Photos of Lab Activities
2024
Jordan's Commencement
2024.5.10: Jordan graduated this year with multiple honors and awards, including the Barry Goldwater (awarded in 2023), the Discovery Scholar from USC, the QCB Google Alumni Award, and a commemorative mug printed with her first author paper in AJHG! She will begin her PhD in Stanford this fall. Looking forward to all the great things she will do!
2023
Caoqi's graduation
2023.7.6: Caoqi successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation! A celebratory dinner featured Caoqi's favorite food, steak! Pictures clockwise from bottom left: Charleston Chiang, Jordan Cahoon, Caoqi Fan, Bryan Dinh, Dorcus Malomane, Tsz Fung Chan, Jalen Langie, Xinran Wang.
Soyoung's commencement
2023.5.13: Soyoung attended the 2023 commencement ceremony and is the first student I get to hood!
We began the semi-regular game nights! Sometimes it is a dedicated evening with dinner, other times it's a quick round or two of games after lab meeting! Lots of laughs and bickering, conducive for team building! 2023.3.28: Jalen, Tsz Fung, Dorcus,Jordan and Echo. 2023.5.23: Bryan, Caoqi, Jalen, Dorcus, Tsz Fung, Jordan. 2023.6.6: Bryan, Melody, Jordan, Tsz Fung, Jalen, Dorcus, Caoqi. 2023.8.10: Bryan, Xinran, Tsz Fung, Jordan, Jalen, Dorcus.
Soyoung's
graduation
2023.1.13: Soyoung successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation! 2023.1.31: A celebration of Soyoung's defense and a productive 2022! Pictured from left to right: Tsz Fung Chan, Caoqi Fan (standing), Bryan Dinh, Chris Simons, Soyoung Jeon, Echo Tang, Jordan Cahoon, Charleston Chiang (standing), Dorcus Malomane, Yingchu Lo, and Jalen Langie.
2022
2022.10.31: Immediately following ASHG, we had a small Halloween party gathering, while Diego Ortega, a friend with the lab and junior group leader at UNAM visited!
2022.10.25-29: Chiang lab is well-represented in the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics! Pictured from left to right: Tsz Fung Chan, Jordan Cahoon, Yingchu Lo, Jalen Langie, Soyoung Jeon, Charleston Chiang, Caoqi Fan, Dorcus Malomane. Bryan should be photo-shopped in at some point!
2022.06.01: Chiang lab participated in the 5th annual Artist & Researcher series as part of the Humanities, Ethics/Economics, Arts and the Law (HEAL) program at Keck School of Medicine. This year we are paired with eric beal, who used spray paint on canvas to illustrate "the fabric of us." His work illustrated how all humans, across races, are all interconnected by an underlying network of trees. One major research theme in the Chiang lab currently is to leverage these trees, which can now be inferred from genetic data, to improve on the design and interpretation of human genetic studies.
2022.05.07: Lab outing at Tanaka Farm in Irvine for Brussels sprout and strawberry picking, farm tour and petting zoo!
2022.04.10: Hike at Eaton Canyon Trail. In front of the waterfall are (L to R) Artem (postdoc with Steven Gazal), Dorcus, Camellia, Ying-Chu, and Tsz-Fung.
2021
2021.12.18: End-of-the-year party with friends and family of the lab. (Left) White elephant gift exchange, (Right) picture in front of the Christmas Tree.
2021.11.05: Lab Lunch at Maddalena near HSC. Selfie mode made possibly by Chris' long arms! Pictured: (Left column, front to back) Jordan, Echo, Caoqi, Tsz Fung, Bryan, Charleston, (Right column, front to back) Chris, Soyoung, Jalen, Camellia, Ying-Chu.
2021.08.17: Nearly 1.5 years after working from home, we are about to come back in-person for the new semester. Last lab meeting in Summer 2021. Pictured: (top row) Tsz Fung, Charleston, Jordan, and Bryan, (middle row) Ying-Chu, Dandan, Echo, Xinghu, (bottom row) Caoqi, Soyoung, and Chris.
2020
2020.10.20: COVID prevented us from doing anything together as a group, so here's a picture of virtual lab meeting. Pictured: (top row) Tsz Fung, Charleston, Minhui, (middle row) Camellia, Bryan, Caoqi, (bottom row) Soyoung in hiding.