People

Marie has been a member of the Chiu lab since May 2026. She earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine where she studied epigenetic regulation of cell cycle exit in cerebellar granule neurons. Prior to joining...

Xinmin Qian hails from Nantong, a coastal city in eastern China. He earned his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University, where he conducted research in Dr. Wenwen Zeng’s lab, exploring the intricate interplay between bacteria and host in driving the skin...

Allegra is from a small town near Venice, Italy. She moved to the United States to attend Dartmouth College. Here she majored in human and molecular biology and worked on identifying epigenetic biomarkers of breast cancer risk in the Christensen lab...

Eunice grew up in Melbourne, Australia. She completed her undergraduate studies and PhD program specialising in pharmacology at Monash University. During this training period, her research focused on understanding the molecular and biochemical processes...

Chirag grew up in the Bay Area of California. After graduating from Duke University with a BS in Chemical Biology, he enrolled at Johns Hopkins, where he earned his MD and PhD in Neuroscience under Dr. Solomon Snyder. His graduate thesis leveraged...

Alyssa was born and raised in Boston, MA. For undergraduate, she attended UNC Chapel Hill where she received a BS in neuroscience and BSPH in nutrition science. Here, she worked with Dr. Ian Carroll to investigate microbiota-directed nutritional...

Calvin was born and raised in Toronto. He received his BA in psychology and BScH in life sciences from Queen’s University. For his doctoral studies, Calvin moved to Montreal where he worked in the lab of Dr. Arkady Khoutorsky at McGill University studying...