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.
Sun Choo (Assistant Professor in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology) [shchoo@rchsd.org]
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.
Ping Wang (Visiting Scientist) [piwang@ucsd.edu]
Kay Yeung (Postdoc) [k7yeung@ucsd.edu] - EMT and metastasis dormancy. She obtained her MD/PhD from New York University.
Undergraduates
Tiffany Lee
Julian Alcantar
Past Members
Emi Casas (BMS graduate student) - Currently a postdoc fellow at the Scripps Research Institute.
Mark Eckert (Molecular Pathology graduate student) - Currently a postdoc fellow at Univ. of Chicago.
Janine Low-Marchelli (BMS graduate student) - Currently a scientist at Jackson Laboratory in Sacramento.
Andy Chang (PharmD/PhD graduate student) - Currently a clinical pharmacology manager at Prizer.
Spencer Wei (BMS graduate student) - Currently a postdoc fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center
Navneeta Pathak (BMS graduate student) - Currently a Global Scientific Communications Manager at Amgen.
Noah Spiegel (BMS graduate student) - Currently a research associate at Pfizer.
Etienne Danis (Postdoc) - Currently a postdoc at Univ. of Colorado, Denver.
Jeff Tsai (Postdoc) - Currently a scientist at Illumina.
Helicia Paz (Postdoc) - Currently a project scientist at UCLA.
Shan Li (Postdoc) - Currently a scientist at Illumina.
Fanni Li (Visiting graduate student)
Wei Wang (Visiting graduate student)
May Li (Master's student)
Trenis Palmer (Postdoc)
Youya Nakazawa (Visiting scientist)
Miguel Santiago (Postdoc)