Computational Spatial and Single-Cell Multi-Omics
My research group is innovating analytical and experimental workflows of transcriptomic and chromatin analyses in single cells and within spatial contexts of the tissue, to dissect the intricate relationships between genes, cells and tissues.
Our research group mainly follows three directions:
Cross-tissue bulk RNA-seq study of organogenesis; Rest/NRSF regulated H3K27me3 de-repression; House-keeping gene transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation; scRNA-seq of mouse limb development; Gene regulatory network inference from multi-omic sequencing data. GitHub
Comprehensive map of 144 human fetal lung cell populations; scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq; Proximal and distal niches with distinct fibroblasts; Organoid gain-of-function screen; Novel NEUROD1+ GHRL+ neuroendocrine lineage that mirrors Type-N small cell lung cancer. GitHub
Spatiotemporal mapping of human limb development using scRNA-seq and Visium; Whole-tissue atlasing; Mice and humans integrated cell atlas; Spatial axies regulators; digit regulators. GitHub
Temporal single-cell mapping of immune cells in the lung; scBCR/abTCR/gdTCR-seq and lymphoid lineage inference; B-1 cells and myeloids in the lung; Myeloid-epithelial interaction via IL1ß and IL13; Organoid scRNA-seq after cytokine induction. GitHub
Tissue Type | Fetal lung | Fetal lung | Lung organoid | Lung organoid | Lung organoid | Lung organoid | Embryonic Limb | Embryonic Limb |
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Specific tissue type | Human fetal lung | Human fetal lung immune | Human TF OE tip organoid | Human IL1B IL13 tip organoid | Human fetal lung late tip organoid | Human fetal lung AT2 organoid | Human embryonic limb | Mouse embryonic limb |
Study | 2022 Cell | 2023 Sci. Immunol. | 2022 Cell | 2023 Sci. Immunol. | 2023 Cell Stem Cell | 2025 EMBOJ | 2023 Nature | 2020 Nature,2023 Nature |
scRNA-seq | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
scATAC-seq | ✅ | |||||||
abTCR scRNA-seq | ✅ | ✅ | ||||||
gdTCR scRNA-seq | ✅ | ✅ | ||||||
BCR scRNA-seq | ✅ | ✅ | ||||||
scCITE-seq | ✅ | |||||||
Visium | ✅ | ✅ | ||||||
Xenium | ✅ |
Affiliate Assistant Professor
UCLA (PhD, MSc)
Jinan U (BEng)
Postdoctoral Researcher
Queen Mary (PhD)
U of Athens (MD)
Oxford (MSc)
Postdoctoral Researcher
Columbia (PhD)
Fudan (MSc, BSc)
PhD Student
Harvard (MSc)
UCSD (BSc)
Co-advised with Dr. Theodoris
Facility Manager
Managing laboratory infrastructure and resources
Administrative Assistant
Managing administrative operations
Master Student
Imperial College London
CUHK-Shenzhen (BSc)
Co-advised with Dr. Zhao
Master Student
University of Minnesota Twin Cities (BSc)
Master Student
San Jose State University (BSc)
Undergraduate Student
UC Berkeley
Undergraduate Student
UC Berkeley Exchange Student
Yonsei University
Undergraduate Student
UC Berkeley
Undergraduate Student
UC Berkeley
Undergraduate Student
UC Berkeley
Illustrator
Name | Previous Role | Institution | Current Position |
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Won Jun Kim | Undergraduate Research Assistant | Caltech | MD-PhD student at Tri-I |
John Lawrence | Clinical PhD Student | Sanger | PhD student at Sanger |
Hanchen Wang | PhD Student | Cambridge | Postdoc at Genentech with Aviv Regev |
Simon Murray | Bioinformatics Apprentice | Sanger | Bioinformatics Apprentice at Sanger |
Austin Reed | Research Assistant | CRUK | PhD student at CRUK |
Dan Zhang | Remote Visitor | Visiting student at Sanger | |
Weimin Lin | Remote Visitor | Visiting student at Cambridge | |
Sid Mahesh | BMI student (thesis committee) | UCSF | |
Wanjun Gu | BMI student (thesis committee) | UCSF | |
Sara Smith | BMI student (thesis committee and QBC journal club) | UCSF | |
Jerry Wang | BMS student (thesis committee) | UCSF | |
Madison Lotstein | BMS student (thesis committee) | UCSF |
We are currently seeking enthusiastic researchers at any levels especially:
• Graduate Students (through BMS and BMI programs)
• Undergraduate Students (via the Berkeley URAP)
If you're interested in joining our team, please reach out!