Principle Investigator
Hong Ji, hgji@ucdavis.edu (faculty profile)
Education and Training
- 2002, BS, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- 2007, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
- 2011, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Academic Positions
- 2011-2017, Assistant professor, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
- 2017-2018, Associate professor, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
- 2018-2022, Assistant professor, Tenure track, University of California, Davis, CA
- 2022-, Tenured Associate professor, University of California, Davis, CA
Lab Members
Anthony Brown, Bioinformatic programmer
Sweeney Elston, Senior research associate
Stephanie Henson, Graduate student
Mahed Islam, Lab assistant II
Evan Holmes, Graduate student
Lab alumni
Even Chen, Student assistant
Steven Palomares-Mymala, Junior specialist
Jiayi (Jacie) Cheng, Undergraduate researcher
Ritz Harley Tolentino, Undergraduate researcher
Sukanya Chandrasekaran, Undergraduate researcher
Tao Zhu, Postdoc researcher
Lucy Cai, Senior Research Associate, still works at UC Davis!
Chi Pham, Junior specialist, applying for medical school
Megan Phan, undergraduate researcher
Alexandra Piliotis, undergraduate researcher, currently in a Biotechnology master’s program at San Jose State University.
Rotation students:
- 2022: Jacky Kwok (IGG), Ellie Coale (IGG), Hadley Osman (GGI)
- 2021: Kelly Chau (IGG)
- 2020: Jasmine Esparza (BMCDB), Max Shin (BMCDB), Keegan Malany (PTX)
- 2019: Morgan Domanico (PTX), Julia Mouat (IGG)
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center:
- Ashley Ulm, Research Assistant II/III, 2011-2015; Instructional Designer, University of New England
- Hari Somineni, Research Assistant III, 2013-2015; PhD at Emory University (2015-2019); Statistical Geneticist.
- Veda Yadagiri, Research Assistant III, 2015-2017
- JD Burleson, Research Assistant II/III, 2015-2018
- Dylan Siniard, Research Assistant III, 2017-2018
- Summer students, including medical students, undergraduate and high school students: Elizabeth Harruff, Noelle Jurcak, Avery Sampson, Evan Baker
