Our Team

Yunsun Nam

Associate Professor

Laboratory of RNA Biology

Department of Biochemistry, Department of Biophysics


Robyn Scott

MD/PhD MSTP Student

Biological Chemistry Graduate Program

B.S. Creighton University, Omaha, NE 


Chi Zhang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Ph.D.  University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

B.S. Peking University, China


Victor Ruiz-Arroyo

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Ph.D. University of Barcelona, Spain

M.Sc.  and B.S University of Valencia, Spain 


Mudassar Ali Khan

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Ph.D. ACTREC, Navi-Mumbai, India

B.S. Tata Institute of Funadamental Research, Mumbai, India


Lily Linh Nguyen

UTD/UTSW Green Fellow

Undergraduate student at University of Texas Dallas, Dallas, TX


Jacob Canepa

PhD Student 

Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program

B.S.  Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA


Ahmed Rushdi

Research Technician

B.A. Austin College, Sherman, TX


Aleksandra Sokolowska

Graduate Student Assistant / BioLab Program

B.S. University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland


Jie Li

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Ph.D. Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

B.S. Jilin University, China


David Guarin

PhD Student

Biological Chemistry Graduate Program

B.S. Boston University


Aurora Tong

Amgen Summer Scholar 

Undergraduate at Harvard University


Fabian Lopez

Postbac (PB2PHD) student 

B.S. Texas Christian University