People

Current Members of the Yan Laboratory

 

 

Qin Yan, PhD, PI, email: qin.yan@yale.edu

 

 

 

Lauren Blair, PhD, postdoctoral associate, email: lauren.blair@yale.edu

PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, with Dr. Kevin Raney
Joined the Yan lab in February 2009
Research interests: epigenetics, basic mechanisms of cancer, mass spectrometry and RNA processing.

 

Jian Cao, PhD, postdoctoral associate, email: jian.cao@yale.edu

PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with Dr. Bao-Liang Song
Joined the Yan lab in July 2009
Research interests: tumor metastasis and drug resistance.

Mike Zou, graduate student, email: ran.zou@yale.edu

BS in Chemical Biology from University of California, Berkeley. 
Joined the Yan lab in July 2009
Research interests: JARID1B in mammary gland development and breast cancer.

 

Joyce Sayegh, PhD, postdoctoral associate, email: joyce.sayegh@yale.edu

PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UCLA, with Dr. Steve Clarke
Joined the Yan lab in August 2010.
Research interest: biochemical characterization of the JARID1 family of histone lysine demethylases in the context of cancer based research.

 

Zongzhi Liu, PhD, associate research scientist, email: zongzhi.liu@yale.edu

PhD in Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with Dr. Rong-Xiang Fang
Joined the Yan lab in March 2011
Research interests: RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, and microarray.

 

 

Ramon Lorenzo Labitigan, undergraduate student, email: ramonlorenzo.labitigan@yale.edu

joined the Yan lab in May 2010

 

 

 

 

Lab Alumni

  • Caleb Fischer, rotation student, 2010, currently graduate student at Yale University
  • Abigail Leinroth, Yale Discovery to Cure program student, 2011, currently high school student at Darien High School.
  • Amber Anders, Yale BIOSTEP program student, 2009, currently undergraduate student at Washington University
  • Christine Phan, Yale Discovery to Cure program student, 2009, currently undergraduate student at Brandeis University