Current Members
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Xu Wang, Ph.D. Assistant ProfessorDr. 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 10% appointment at Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) and is an Affiliated Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at AU College of Agriculture.
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Xiaozhu (Gloria) Wang, Ph.D. PostdocGloria is an Auburn graduate with a Ph.D. degree in Fisheries and she joined the lab in September 2017. Her work is focusing on the jewel wasp genome sequencing projects and genomic imprinting in placental guppy fish.
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Xiao Xiong, B.S. Graduate studentMs. 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 studentMs. 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. Incoming graduate studentMr. Zhou graduated from Xiamen University in 2018 and he is admitted to the Biomedical Science graduate program starting August 2019. He is award 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.
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Xiaolei Ma, B.S. Incoming graduate studentMs. 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 she will join the lab in August 2019. She will be 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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Lab Alumni
Xianfei (Fei) Sun, Ph.D. TES tech (2018)
Fei helped with a number of projects in the lab between February and August 2018.
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.