News

Summer 2026

We welcome new visiting scholar, Dr. Jingsheng Jiang to the lab.

Congratulations to Katherine Holandez-Lopez and Conor Pulliam for being selected as oral presenters for the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) 2026 Annual Meeting and Exhibition!

We welcome new visiting scholar, Dr. Jingsheng Jiang to the lab.

Congratulations to Michael Madden, Dan Xue, Mingming Xu, and Katherine Holandez-Lopez on their paper being accepted into the PNAS journal!

We welcome new undergraduate intern, George Xu to the lab. 

We welcome new undergraduate intern, Alexis Manzano to the lab.

We welcome new post-doctoral research fellow, Hengbo Wu to the lab.

Spring 2026

We welcome new graduate student Xiao Hanyu to the lab.

We welcome new undergraduates, Henry Tian and Joe Griffith to the lab.

We welcome new post-doctoral research fellow, Wei Xiuting to the lab.

We welcome new laboratory assistant, Page Ellingson to the lab.

We welcome new pharmacy student, Lisa Yang to the lab.

Congratulations to Roger Freidl on presenting his research at Pharmacy Research Excellence Day and winning the award for Best Undergraduate Abstract!

Fall 2025

The Li Lab moves from the University of South Carolina to the University of Texas at Austin! 

Congratulations to Michael Madden on presenting at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) 2025!

We welcome new undergraduates, Roger Freidl, Param Bajaj, and Adrian Quintana to the lab.