People

Inmates

Peter Robin Hiesinger

Robin did his undergraduate and graduate studies in genetics, computational biology and philosophy (totally shows) at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He then did his postdoc with EMBO and HHMI fellowships at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Having come to Dallas in 2006, he is since 10 years (!!!) in Texas, yet still maintains a life with no fast food, no TV, no gun and no right to vote.

Peter Robin Hiesinger, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor
email: robin.hiesinger@utsouthwestern.edu
phone: 214-645-6060

Leah Benson, Adminstrative Contact

Just don't even try to ask Robin. Leah runs this lab.

Leah Benson - Administrative Associate
email: Leah.benson@utsouthwestern.edu
phone: 214-645-5920

Instructors and Postdocs

Dong Wang, Ph.D.

Dong (or Wang?) received a B.S. from Kunming Normal College, a Masters from Yunnan University, and a Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Science. He worked as a biology teacher in China, a DAAD postdoc at the University of Munich in Germany and a postdoctoral fellow in Singapore. Having worked all his scientific career with the genetic model plant Arabidopsis he did the only square thing at Southwestern Medical Center: start working on the genetic model Drosophila - fundamentally Arabidopsis with wings.

Dong Wang, Ph.D. - Instructor
email: dong.wang@utsouthwestern.edu
phone: 214-645-6059

Chih-Chiang Chan, Ph.D.

still whizzing around...

Chih-Chiang Chan, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow
email: chih-chiang.chan@utsouthwestern.edu
phone: 214-645-6056

Graduate Students

Egemen Agi, B.S.

Our Engineer-turned-Biologist who wants to image and model brain wiring!

Egemen Agi, B.S. - Graduate Student
email: egemen.agi@utsouthwestern.edu
phone: 214-645-6059

Ossama Saladin, B.S.

Ossama is a Master Student from the American University in Cairo. Coming straight from the Revolution.

Ossama Saladin, B.S. - Visiting Masters Student
phone: 214-645-6059

Lab Manager and Technicians

Smita Cherry, B.S.

Our hero. No, really.
Oh yeah, and our lab manager. And we need all the managing we can get.
Also: Current Holder of the Knawlege Lead Pipe Award.

Smita Cherry, B.S. - Research Associate
email: smita.cherry@utsouthwestern.edu
phone: 214-645-6059

Daniel Epstein, B.S.

Passed on the Knawlege Lead Pipe Award to Smita. So now he's playing with marker pens.

Daniel Epstein, B.S. - Research Technician.... or Graduate Student.... or what?
email: daniel.epstein@utsouthwestern.edu
phone: 214-645-6059

Jennifer Jin, B.S.

Jen is a recent graduate from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The last two Reedies we had in the lab are now graduate students at UCSF and UCSD...

Jennifer Jin, B.S. - Research Technician
email: yongmee@gmail.com
phone: 214-645-6059

Alumni

  • W. Ryan Williamson PhD, former Graduate Student, now Postdoc at Janelia Farm, Laboratory Dr. Card
  • Adam Haberman PhD, former Assistant Instructor, now Assistant Professor at Oberlin College
  • Sunil Mehta MD PhD, former Resident and Research Fellow, now at UCLA with Dr. Larry Zipursky