Year 2023
06/05/23, New postdoc Xiaoting Dong joined the lab. Welcome Xiaoting!
04/07/23, our undergrad, Francisco Narro Garcia, received offers from many medical schools this year. UTSW and Washington University School of Medicine even offered him a full scholarship. He can go to a top medical school for free. It is a rare honor for medical school applicants. Congratulations!
04/07/23, our undergrad, Bokai Zhang, accepted an offer from the Ph.D. program at Rockefeller University. Besides Rockefeller, Bokai also received offers from Harvard, UC Berkeley, UPenn, Vanderbilt, etc. Congratulations!
04/05/23, postdoc Xi Yang received a second offer for a tenure track assistant professor position from the medical school at UWV. Congratulations!
03/31/23, graduate student Peach Arines’ third first-author paper is submitted. 03/02/23, former graduate student Weichao Zhang received the 2022 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award. Only 10 Ph.D. students from the university are selected each year. Congratulations!
02/28/23, postdoc Xi Yang received an offer for a tenure track assistant professor position from Denver University. Congratulations!
02/13/23, Yunzhi Lin started rotation in the lab. Welcome!
Year 2022
11/01/22 Postdoc Danielle Henn joined the lab. Welcome!
10/20/22, Xi (postdoc) is selected to give a talk at the Protein Folding and Disease symposium. Congratulations!
10/17/22, The Ming Li lab had a blast at the annual MCDB Retreat by winning many awards! Vasha: Best afternoon talk and MCDB Teaching Award! Congratulations! Liang: Best poster award! Congratulations! Xi: Best morning talk! Congratulations!
10/12/22 Dr. Li gave a seminar at NIDDK. 09/15/22, we received an R01 from NICHD to study a new human lysosome storage disease.
09/15/22, our NICHD R01 started!
09/01/22, Visiting scholar Dr. YingYing Zhao joined the lab. 08/29/22, graduate student Weichao’s second paper was accepted by Nature Communications. Congratulations!
08/08/2022 Peach successfully defended her Ph.D. Congratulations! Peach is the second Ph.D. from the Ming Li lab.
07/19/22 Graduate student Varsha gave a talk at the Protein Processing and Trafficking Gordon Research Conference. Congratulations!
06/21/22 Dr. Li gave a talk at the Lysosome and Endocytosis Gordon Research Conference
05/14/22 Undergraduate student Bokai Zhang received an NIH summer supplement to do full-time research in the lab. Congratulations!
05/02/22 Undergraduate student Aleks Wielenga received a summer internship to do full-time research in the lab. Congratulations!
04/08/22 Graduate student Peach published a paper in STAR Protocols. Congratulations!
04/06/22 Postdoc Xi Yang received the ASBMB 2022 International Conference Tavel award. He will give a talk at the conference. Congratulations!
03/21/22 Graduate student Varsha is awarded a one-term MCDB research scholarship. Congratulations!
03/16/2022 Weichao Zhang successfully defended his Ph.D. Congratulations! Weichao is the very first Ph.D. from the Ming Li lab. 02/2022 We are awarded a MICHR research grant!
01/2022- Zhihao started his rotation in the lab
Year 2021
01/11/21 – Peach won the Best Poster at the MCDB Virtual Retreat
01/21 Peach and Aaron’s paper is officially published by the Journal of Cell Biology.
03/21 Peach is awarded the prestigious Barbour Scholarship. Congratulations!
04/21 Ever O’Donnell received a BlueRibbon for her excellent UROP research presentation. Congratulations!
04/21 – Linchen received the MCDB/Neuro. Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
04/21 Ever O’Donnell received the Horizon’s Scholarship. Congratulations!
04/21 Lucas graduated. Congratulations! Lucas will attend the graduate program at MSU.
05/21 Xi Yang’s third first-author manuscript is accepted by the Journal of Cell Biology. Lucas and Dom, two former undergrads of the lab, made equal contributions to the paper. Congratulations!
05/21 Yun-Yu Liu is accepted into the MD program at Albert Einstein School of Medicine
05/21 Bokai Zhang joined the lab as a volunteer. Welcome!
06/10/21 Liang Chen is awarded the Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant. Congratulation!
06/21/21 Lucas won the Highest Honor for his honors thesis. Congratulations!
07/09/21 Weichao‘s mammalian lysosome membrane degradation paper is accepted by PLOS Biology. Congratulations!
07/23/21 Weichao’s PLOS Biology paper is online!
08/30/21 Julianna started her rotation in the lab. Welcome!
09/21 We are awarded an NIH equipment supplement to purchase a microscope.
10/21 Seth Palmer and Grant Dominic joined the lab as UROP students. Welcome!
10/21 Our postdoc Xi Yang received the MCDB Postdoctoral Research Award.
The year 2020
01/03/20 Xi and Weichao’s paper was accepted by the Journal of Cell Biology. Congratulations! Xi and Weichao made an equal contribution to this paper.
01/19/20 Peach’s paper is submitted
02/17/20 Guangnan Shi, a visiting student from Groningen University, started in the lab. Welcome, Guangnan!
04/20 Aaron Hamlin, Yun-Yu Liu, and Dominic Chomai all graduated with high honors. Congratulations to them! All three students have published papers. Aaron will start graduate school at Princeton University. Dom will start graduate school at the University of Wisconsin. Yun-Yu will take a gap year to apply for medical schools(accepted into Albert Einstein). I am so proud of them!
04/20 Liang Chen joined the lab. Welcome, Liang!
03/20-06/20 lab closed due to COVID-19.
06/20 Varsha, Weichao, and Peach received the Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant. Congratulations!
11/20 Peach and Aaron’s paper accepted by the Journal of Cell Biology. Congratulations!
The year 2019
1/04/19 submitted a collaborative manuscript to JCB
2/21/19 Submitted our second independent manuscript
04/01/19 Yawen Wu started in the lab as a visiting graduate student
April 2019 Grace and Aditi graduated. Both headed to medical schools!
08/2019 Dr. Li gave a talk at the Gordon conference for Organelle Channels and Transporters
08/2019 Dr. Li gave a seminar at Cornell University. It feels good to return to gorgeous Ithaca.
08/2019 Dr. Li gave a seminar at the University of Denver.
09/02/19 JCB published our collaborative paper
09/2019 First R01 started
09/2019 Liang Chen started a rotation in my lab
09/27/19 Yawen is leaving our lab. She is fantastic! We wish you all the best!
10/14/19 MCDB Retreat. Peach won awards today: the best student presentation award and the GSI teaching award! Congratulations!
The year 2018:
1/1/18 2018 is going to be a great year. We will start publishing our own papers, recruiting new lab members, and receive grant support.
1/19/18, Our first paper was accepted by eLife! Big congratulations to the first author Dr. Xi Yang and co-authors Peach and Weichao! This paper was submitted on 11/10/17 and accepted on 1/19/18. We thank eLife for their strong support of junior investigators and high efficiency!
2/17/18, Grace was awarded the prestigious USAISR 2018 Summer Internship. It is a scholarship that allows undergraduate students to work with researchers at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research. Congratulations! You are one step closer to your medical school dream.
3/27/18, Dominic Chomchai joined the lab as an undergraduate volunteer. Welcome!
4/2/18, Yun-Yu, Aaron, and Aditi received the Program in Biology Fellowships for their summer research. Congratulations!
4/2/18, Dr. Li gave an invited seminar at the Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, SIBS, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
4/23/18, Varsha Venkatarangan started a rotation in the lab.
4/28/18, Patrick graduated. Congratulations! We are proud of you!
05/2018, Varsha joined the lab.
08/2018 Dr. Li gave a talk at the Gordon Conference for Protein processing, trafficking, and secretion
12/21/18 Received the first CRF grant! Our very first grant!
The year 2017:
3/6/17, Peach(Felichi Mae) Arines, started her rotation in the lab. Welcome, Peach!
3/16/17, Aaron received the Biomedical and Life Science Fellowship from the UROP program. Congratulations!
3/23/17, Patrick Bulinski, an undergraduate student, started volunteering in the lab. Welcome, Patrick!
3/27/17, Xi Yang, our very first postdoc, joined the lab! Welcome, Xi!
4/4/17, Both Grace and Aditi received the MCDB Summer Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
4/18/17, Weichao Zhang started a rotation in the lab. Welcome, Weichao!
4/24/17, Peach joined the lab. She is our very first graduate student!!!
5/8/17, Yun-Yu received an MCDB undergraduate research fellowship. Congratulations!
5/17/17, Both Peach and Weichao passed the checkpoint #1 exam with excellent scores. Congratulations!
6/15/17, Weichao officially joined the lab. Our second graduate student!!!
9/19/17, Both Peach and Weichao received the Rackham Graduate Student Research Grants. Congratulations!
10/4/17, Lucas Reist joined the lab as a UROP student. Welcome!
The year 2016:
09/01/16, Ming Li lab started its journey!
09/12/16, Yan Zhu, the first rotation student joined the lab! Welcome, Yan!
09/20/16, Aditi Kappagantu, the first work-study student joined the lab! Welcome, Aditi!
09/26/16, Yan successfully knocked out two yeast genes. First-ever in Li lab! Check out Yan smiling at his plate in the lab member picture.
09/27/16, Grace Chu, a second work-study student joined the lab! Welcome, Grace!
10/10/16, Yun-Yu Liu, the first UROP student joined the lab! Welcome, Yun-Yu!
10/11/16, Aaron Hamlin, the second UROP student joined the lab! Welcome, Aaron!