Xiao Group Members
Principle Investigator
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Jie Xiao, Ph.D. - Principle Investigator
Jie grew up in Chongqing, the famous Mountain City in China. She entered Nanjing University for her undergraduate education and graduated in 1995 with her BS in Biochemistry. In 1997, she came to the United States and enrolled in the Graduate Program in Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Rice University, working with Prof. Scott F. Singleton on the mechanism of RecA mediated strand exchange reaction. Later in her graduate years she found herself deeply fascinated by single molecule biophysics and joined Prof. Sunney Xie's group at Harvard University after her graduation in 2002. She spent four good years learning single molecule fluorescence microscopy and physical chemistry, while contributing to the group with her biological background and perspectives. In 2006, she decided to escape the cold winter of Boston and found her home in the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. She will continue the line of research where she takes single molecule assays into living cells to probe many different aspects of cellular dynamics. In addition to the work going on in her lab, she loves the beautiful weather of Maryland and spicy food. |
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Tao Huang, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow
Tao spent his childhood in Linfen, China. After four years in Taiyuan City, in 2001 he graduated with a B.S. in theoretical physics from Shanxi University. He loved SXU so much that he stayed for his Ph.D. in Physics (Major: Optics). He is an expert in manipulation of lasers and microscopes. Tao is looking forward to learning more about biophysics, as well as American culture (but not the food!). |
Graduate Students
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Zach Hensel - Ph.D. Student
Zach is a second-year student in the Program in Computational and Molecular Biophysics. He studied physics and cinema studies at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign before coming to Johns Hopkins. Zach works on in vivo single-molecule visualization of genetic regulatory networks. |
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Jackson Buss - Ph.D. Student
Jackson is a second-year student in the Program in Molecular Biophysics at JHU. He earned a B.S. in Biology from the University at Buffalo in 2005 and liked the cold winters so much that after graduating he stayed for an additional two years working as a technician in the lab of Dr. Piero Bianco. Jackson is currently researching various aspects of E. coli cell division via in vivo fluorescence microscopy. |
Technicians
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Christine Hatem - Research Specialist Christine joined the lab in 2007. She has an M.S. in Pathology from the University of Maryland Baltimore, and a B.A. in Biology from the University of Virginia. She has previously worked at JHU in the Center for Tuberculosis Research and in the Biology Department, as well as at George Washington University and Duke University. She is currently working on creating fluorescently labeled E. Coli cell division proteins. |
Undergraduate Students
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Amy Kim- Undergraduate Student Amy is a junior at Johns Hopkins University majoring in Molecular & Cellular Biology and came to Jie's lab to do her undergraduate research. She was born in Seoul, Korea and came to New York to attend Bronx High School of Science, She hopes to learn more about bacterial cell division and is excited to join the lab! |
Former members