Meet The Team

Yu (Sunny) Liu

Principal Investigator / Assistant Professor

Cancer Epigenetics Institute, Nuclear Dynamics and Cancer Program

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Postdoctoral Fellow, Job Dekker lab at UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

PhD in Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Linda Lyons

Administrative Assistant

Rebecca Smith

Lab Manager / Scientific Technician

Research topic: How is the genome folded?

Ivy Tran

MD/Ph.D. student, LKSOM@Temple University

Research topic: Deep learning in 3D genome.

Ryan Williams

Bioinformatician

Research topic: Developing novel analytic tools; maintaining system and massive genomic data.

Kathleen Schiela

Scientific Technician

Research topic: How is the genome regulated?

Hannah Wilson

Scientific Technician

Research topic: How does cohesin extrude chromatin loops?

Michael Lopez-Zabala

Undergraduate Researcher

Research topic: Genome folding and cancer

Alexander Weiss, Ph.D.

Special Consultant of the lab / Group Leader at Evotec, Germany

Research topic: Health risks posed by falling coconuts

Former members

Samantha Williamson, EMPOWER fellowship student, 2024, University of Delaware

Elise Regan, High school intern, 2024, Wissahickon High School

Joseph Gilberto Martini, MD student, Summer project, 2024, LKSOM@Temple University

Linda Cathey, Administrative Assistant, 2023-2024, Fox Chase Cancer Center