Jianjian received her undergraduate education at University of Science and Technology of China and subsequently earned her Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Yale University.

I am a computational cancer biologist and current postdoctoral researcher in the Mani Lab at Brown University. I trained at the University of Tokyo and NCC-Japan, supported by JSPS and WINGS-GSDM fellowships, and later joined the University of Pennsylvania as a visiting Ph.D. researcher. My research focuses on decoding how tumors evolve under selective pressures—leveraging single-cell and spatial multi-omics to map cellular states, interactions, and adaptive trajectories, and to identify principles that may guide more effective therapeutic strategies.

Yirui received her bachelor's degree in Bioengineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and subsequently earned her Ph.D. in Biology from University of Pennsylvania.

I completed my bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at ETH Zurich. After graduating, I joined UBS Switzerland, gaining experience in both Investment Banking and Wealth Management.

I finished my college at Sun Yat-Sen University, and my master’s degree at Pennsylvania State University. Upon graduation, I gained further scientific training at Harvard Medical School, and I am currently a PhD student at Indiana University, School of Medicine. My research focuses on the metabolic regulation in cancer cells, utilizing both mammalian cell culture and Drosophila melanogaster systems. [email protected]

Yunqing is currently a PhD candidate in Bioengineering at Caltech. Her research focuses on synthetic biology in plants, with an emphasis on genome engineering tool development and the design of sensor plants for the rhizosphere. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Xinyu is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School, where his work focuses on using AI and genomics tools to study cell fate regulation mechanisms and engineered interventions.

PhD candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, with research focused on cancer immunology, nuclear receptor signaling, and neutrophil biology.

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology PhD at Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Science

Wenbo is a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, co-advised by Prof. Jia Liu and Prof. Xiao Wang. His research lies at the intersection of bioelectronics, regenerative biology, in situ omics, and agentic AI. He aims to develop technologies and algorithms that link molecular and functional features across space and time, integrate large-scale multimodal data, and enable AI-driven, autonomous, and reproducible generation of biological discoveries.

Kexin is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where her work focuses on the development of advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques to investigate human physiology and brain metabolism. She earned her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and her bachelor’s degree in Physics from Fudan University.

Yang has spent most of her time in Baltimore since moving to the U.S. She is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where she develops epigenetic detection platforms for early-stage cancer diagnosis using liquid biopsy samples. Though living in the U.S. on her own, Yang is never truly alone - her two adorable cats keep her company! In her free time, she enjoys traveling, baking, makeup, snowboarding, and playing badminton.

Zoe Zhao is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology (MCIP) program at UCLA. Her research focuses on using single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to investigate the mechanisms underlying sex differences in metabolic diseases.

Yunfan is currently a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at UCLA. She earned her bachelor’s degree in biotechnology and food engineering at Technion in 2022 and her master's degree in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 2024.

Xinyi, a postgraduate student majoring in Journalism and Communication at Lanzhou University. Research: public communication, especially museum communication and cultural communication. Keen on exploring communication strategies and promotion practices via social media platforms such as TikTok. Interested in photography and documenting cultural content in daily life.

Graduate of the Communication University of China, specialized in content planning and marketing. Gained operational planning experience at Mars, Maoyan, etc., and endeavors to disseminate knowledge to more people through professional capabilities.

Xiaoyi is pursuing a degree in communication and data science at the University of Southern California. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Duke Kunshan University and Duke University.

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