
Xiaoyu Shi
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor
Department of Developmental and Cell Biology
Department of Chemistry
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Irvine
PhD, University of California, Davis
Postdoc, University of California, San Francisco
Lab: 2403 Natural Sciences I
Tel: (949) 824-7638
Email: xiaoyu.shi@uci.edu
X/Twitter: @XiaoyuShi2
ORCID: 0000-0002-9634-2659
Assistant program leader, BIDD program, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (CFCCC)
Faculty member of :
Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (MIND)
Center for Complex Biological Systems (CCBS)
NSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research (CMCF)
The Center for Neural Circuit Mapping (CNCM)
Center for Aging Research in Down Syndrome (CAR-DS)




Shalini Pradhan
Postdoc, Mar 2025
PhD, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yajin(Ian) Mo
PhD student, July 2023
BS, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences


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Undergraduate Student Researchers
Lucy Yiseon Park
Undergrad Researcher
Feb 2025
Biological Sciences
Jessica-Ann Villa
Undergrad Researcher
Mar 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Anh Kim Pham
Undergrad Researcher
Feb 2025
Biomedical Engineering

Yunong (Francis) Wang
Undergrad Researcher
Apr 2026
Chemistry
Alumni
Name | Position | Period | Current |
|---|---|---|---|
Jiaxi Zhang | Junior Specialist | Feb 2020 - Jul 2021 | USC |
Andrew McColloch | Postdoc | Aug 2020 - Aug 2021 | Scientist, AbbVie |
Natalie Williams | Visiting student | Jun 2021 - Aug 2021 | UC Berkeley |
Khoi Nguyen | Undergrad researcher | Jul 2020 - Sep 2021 | Specialist, LensCrafters |
Kyubeom Choi | Undergrad researcher | Sep 2021 - Feb 2022 | Yonsei University |
Nan Shi | Postdoc | Jun 2021 - Apr 2022 | Assitant Professor, Shanghai University |
Katie Fong | Undergrad researcher | Sep 2020 - Jun 2022 | Cal State LA |
Yiqing Zhang | Undergrad researcher | Sep 2021 - Oct 2022 | UCI |
Adrian Chao | Lab manager & Junior Specialist | Oct 2021 - Mar 2023 | Notre Dame |
Steven Lam | Undergrad researcher | Mar 2021 - Jul 2023 | UCI |
Shehreen Hassan | Undergrad researcher | Mar 2021 - Jul 2023 | Johns Hopkins University |
Navya Sri Sangam | Undergrad researcher | Sep 2021 - Jul 2023 | |
Ziyi Ying | Undergrad researcher | Feb 2022 - Jul 2023 | |
Tiana Guo | High school researcher | Jul 2021 - Jul 2022 | UC Berkeley |
Jie Chen (CJ) | Assistant Project Scientist | May 2023 - Oct 2023 | UCI |
Sohyeon Park | PhD Student | July 2020 - Dec 2023 | UCLA |
Disha Patel | Undergrad researcher | Dec 2021 - Dec 2023 | UCI |
Nathan Huey | Undergrad researcher | May 2023 - Dec 2023 | UCI |

