LI YE
Professor and Abide-Vividion Chair,
HHMI Investigator,
Department of Neuroscience & Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute
liye (at) scripps.edu
Li Ye received his B.S. in Biological Sciences from Tsinghua University in 2006. He pursued his Ph.D. with Bruce Spiegelman at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (2012), followed by a postdoc (2013-2017) with Karl Deisseroth at Stanford University. Li joined Scripps as an Assistant Professor in 2018 and was promoted to Professor with tenure in 2023. He was named an HHMI Investigator in 2024.
BOHAN ZHAO
AHA Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Tsinghua University
XUN HUANG
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. in Metabolism, Peking University
ZHENGYUAN PANG
Postdoctoral Fellow - joint with Cravatt lab
Ph.D. in Biological and Biomedical Science, Scripps Research
KAILI XUE
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. in Metabolism, Peking University
SENHAN XU
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
RUI ZHOU
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. in Molecular Neuroscience, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing (NIBS)
JIAJUN DU
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
TIANBO QI
Ph.D. Student
B.S. in Biological Science, Tsinghua University
HANBING SHEN
Ph.D. Student
B.S. in Biomedical Sciences, Zhejiang University
LEYAO SHEN
Ph.D. Student
B.S. in Biological Science, Lanzhou University
LOGAN H SIGUA
M.D./Ph.D. Student - joint with Cravatt lab
B.A. Chemistry, Boston University
ALEXANDRA SELKE
Lab manager
M.S. Neuroscience, Georgia State University
M.A. Psychological Science, CSU San Marcos
B.A. Psychological Science, CSU San Marcos
CAILYNN WANG
Research Technician
B.S. Clinical Psychology, Chemistry minor, University of California, San Diego
VERINA LEUNG
Research Technician
B.S. Neurobiology, University of California San Diego
DAWN HOFFER
Research Technician
B.S. Neuroscience, University of Washington
COLTON KRULL
Research Technician
B.S. Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of California San Diego
FARID REZAYAT
Research Technician
B.S. Human Biology, University of California San Diego
SABA HEYDARI-SERADJ
Undergraduate Intern
University of California San Diego
ANI HOVHANNISIAN
Undergraduate Intern
University of California San Diego
YIYANG WU
Undergraduate Intern
University of California San Diego
JEANNA HOANG
Lab Admin Coordinator
JUSTIN FARRELL
Undergraduate Intern
University of California San Diego
Alumni
Christopher Glynn (Master student—PhD student at Scripps)
Nylah King-Boyd (High school intern—Harvard University)
Enya Engström (Visiting PhD student—Karolinska Institutet)
Alan Zhang (Undergraduate intern/Research tech—PhD student at Yale)
Jaime van Rensburg (Undergraduate intern)
Neeraj Lal (Postdoc—Schmidt AI Fellow at UCSD)
Yu Wang (PhD student—Postdoc at Stanford)
Malcolm Hain (Visiting master student—Freie Universität Berlin)
Samarth Aggarwal (Intern—PhD student at Wash U)
Dong Yang (Postdoc—Staff scientist at Scripps Research)
Kristina Wang (Undergraduate intern/Research tech—MD student at Yale)
Victoria Nudell (Research assistant/Lab manager—MD/PhD student at Penn State)
Jack Read (Undergraduate intern—MD/PhD student at Columbia)
Kelvin Mo (Undergraduate intern—PhD student at Harvard)
Wesam Kanim (Undergraduate intern)
Vanessa Castillo (Undergraduate intern—PhD student at UCSD)
Dovounnae Green (SURF student)