Meet the Instructors

Members of the Cai Lab at the University of Michigan


Dr. Dawen Cai

Principal Investigator

Crosby-Kahn Collegiate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology 

Associate Professor of Biophysics

Michigan Neuroscience Institute

Ph.D. in Biophysics, University of Michigan

B.S. in Biotechnology, Peking University

Dr. Logan Walker

Bioinformatician-Computational Biologist

Ph.D. in Biophysics, University of Michigan

M.S. in Biophysics and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan

B.S. in Physics, Astronomy, and Astrophysics, The Ohio State University

Dr. Ye Li

Research Investigator

Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan

B.S. in Biology, Zhejiang University

Dr. Xiaoman Niu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. in Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Bin Duan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. in computer science, Illinois Institute of Technology

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Lanzhou University

Dr. Mou-Chi Cheng

Research Lab Specialist Senior

Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Michigan

B.S. in Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University


Joseph Letner

Ph.D Student (Biomedical Engineering)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan

Rajer (Jung-Chien) Hsieh

Ph.D Student (Neuroscience)

B.S. & M.S. in Biology, National Taiwan University

Stacey Greene

Program Manager

M.S. in General Science, Eastern Michigan University

B.A. in Education, University of Michigan