
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Hazel Yu | Undergrad researcher | May 2023 - Dec 2023 | UCI |
Zhuoran Liu | Undergrad researcher | May 2023 - Dec 2023 | UCI |
Yuanyuan Wang | Postdoc | Jun 2023 - Apr 2024 | UCLA |
Sanath Nair | Undergrad researcher | May 2023 - May 2024 | UIUC |
Justin Vien | Undergrad researcher, UROP Awardee | Nov 2021- Aug 2024 | |
May(Yifan) Mei | Undergrad researcher, UROP Awardee | May 2023 - Sep 2024 | Yale University |
Brian Tran | Undergrad researcher, UROP Awardee | May 2023 - Sep 2024 | |
Carol(Zhao) Zhang | Postdoc Scholar | Jan 2024 - June 2025 | Scientist, Element Biosciences |
Sicheng(Melissa) Zhang | Postdoc Scholar | Apr2024-Apr2026 | |
Ashley Song | USR | Feb 2025-Apr 2026 | UCI |

