Jiao Lab

Welcome Yan He, who has joined the lab as a Research Fellow! Yan completed her PhD at Westlake University, where she developed non-canonical base editors using protein language models for precision therapeutics.

Welcome Kaining He, who has joined the lab as a Visiting Scholar! Kaining completed her PhD at the University of Science and Technology of China, where she studied tough polyampholyte (PA) and living mycelium-based hydrogels.

Welcome Xinjuan Shao, who has joined the lab as a Visiting PhD Student! Xinjuan is pursuing her PhD at Hunan University, where she is engineering the Cas7-11 system for biosensing and cell-fate control.

Welcome Xiaoyang Qi, who has joined the lab as a PhD student! Xiaoyang completed her Master's research at NUS, where she investigated the mechanisms underlying drug-tolerant persister cells in acute myeloid leukemia.

Welcome four new Master's students, Ziyu Guo, Sunxiang Zhang, Yan Lin, and Jiayu Xie, who have joined the lab for their Capstone projects.

Welcome Mellisa Ng and Jia Wen Yuan, who have joined the lab for their UROPS and FYP projects.

Farewell to Angela Meng, a visiting intern from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Thank you for your valuable contributions to our HDR-based gene knock-in project! All the best in your future endeavours!

Farewell to Ziyi Wang, a visiting intern from Shanghai Jiao Tong University under the Summer Undergraduate Research Attachment Programme (URAPS)! Ziyi contributed to the development of a novel precision genome editor. All the best in your future endeavours!

Farewell to Weichen Lyu, who has completed his internship in the lab. Thank you for your valuable contributions to multiplex dry-lab analysis. All the best in your future endeavours!

Congrats to Chunlei on securing an MOE Tier 1 Grant for compact long-range genomic deletion!

Farewell to Minhao Zhang, who has completed his Master's Capstone project on optimizing HDR-based gene knock-in technology. Thank you for your valuable contributions! All the best in your future endeavours!

Welcome G A Prannavraj, who joins the lab as a Visiting Intern from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), India! Prannavraj combines computational biology and structural bioinformatics to mine new CRISPR systems. We are excited to have him on the team!

Farewell to Alicia Teo and Zhi Yi Tan, who have completed their FYP projects on developing tools to track mobile genetic elements in microbial communities and engineering a CRISPR system for precise RNA targeting. Thank you for your valuable contributions!

Congrats to Chunlei on securing his first MOE Tier 2 Grant for precise RNA targeting!

Welcome Meng Chen, who has joined the lab as a Research Fellow! Meng completed her PhD at Sun Yat-sen University, where she worked on biosensing and DNA/RNA imaging.

Farewell to Ailian Wu, Yifei Wu, and Xinyi Li. Thank you for your valuable contributions! All the best in your future endeavours!

Farewell to Yile Hao. Thank you for your valuable contributions! All the best in your future endeavours!

Farewell to Gravity Guignard, a visiting intern from the University of Toronto, Canada. Thank you for your valuable contributions! All the best in your future endeavours!

Farewell to Sarah Kono, a visiting intern from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, working on spatial RNA recording. Thank you for your valuable contributions! All the best in your future endeavours!

Congrats to Chunlei on securing an MOE Tier 1 Grant for defining the design rules of reprogrammed tracrRNAs!

Welcome Lehua Wang, who has joined the lab as a joint PhD student (co-trained with Dr. Min Luo). Lehua received his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Fudan University.

Welcome Ailian Wu, Yifei Wu, and Xinyi Li, who have joined the lab as Master's students, working on tools for molecular recording, multiplexed RNA detection, and precise RNA editing!

Welcome Yile Hao, who has joined the lab as a Research Assistant. Yile completed his Master's degree at Hubei University, where he developed Cas3-based large-scale genome deletion tools.

Welcome Wenjie Han and Shuanshuan Xu, who have joined the lab as Research Fellows! Wenjie completed his PhD at the University of Science and Technology of China, where he developed tools to enhance HDR-based knock-in and genome-wide off-target detection. Shuanshuan completed her PhD at the University of Copenhagen, where she investigated the mechanisms of anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins against type I-D CRISPR systems.

Welcome Bin Zhang and Ahmed Abogosh, who have joined the lab as PhD students! Bin completed his Master's degree at Nanjing University, studying immune dysfunction in sarcoidosis and the role of NOTCH4 mutations in EGFR-TKI resistance in lung adenocarcinoma. Ahmed completed his Master's degree at KAUST, where he developed multi-modular FRET biosensors for studying kinase enzyme kinetics and screening inhibitors.

Jiao Lab officially opens at the Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore! Chunlei is also jointly appointed at the Department of Biochemistry, SynCTI, and NCEB.

Congrats to Chunlei on receiving the NUS Presidential Young Professorship!