Our Team.

We are a small team that works closely together.

Mengyi Cao (PI)

B.A. Colorado College (Biology)

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison (Microbiology)

Postdoc. Caltech BBE

Independent Fellow: Carnegie Science

Mingyuan Xu (Technician)

B.A. Colorado College (Molecular Biology)

Sally Ireri (Postdoc fellow)

B.Sc. University of Nairobi (Biochemistry)

Ph.D. UC-Riverside (Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology)

Previous lab members, mentees, and collaborators

Mingyuan Xu (Summer Intern: 2025)

Mark Prator (Lab technician: 2025)

Carly Myers (Lab technician: 2023-25)

Elin Larson (co-mentored Caltech Ph.D. student: 2023-25)

John Marken (collaborator and Caltech Ph.D. student: 2023)

Victoria Chen (Caltech undergraduate student mentee)

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