Current Members

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

Dr. Wang is an Associate 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 Adjunct Associate Professor at Scott-Ritchey Research Center and 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 methylome and Wolbachia 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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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 the gut microbiome analyses in a variety of organism, including livestock, poultry, companion animals, and biomedical model organism Monodelphis domestica.
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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 genome-assistant selection, microbiome, and hybrid fish heterosis projects. 
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Yue Zhang, B.S. Graduate student

Ms. Yue Zhang completed her undergraduate degree at Tongji University in June 2020. She was admitted to the Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program and is an Auburn Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship recipient. She joined us in August 2021, and she is working on Monodelphis domestica as a model for biomedical research and canine placenta genomics.
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Ying Zhang, M.S.  Graduate student

Ms. Ying Zhang received a Master's degree from Ocean University of China in 2020 and a Bachelor’s degree from Anhui Agricultural University College of animal science and technology in 2017. She is awarded a China Scholarship Council Fellowship in 2020. Her research is primarily focus on comparative genomics and evolutionary analyses in the placenta guppy fish family Poeciliidea. Ying is also interested in the  genetics and genomics of parasitoid wasp species as a biological control agent.
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Lab Alumni

Jerry Lin Undergraduate researcher (2019-2020)

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 worked on jewel wasp genome analysis and annotation, including characterizing the mitochondrial genomes from five jewel wasp species using bioinformatic, comparative genomic and phylogenomic approaches. Jerry is currently a Ph.D. student at Indiana University Bloomington.

Jinbin Wang, Ph.D. Visiting Scholar (2019-2020)

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 visited us from August 2019 to July 2020 and did a genome sequencing project in the parasitoid jewel wasp species Nasonia vitripennis related to mtDNA and Wolbachia characterization. 

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

Gloria worked on the jewel wasp and Wolbachia genome sequencing and evolutionary analyses projects.  She was also involved in the research with the AUCVM canine performance sciences program.  During her time in the Wang Lab, she published 3 first-author and 3 co-authored papers.  In September 2019, she accepted a job at Stanford University School of Medicine as a data scientist . She is currently working at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.  

Daniel Son  Undergraduate researcher (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  Undergraduate researcher (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.