Current Lab Members
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Principle Investigator
Liang Shan, PhD
Office: BJCIH 7605
Tel: 314-747-0050
Email: liang.shan@wustl.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Pathology and Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral and Clinical Fellows
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Qiankun Wang, PhD
Postdoc fellow
Department of Medicine
Email: qiankun.wang@wustl.edu
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Hongbo Gao, PhD
Postdoc fellow
Department of Medicine
Email: hongbo.gao@wustl.edu
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Shuai Gao, PhD
Postdoc fellow
Department of Medicine
Email: gaos@wustl.edu
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Priya Pal, MD, PhD
Clinical fellow, Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
Email: priyapal@wustl.edu
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Marilia Pinzone, MD
Clinical fellow, Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
Email: marilia@wustl.edu
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Ritudhwaj Tiwari, PhD
Postdoc fellow
Department of Medicine
Email: rtiwari@wustl.edu
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Xiwen Qin, PhD
Postdoc fellow
Department of Medicine
Email: qinx@wustl.edu
Graduate Students
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Kolin Clark, MS
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Email: kolin.clark@wustl.edu
Research Technicians
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Toni Sherlinski
Department of Medicine
Email: toni.sherlinski@wustl.edu
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Elizabeth Denn
Department of Medicine
Email: denn@wustl.edu
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Bioinformatician
Sara Nicholson
Department of Medicine
Email: saran@wustl.edu
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Undergraduate student
Hilary Weisburd
Washington University in St. Louis
Email: h.s.weisburd@wustl.edu
Lab Alumni
- Gray Harlan (2017-2019) Research technician
- Yuhao Li (2017-2019) Postdoctoral fellow
- Ayse Ozanturk (2017-2021) Graduate student
- Alison Chang (2018) Summer research assistant
- Irene Zhou (2019) Summer research assistant
- Rocky Giwa (2020) WashU DBBS Rotation student
- Josh Kim (2020-2023) Research technician