Team | Liu Lab @ Scripps Research

In this lab, we believe

Our laboratory is committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment where scientific excellence thrives. We mentor and empower scientists with different backgrounds, experiences, scientific preferences, and worldviews.

In this spirit, our laboratory will welcome and champion all scientists regardless of race, religion, age, sexual orientation, or gender.

Meet the Team

Principal Investigator (PI2)

Yuzhong Liu

Postdoc Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Advisor: Jay Keasling

Ph.D. in Chemistry

University of California, Berkeley

Advisor: Omar Yaghi

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Research Assistant

Lab manager

Celine Wang

B.Sc. in Biology

Whittier College

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Lab Administrative Coordinator

Rebecca Wu

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Postdoctoral Researcher (P1)

Dr. Yihan Yang

Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Postdoctoral Researcher (P1)

Dr. Jan Crames

Ph.D. in Chemistry

Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

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Graduate Student (G2)

Heewon Seo

B.Sc. in Biochemistry & B.A. in History

Oberlin College

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Graduate Student (G2)

Alexandra Du

B.Sc. in Chemistry

University of California Berkeley

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Graduate Student (G2)

Yukiye Koide

B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering

Harvard University

M.Sc. in Biology

University of San Francisco

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Visiting student

Lijian Su

Undergraduate in Chemistry

Xiamen University, China

Lead Physicist

Coco Cat

Inspired by Newton's law of universal gravitation, Coco is passionate about knocking everything off the table and has gotten quite good at it.

Product Manager

Young Christian

Christian identifies the market problem of cat food shortage in the house and then leads the group (of 2) to scream at the human to effectively solve the problem.