Current Members

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 Xu Wang, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor (PI)

Dr. Wang is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Genomics in the Department of Pathobiology at Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine (AUCVM), and an Adjunct Faculty Investigator at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HAIB). He also holds an appointment at Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) and is an Affiliated Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Auburn University College of Agriculture.
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​Xiao Xiong, B.S.  Graduate student

Ms. Xiong received her Bachelor's degree at Tianjin Medical University majoring in Bioinformatics. She was admitted to the Biomedical Sciences program in 2018. Ms. Xiong was awarded the Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship as the first dual-degree Ph.D. student under an agreement between Tongji and Auburn. Her project is on the DNA methylomes and mitochondrial evolution in the parasitoid jewel wasp genus Nasonia. 
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​Wenqi Cao, B.S.  Graduate student

Ms. Cao joined the lab in August 2018 to pursue her Ph.D. in the Biomedical Sciences Program as an AU Presidential Fellow. She received her Bachelor's degree in the School of Life Sciences and Technology at Tongji University in 2018. She is working on various projects using the laboratory marsupial model Monodelphis domestica. 
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Yihang Zhou, B.S.  Graduate student

Mr. Zhou graduated from Xiamen University in 2018 and he was admitted to the Biomedical Science Ph.D. program starting August 2019. He is awarded the prestigious AU Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship. His research interest is in bioinformatics, software development and machine learning to address research problems in comparative genomics and single-cell sequencing.  
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Xiaolei Ma, B.S. Graduate student

Ms. Ma received her B.S. degree in Biological Information Science at Nanjing Medical University. She is admitted to the Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program and joined the lab in August 2019. She is working on genomic and epigenomic basis of heterosis (hybrid vigor) vs. hybrid dysregulation in a variety of mammalian systems. She is also interested in the bioinformatic analyses of gut metagenomic data. 
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Haolong Wang, M.S. Graduate student

Mr. Haolong Wang earned his master's degree at Ocean University of China in 2019 and his B.S. degree at Guizhou University College of Animal Science in 2016. He is awarded a fellowship from CSC (China Scholarship Council) and the Auburn Presidential Graduate Research fellowship. He started in August 2019 to work on the catfish marker-assistant selection and the placental guppy fish genomic imprinting/evolution projects. 
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Jinbin Wang, Ph.D. Visiting Scholar

Dr. Jinbin Wang is an Associate Professor in the Biotechnology Research Institute at Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences (SAAS). His expertise is in food science, ecological environmental safety and agricultural genetics and breeding. He is visiting us from August 2019 to July 2020. 
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Jerry Lin Undergraduate researcher

Jerry is a talented undergraduate student at Columbus State University, majoring in Chemistry and minoring in Biology and Mathematics. He joined lab in May 2019 as an NSF-funded Bioinformatics REU student. He is working on jewel wasp genome analysis and annotation, including characterizing the mitochondrial genomes from five jewel wasp species using bioinformatic, comparative genomic and phylogenomic approaches. 

Lab Alumni

Xiaozhu (Gloria) Wang, Ph.D.  Postdoc (2017-2019)

Gloria did her postdoctoral research in the lab, working on the jewel wasp and Wolbachia genome sequencing projects. She also performed the genome assembly and genomic imprinting analyses in placental guppy fish. Gloria was also involved in the research to enhance the AU canine performance sciences colony. She accepted a job at Stanford University School of Medicine as a data scientist in 2020. We will continue to collaborate with her on several projects.  

Daniel Son  Undergrad (2018)

Daniel joined the lab in May 2018 as a junior in Animal Sciences, working on Nasonia line maintenance and curing Wolbachia infection in the jewel wasp Nasonia oneida. He took the Undergraduate Research in Veterinary Biomedical Sciences course (VBMS4980) in Fall 2018. 

Gabriel Touliatos  Undergrad (2017-2018)

Gabe did his undergraduate research project in Veterinary Biomedical Sciences as a senior in the lab. He designed and performed Pyrosequencing to genotype recessive disease mutations in AUCPS dogs.

Ting Li, Ph.D.  Postdoc (2017-2018)