD from Korea University (Korea).

Daehwan Kim (Postdoc) [dak112@ucsd.edu] - studying the relationship of receptor tyrosine kinases and TWIST1 depending on ECM rigidity. He obtained his PhD from Chung-Ang University (Korea).

Hannah Majeski (BMS graduate student) [hmajeski@ucsd.edu] - studying the mechanotransduction pathway that regulates Twist, and its role in Twist1-mediated EMT and metastasis.

Kay Yeung (Postdoc) [k7yeung@ucsd.edu] - EMT and metastasis dormancy. She obtained her MD/PhD from New York University.