Alumni staff

Meiyi Li

Biography

Dr. Li obtained her PhD in bioinformatics from the Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2016. From 2017 to 2021, she joined the Institute of Fudan-Minhang Academic Health System, Minhang Hospital at Fudan University as an assistant research fellow and principal investigator.

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Xianzhe Que

Biography

Xianzhe is a sophomore at the University of Minnesota majoring in biology. He joined the Dong lab in May 2024.

 Xianzhe Que

Paola Rivera

Biography

Paola Rivera is a sophomore studying biochemistry with a minor in statistics at the University of Minnesota. She joined the Dong lab in January 2024 with hopes to combine her skills in the biological and statistical fields. 

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Chen Zheng

Biography

Chen is a graduate student at the Center for Single Cell Omics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She joined Dong Laboratory as a visiting student in 2024.

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Kidus Hailemariam

Biography
Kidus Hailemariam joined Dong's  lab as a bioinformatician in April of 2023. He is a second year master's student with a major in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology  and a minor in computer science. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
 

 
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Kathleen Delany, MS

Biography

Ms. Delany obtained her bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of Minnesota, Twin
Cities in 2018, and MS in bioinformatics at Loyola University Chicago in 2020. In 2021, she
joined the Xiao Dong laboratory as a Researcher.

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Elijah Torbenson

Biography

Elijah is a junior at the University of Minnesota studying Biochemistry with a minor in Statistics.  He joined the Dong Lab in January of 2022 training as a bioinformatician.

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Ruchen Wang

Biography

Ruchen Wang is a fourth-year undergraduate majoring in Biology at the College of Biological Sciences. She joined the Xiao Dong laboratory in September of 2021.

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Lei Zhang, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. Zhang obtained her PhD in microbiology in the Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014. She completed postdoc training in the Department of Genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2021. After that, she joined the Xiao Dong laboratory as an Research Assistant  Professor.

 

Lei Zhang