Trainers Directory

My research focuses on structural and function of gasdermin family members in pyroptosis and inflammatory cytokine secretion, Molecular mechanisms of inflammasome activation during viral infection such as SARS-CoV-2, and Activation and substrate recognition by inflammatory caspases in health and disease. 

Tasn Sam Xiao's Biography 

We are interested in using high-resolution microscopy and high-throughput genomics to understand genome regulation in human development and diseases.

Liangqi Xie's Biography 

I study molecular mechanisms underlying neural development, neuro-degeneration, and bone homeostasis.

Wen-Cheng Xiong's Biography 

We are interested in developing innovative artificial intelligence, natural language processing, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, graph theory, systems biology, knowledge representation and engineering, ontology and other computational algorithms to automatically understand genetic causes of diseases, identify candidate drugs/compounds to treat diseases, elucidate how environmental factors contribute to diseases, and conduct health outcomes research.

Rong Xu's Biography

My research is in estrogen receptor biophysics, cancer biology, and drug discovery.

Sichun Yang's Biography 

I research the determination of protein molecular structure using X-ray diffraction and correlation with function. 

Vivien C. Yee's Biography 

Our lab focuses on understanding the cellular and transcriptional mechanisms regulating myelination and the extra cellular matrix during development and their role in disease and injury. 

Our long-term research goals are to 1) investigate the molecular mechanisms of chronic inflammation in obesity-related metabolic diseases and 2) identify new dietary interventions or molecular therapeutics to suppress such chronic inflammation. We are particularly interested in the contribution of the NLRP3 inflammasome and extracellular vesicles to chronic inflammation. We also actively work on dietary vesicle-like nanoparticles and their anti-inflammatory functions in the context of obesity-related diseases.  

Jiujiu Yu's Biography 

I investigate the structural biology of multidrug resistance trasnporters and bacterial metabolite transporters. 

Edward Yu's Biography

I focus primarily on molecular mechanisms driving glioblastoma cancer initiation and progression.

Jennifer Yu's Biography