Current Lab Members

Shihuan Kuang
research

skeletal muscle & adipose stem cells

Shihuan Kuang
Principal Investigator
Haoyuan Zhang
research

muscle stem cells

Haoyuan Zhang
Postdoctoral Associate
Shanlong Tang
research

muscle & fat metabolism

Shanlong Tang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ziyue Qin
research

brown fat

Ziyue Qin
Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar
Jiamin Qiu
research

brown adipocyte, mitochondria function

Jiamin Qiu
Ph.D. Student
Jingjuan Chen
research

muscle regeneration, mitochondria function

Jingjuan (Candice) Chen
Ph.D. Student
Menchus Quan
research

liposarcoma, exosomes

Menchus Quan
Ph.D. Student
MadiganStrange
research

muscle regeneration, brown fat

Madigan Strange
Ph.D. Student
Xiyue Chen
research

adipost tissue, metabolism

Xiyue (Cici) Chen
Ph.D. Student
Muhammad Asif
research

muscle regeneration

Muhammad Asif
Ph.D. Student
Xuyao Zhao
research

notch signaling in liposarcoma

Xuyao (Yvonne) Zhao
Ph.D. Student
Haowei Xu
research

stem cells

Haowei Xu
Ph.D. Student
Mennatallah Kedr
research

stem cells

Mennatallah Khedr
Ph.D. Student
Sara Scinto
research

lipid droplets

Sara Scinto
M.Sc. Student
Charlie Thrift
research

Charlie Thrift
Biology Undergraduate
Madeline Kay
research

Madeline Kay
Biology Undergraduate
Kashyap Akkinapally
research

Kashyap Akkinapally
Engineering Undergraduate
Eric Sallaste
research

Eric Sallaste
Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate
Victor Le
research

Victor Le
Biology Undergraduate
Bronson Vann
research

Bronson Vann
Biology Undergraduate
Lidya Yoseph
research

Lidya Yoseph
Health & Human Sciences Undergraduate
Emily Grace Andrews
research

Emily Grace Andrews
Agricultural Engineering Undergraduate

Past Lab Members

Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates

• Jolena Waddell 08/2008 – 07/2010 Currently Professor and Associate Provost of student academic success & achievement, Tarleton State University, TX
• Yefei Wen 09/2008 – 09/2011 Currently Research Assistant Professor at University of Houston
• Peijing Zhang 05/2010 – 04/2011 Currently Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
• Weiyi Liu 07/2010 – 12/2012 Currently Senior Scientist at Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd
• Tizhong Shan 08/2011 – 08/2015 Currently Professor at College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, China
• Jinghua Wang 08/2012 – 07/2013 Currently Associate Professor at Harbin Medical University, China
• Zuojun Liu 08/2012 – 07/2014 Currently Professor at Hainan University, China
• Yaohui Nie 11/2013 – 08/2017 Currently Senior Scientist at Forkhead BioTherapeutics
• Beatriz Castro 01/2016 – 05/2018 Currently faculty member at Purdue University Department of Biology
• Tongxin Song 08/2018 – 07/2019 Currently Assistant Professor at Huazhong Agriculture University, Wuhan, China
• Di Huang 10/2018 – 04/2020 Currently Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University
• Feng Yue 11/2013 – 08/2021 Currently Assistant Professor at University of Florida
• Zhihao Jia 06/2018 – 09/2021 Currently Associate Professor at Soochow University

Ph.D. Trainees

• Pengpeng Bi 08/2010 - 04/2015 Currently Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia
• Chunhui Jiang 08/2010 - 12/2014 Currently Assistant Professor at Harbin Medical University, China
• Chao Wang 05/2012 - 12/2017 Currently Scientist at Altos Labs
• Pengpeng Zhang 10/2012 - 10/2014 Currently Associate Professor at Xinyang Normal University, China
• Yan Xiong 10/2014 – 02/2017 Currently Associate Professor at Southwest Minzu University, China
• Xiaohong Huang 08/2014 – 07/2018 Currently Postdoctoral fellow at Qingdao University
• Yifan Kong 08/2015 – 05/2020 Currently Postdoctoral fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Yinsheng Zhang 07/2016 – 05/2020
• Fengyi Mao 08/2016 – 12/2020 Currently Postdoctoral fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Stephanie Oprescu 08/2017 – 03/2023 Currently Postdoctoral fellow at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
• Lijie Gu 09/2017 – 08/2020 Currently Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center
• Ying Peng 10/2017 – 05/2020 Currently Postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua University
• Changyou Song 10/2017 – 06/2019 Currently research scientist at Wuxi Fisheries Research Center
• Pei-Chieh (Patrick) Tien 12/2017 – 12/2023 Currently Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School
• Kun Ho Kim 8/2018 – 08/2023 Currently Postdoctoral fellow at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Kuilong Huang 10/2018 – 12/2019 Currently a faculty member at Chongqing University of Technology
• Nanjian Luo 10/2018 – 11/2020 Currently a faculty member at Zunyi Medical College
• H.S. Regina Nam 10/2019 – 12/2021 Currently PhD student at Purdue University
• Lijia Zhang 12/2019 – 08/2023 Subsequently a graduate student at Purdue University

Master of Sciences Students

• Alison Angione 08/2008 – 05/2011 Currently Associate Scientist III at Eurofins Panlabs, Inc.
• Yaqin Liu 01/2009 – 05/2011 Currently Scientist at Quaerolife Co. China
• Min Wang 08/2009 – 05/2012 Currently Medical Practitioner in New York
• Qiaojing Wang 01/2010 – 10/2012
• Xin (Cindy) Yang 08/2012 – 12/2014 Subsequently a research assistant at City of Hope National Medical Center, CA
• Shiqi Yang 08/2014 – 12/2016

Undergraduate Students

• Brad Reinholt 08/2008 – 12/2009 Subsequently a Ph. D. student at Virginia Tech
• Whitney Pavalko 08/2009 – 05/2011 Subsequently a Ph. D. student at Purdue University
• Jian Luo 08/2009 – 05/2010 Subsequently a Doctor of Vetinary Medicine student at Purdue University
• Xin Yang 01/2011 – 05/2012 Subsequently a Master of Sciences student at Purdue University
• Kazuki Kubota 08/2011 – 05/2012
• Beth Boller 08/2012 – 12/2012
• Michael Kuhn 08/2013 – 12/2013 Subsequently a Ph. D. student at Purdue University
• Sirada Sasitorn 01/2014 – 05/2014
• Sarah Littell 01/2014 – 05/2014
• Amber Shukwit 07/2014 – 08/2014
• Edgar Colon 06/2015 – 08/2015 Subsequently a Ph. D. student at Yale University
• Zulaida Vargas 06/2015 – 08/2015 Subsequently a Ph. D. student at Purdue University
• Yiyi Gan 06/2015 – 05/2016 Subsequently a graduate student at the University of Cambridge
• Hannah Horton 01/2016 – 05/2017 Subsequently a graduate student at Northwestern University
• Kevin Lee 01/2018 – 05/2019 Currently at Dentistry School in California (DDS student)
• J. Jordan Lowe 01/2018 – 05/2019
• Xuxi (Sissie) Li 01/2019 – 05/2019
• Michael Fiore 01/2020 – 12/2021 Currently an MD student at Central Michigan University
• Richa Kulkarni 01/2021 – 05/2021
• Nick Baumann 01/2020 – 05/2022
• Maddie Sheiss 08/2020 – 05/2022
• Elizabeth Nelson 08/2021 – 05/2022
• Anna Remes 02/2021 – 05/2022
• Madilyn Reid 08/2021 – 05/2023 Currently a Ph. D. student at Purdue University
• Aran Kim 01/2022 – 05/2023
• Gabriella Gmyrek 01/2022 – 08/2022
• Meijin Pan 01/2022 – 05/2023 Currently a Ph. D. student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Shivani Naayak 08/2022 – 05/2023

Visiting Scholars

• Fei Xu 10/2010 – 01/2011 Currently Associate Professor at Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Xinsheng Lai 03/2011 - 09/2011 Currently Assistant Professor at Capital Medical University, China
• Xinrong Liang 04/2012 – 06/2013 Visiting Scholar
• Yong Cai 10/2012 – 10/2013 Currently Professor at Ningxia Agriculture University
• Xihong Zhou 07/2013 - 09/2013 Currently Scientist at Institute of Subtropical Agriculture Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Xine Shi 12/2013 - 12/2014 Currently Professor at Northwest A&F University, China
• Qingyang Jiang 07/2015 - 07/2017 Currently Professor, Quangxi University, China
• Jie Zhu 01/2015 - 01/2017 Currently Professor at Northwest A&F University, China
• Yusuke Sato 03/2015 – 02/2016 Currently Associate Professor, Utsunomiya University, Japan
• Xuejun Chen 07/2017 - 07/2018 Currently Professor, Huangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang, China
• Yingying Liu 08/2017 - 08/2018 Currently Scientist, Hunan Institute of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, China
• Wei Xia 12/2017 - 12/2019 Currently Associate Professor, Hebei Agricultural University, China
• Zhengrong Yuan 11/2018 - 12/2019 Currently Associate Professor, Beijing Forestry University, China
• Lin Zhang 11/2018 - 11/2019 Currently Professor, Nanjing Agriculture University, China

Visiting Students

• Haide Chen 07/2010 – 08/2010 Summer Exchange Student, Zhejiang University, China
• Xudong Hu 07/2011 – 08/2011 Summer Exchange Student, Zhejiang University, China
• Xinyuan Xu 08/2012 – 12/2013 Visiting Ph.D. student by China Scholarship Council
• Yanqing Zhu 07/2014 - 08/2014 Summer Exchange Student, Zhejiang University, China
• Chengyang Lin 07/2019 - 08/2019 Summer Exchange Student, Zhejiang University, China
• Juan Pablo Ruiz Soto 02/2023 – 07/2023Exchange Student