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.

Twitter @xinjin | CV

  • Abdullah Ashiq

    UCSD Ledell Family Research Scholar

  • Amber Selstad

    UCSD Intern

  • Boli Wu

    Mark Pearson Endowed Graduate Fellow

  • Cassie White

    Skaggs-Oxford Graduate Fellow

  • Chloe Samouhi

    UCSD Intern

  • Coco Yu

    UCSD Intern

  • Ellie Petty

    Joint Student (Lairson Lab, Chemistry)

  • Grace Clarke

    Research Technician

  • Graham Anderson

    Research Technician

  • Isha Desai

    UCSD TRELS Intern

  • Jill Liu

    Graduate Student

  • Jiwen Li, Ph.D.

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Kayla Nestor

    Senior Administrative Coordinator Extraordinaire

  • Patrick Thompson

    Dorris Graduate Scholar

  • Xinhe Zheng

    Frank J. Dixon Graduate Scholar

  • Zhilin Wang, Ph.D.

    CIRM Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Dr. Billy

    Honorary Lab Member

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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