Lab news

[May 14, 2025] Battling with paintballs!

To celebrate Xin’ incoming baby, Rahil joining the lab, and recent lab publications, we played paintball with our friends from the Gruber Lab!

[May 14, 2025] Our work on developing a technology for capturing RNA content of subcellular compartments within native cellular and tissue context is published!

Read the article here. Read the press release here

[April 30, 2025] Our book chapter on various computational tools to dissect the spatial transcriptomics data for studying mammalian spermatogenesis is published!

Read the article here

[April 28, 2025] The lab has received the 2025 UTSW Haberecht Wildhare Idea Research Grant!

This grant award will facilitate the development of methods to track cell movement in vivo.

[April 9, 2025] Our review article on the applications of spatial transcriptomics technologies in studying mammalian spermatogenesis is published!

Read the article here

[Nov 8, 2024] Fall lab fun!

To celebrate many things (the holiday season and the 3rd anniversary of the lab are around the corner, Qianlan and Huong joined the lab, and Angie successfully completed her rotation), we immersed ourselves in VR gaming with our Mahendroo lab friends!

[Oct 28, 2024] The lab had a great time at the Green Center 50th anniversary dinner!

Happy 50th birthday, Green Center!

[Oct 11, 2024] Our collaborative work on developing a technology for continuous mutagenesis in living cells is published!

Read the article here

[July 24, 2024] Summer lab fun!

We played Pickleball with our friends from the Gruber Lab!

[April 27, 2024] Congratulation, Shreya!

Our star research tech Shreya Rajachandran is going to medical school this summer. Congratulations, Shreya! We will miss you!

[April 19, 2024] Our lab had a great time at the Texas Forum for Reproductive Sciences!

Upper left: Xin; upper right: Qiqi; bottom: Shreya.

[April 6, 2024] The lab has received two new grants from the NIH!

These grant awards will be used for developing/applying spatial omics technologies to understand the functions of biomolecular condensates and stem cell biology.

[March 6, 2024] Haiqi was named Rising Star in Reproductive Biology by the Scoceity for the Study of Reproduction!

Read the news article here.

[Nov 17, 2023] We went mini-golfing!

To celebrate many things (the upcoming holidays and the 2nd birthday of the lab, Qiqi winning the best trainee talk at the Green Center retreat, and Shreya getting into meddical school), we went mini-golfing with our Grow lab friends!

[Oct 31, 2023] Happy Halloween!

From left: Shreya, Haiqi, Xin, and Qiqi.

[Oct 12, 2023] Our lab had a great time at the departmental retreat!

Upper left: Xin; upper right: Shreya and Qiqi; lower left: Qiqi; and lower right: Shreya.

[Oct 3, 2023] How to make a spermbot?

Haiqi shares his vision for solving the targeted drug delivery problem. Read the essay here

[July 2, 2023] Our research article on dissecting the spermatogonial stem cell niche using spatial transcriptomics is published!

Read the article here

[June 23, 2023] Our review article on dissecting mammalian reproduction using spatial transcriptomics technologies is published!

Read the article here

[Jun 16, 2023] The lab hosted another awesome Green Center party!

Celebrating the pride month and Juneteenth with ice cream! From left: Shreya, Qiqi, Haiqi, and Xin.

[May 5, 2023] We threw some axes!

To celebrate many things (lab getting a NIH grant, Melanie wrapping up her project, Shreya getting a perfect MCAT score, and Lupe getting a promotion), we went to throw some axes! From left: Shreya, Melanie, Haiqi, Manjita (Grow Lab), Lupe, Denise (Grow Lab), Qiqi, and Xin.

[April 27, 2023] Our collaborative work on developing a spatial genomics technology at subcellular resolution is published!

Read the article here

[April 14, 2023] The lab has received funding from the NIH!

This grant award will be used for developing a spatially resolved CRISPR screen approach to study gene functions at scale.

[Dec 9, 2022] We escaped a room!

To celebrate many things (the holidays, Melanie finishing her medical board exam, Xin and Qiqi joining the lab, the upcoming 1-year anniversary of the lab, etc), we successfully escaped a room with our friends at the Grow Lab! From left: Melanie, Denise (Grow Lab), Ed (Grow Lab), Qiqi, Haiqi, Manjita (Grow Lab), Lupe, and Shreya.