Meet the Team
Lab Retreat 2024 in Santa Ysabel Valley, CA
Xin Jin, Ph.D.
Principal investigator
Xin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and a member of the Dorris Neuroscience Center at Scripps Research. She received her B.Sc. in Chemistry from MIT and her Ph.D. in Biology from The Rockefeller University working in the Laboratory of Cori Bargmann. As a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, she worked with Feng Zhang, Paola Arlotta and Aviv Regev to develop and apply in vivo genetic screening tools to study brain development. She is the recipient of the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award, G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation Award, Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Young Investigator Award, Larry L. Hillblom Foundation Award, Early Career Investigator Award from the International Society of Autism Research, Allison Doupe Fellowship from the McKnight Endowment Fund, and was named as one of the ‘35 Innovators Under 35’ by MIT Tech Review in 2022.
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Abdullah Ashiq
UCSD Ledell Family Research Scholar
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Amber Selstad
UCSD Intern
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Boli Wu
Mark Pearson Endowed Graduate Fellow
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Cassie White
Skaggs-Oxford Graduate Fellow
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Chloe Samouhi
UCSD Intern
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Coco Yu
UCSD Intern
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Ellie Petty
Joint Student (Lairson Lab, Chemistry)
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Grace Clarke
Research Technician
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Graham Anderson
Research Technician
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Isha Desai
UCSD TRELS Intern
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Jill Liu
Graduate Student
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Jiwen Li, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Kayla Nestor
Senior Administrative Coordinator Extraordinaire
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Patrick Thompson
Dorris Graduate Scholar
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Xinhe Zheng
Frank J. Dixon Graduate Scholar
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Zhilin Wang, Ph.D.
CIRM Postdoctoral Fellow
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Dr. Billy
Honorary Lab Member
Lab Alum, we miss you!
Research Technicians
Kristina Ivanov 2021-22
Bioinformatics Master’s Student at NYU
Undergraduates
Josh Park 2020-23
Catherine Kuo 2023
Anjali Srinivasan 2021-22
Rebecca Gin 2021-22
Biological and Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Program, Harvard University
UCSD Graduate
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Ph.D. Program, UCSD
UCSD undergrad student