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Sofia Ievleva joined our labs as a VAIGS student in June 2022. She is the third PhD student in our labs. Welcome, Sofia!

Welcome back, Nisha Rajakrishna! She will be doing her second internship in our labs this summer before applying to medical school.

Congratulations to Emery Haley, who successfully defended their doctoral dissertation on May 13, 2022!

Thanks to the defense committee including Drs. Wei Lü, Andrew Pospisilik, and Huilin Li (as VAI faculty), Dr. Zhaozhu Qiu (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine), and Dr. Vera Moiseenkova-Bell (from University of Pennsylvania). 

Emery’s last day in our labs was July 1, 2022. We wish them all the best!

Xinyu Ye will soon join the Van Andel Institute Graduate School, so we are fortunate to have Garrett O’Dea and Chase Benasco join our labs as assistant research technicians in May 2022. After a short stay, Chase decided to join Spectrum Health to gain some clinical experience, as he felt that an MD would be a better fit for him.

We are thrilled to welcome new lab members!

• Jinhong Hu from the University of British Columbia joined our labs as a postdoctoral fellow in May 2022.
• Tao Wan from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln joined our lab as a research scientist in June 2022.

Will the coronavirus pandemic ever end? Who knows, but some members left the labs during the pandemic and we wish them a bright future!

• Simon Vu went to Emerald Cloud Lab (October 2021).
• Tyler Walter joined Zoetis (October 2021).
• Ashlyn Skidmore left the lab in May 2022.

We are excited to welcome Fei Jin to our labs as a postdoctoral fellow!

Zheng, Emery and Ian’s TRPM5 story is published today in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.

Nisha is an undergraduate student at the University of Arizona and is interning in our labs this summer.

We welcome Ashlyn Skidmore to join our lab as an Assistant Research Technician!