Current Members

Mavericks and misfits, us all, united by our love for cilia

Jeong Hun is a Research Scientist from South Korea. In his rare moments outside of lab, he likes to swim and watch movies.

Scientist

jeonghun.jo@wustl.edu

Jing is a physician-scientist trained in cell biology, immunology, and endocrinology. She likes solving biological questions using microscopes.

Lab head

jing.hughes@wustl.edu

Jeong Hun Jo, PhD

Jing Hughes, MD PhD

Shannon is a T32 postdoc scholar studying paracrine signaling in islet cells.

Postdoc

shannont@wustl.edu

Shannon Townsend, PhD

Samantha Adamson, MD PhD

Xinhang is an engineer-turned biologist who really wants to see what dynein looks like.

Masters & Postbacc Student

d.xinhang@wustl.edu

Xinhang Dong

Bella Melena

Samantha is opening her own lab at WashU in 2025 to study the regulation of beta cell calcium signaling.

Bella is an MSTP student who wants to understand how GLP-1 works in beta cells.

MSTP Student

i.l.melena@wustl.edu

sadamson@wustl.edu

Instructor

Lab Alumni

Lifei was a postdoctoral fellow from 2020-2022. She is currently a resident in Radiation Oncology at Montefiore/Albert Einstein.

Resident, Rad Onc, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

lifeizhu@wustl.edu

Lifei Zhu, MD PhD

Eun Young Lee, MD PhD

Eun Young was a visiting scholar from 2021-2023. She returned to South Korea to do clinical and stem cell diabetes research.

Associate Professor, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul St Mary's Hospital

leyme@catholic.ac.kr

Henry was our undergraduate student from 2019-2021. He is now a 3rd year MD-PhD student at UT Southwestern in the Mishra Lab.

MSTP, UT Southwestern Medical School

henry.roseman@utsouthwestern.edu

jing.hughes@wustl.edu

Henry Roseman

Alex Li

Alex was our undergraduate and gap-year student from 2019-2023. He is now a 2nd year MD-PhD student at WashU.

MSTP, Washington University

alex.li@wustl.edu

Hannah Conway

Hannah was our research assistant from 2019-2020. She helped build our lab from the start and is now working independently.

conway@luc.edu

Software Engineer

We are so proud of where everyone has gone

Rotation & summer students

Jon Beirne, rotation student (Aug-Nov 2023) - currently PhD candidate in Sergej Djuranovic Lab, WashU Cell Biology & Physiology

Michelle Phan, rotation student (Jan-Apr 2024) - currently PhD candidate in Fumi Urano Lab, WashU Endocrinology

Harshita Jain, MD, NIDDK summer student (May-Aug 2019) - currently Internal Medicine Resident, Emory University

Taylor Gemperline, MD, NIDDK summer student (Jun-Aug 2018) - currently Ophthalmology Resident, University of Virginia

Angie Zhang, high school student (May-Aug 2024) - undergraduate, Cornell University

Contact Us

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