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Principal Investigator

Yu Lu received both BSc and MSc degrees after working in Prof. Pengyuan Yang's laboratory in the Department of Chemistry at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He got his PhD degree in analytical chemistry at University of Washington after training in Dr. Ruedi Aebersold's laboratory at Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA. He then completed his postdoctoral training jointly in the laboratories of Dr. Jarrod Marto (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) and Dr. Chance John Luckey (Brigham and Women's Hospital) at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. He also worked as the Proteomics Group Leader at Moderna Therapeutics, an exciting biotechnology firm in Cambridge, MA.

In January 2016, Yu and his family moved to Hamilton, Ontario after accepting an offer from McMaster University. He hopes to establish a research program that focuses on understanding the RNA-protein interactions in human cells, with the help of so many wonderful trainees he was able to recruit. Besides, as an amateur photographer, Yu also looks forward to visiting all of the beautiful waterfalls in the surrounding Niagara Escarpment.

Current Lab Members

Lina Liu, PhD student

Lina received her MSc degree from the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is working on understanding the role of RBM17 in cancer stem cell functions.

Sansi Xing, PhD student

Sansi received her MSc degree from the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is working on identification of proteins that mediate Tau regulations in human cortical neurons.

Ruilin Wu, Master of BDC student

Ruilin received his BHSc degree from the Biomedical Discovery and Commercialization program at McMaster University. He is currently developing sample preparation methods that will enable comprehensive proteomic investigation in as few as 100-1000 human cells.

Akshat Pai, Undergrad student

Akki is a 4th year thesis student from the Biomedical Discovery and Commercialization (BDC) program at McMaster University. He is currently working on protoemic methodology optimization to perform quantitative proteomics for 1000 human cells.

Ainsley Yingxi Lin, Undergrad student

Ainsley is in her 4th year in the Biomedical Discovery and Commercialization (BDC) program at McMaster University. She is currently working on a project to understand the role of RBM17 in cancer.

Lab Alumni

2019 Rachel Lai, Undergrad student (currently in 5th year of Biomedical specialization Co-Op program at McMaster)

Annabelle Pfeifle, Undergrad student (currently graduate student at University of Ottawa)

Vraj Shah, Undergrad student (currently in MBDC program at McMaster University)

Kaiyuan Wang, Undergrad student (currently graduate student at Western University)

2018 Piyanka Sivarajah, MSc student (currently at Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto)

Rui-Xuan Michelle Yu, Undergrad student (currently at University of Toronto School of Medicine)

Jane Wang, Undergrad student (currently at Fluidigm Corp)

2017 Tony Shi, Undergrad volunteer (currently at University of Toronto)

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