Team
Ruben Dries
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Jiaji (George) Chen
Graduate Student
Yibing Michelle Wei
Graduate Student
Wonyl Choi
Graduate Student
Avnish Jadhav
Data Scientist
Veronica Jarzabek
Bioinformatician
Eddie Ruiz
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jeffrey Sheridan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Undergraduate Students
Jueshan (Shan) Ji
Undergraduate Student
Timur Rizvanov
Undergraduate Student
Collaborators
Software & spatial methodology:
- Giotto Suite development:
- Spatial statistics & ML:
- Spatial Genomics:
Oncology:
- Breast cancer research:
- Osteosarcoma research:
- Neuroendrocrine tumor research:
Development biology:
- Lung & Megakaryocyte research:
- Fetal liver development:
Lab Alumni
Junxiang Xu (Graduate Student 2022-2026) — now Research Assistant in China
Anirudh Jaishankar (Bioinformatics Intern 2025-2026) — now in the Bioinformatics program at Iowa State University
Shaotai Hu (Undergraduate Student 2025-2026)
Quynh Sun (Lab Manager 2024-2025)
Anuradha Basyal (Graduate Student Intern 2024-2024)
Sanjana Hasyagar (Graduate Student Intern 2024-2024)
Jueshan Ji (Undergraduate Student 2024-2025)
Jayden Raphino (Undergraduate Student 2023-2024)
Niyana Self (Undergraduate Student 2022-2024)
Munawwar Abdulla (Lab Coordinator 2024-2025)
Iqra Amin (Bioinformatician 2023-2024)
Thea Nalan (Research Assistant 2022-2024)
Christina Ennis (Graduate Student 2022-2023)
Jason Weis (Graduate Student 2022-2023)
Jahlisse Bruton (Lab Manager 2023-2024)
Matthew O’Brien (Bioinformatician 2022-2023)
Kriya Patel (UROP Undergraduate Student 2022-2023)
Amelia Zug (BRITE REU Scholar Summer 2023)
Osa Imafidon (Lab Manager 2022-2023)
Sophia Murray (UROP Undergraduate Student 2022-2023)
Emma Kelley (Lab Manager and Research Associate 2020-2022)
Cecilia McCormick (BRITE REU Scholar Summer 2022)
Laila Norford (BRITE REU Scholar Summer 2022)
Mohammed Muzamil Khan (PhD Student 2020-2022)
Rafael dos Santos Peixoto (Undergrad Thesis Student 2021-2022)
Kylor Lachut (Undergraduate Student 2020-2021)
Clare Melley (Summer Undergraduate Student Summer 2021)
Pareesha Haresh (Summer Undergraduate Student 2021)
Liam Murray (Summer Undergraduate Student 2021)