Meet the Instructors

Members of the Cai Lab at the University of Michigan


Dr. Dawen Cai

Principal Investigator

Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology 

Associate Professor of Biophysics

Michigan Neuroscience Institute



Maggie McGlothlin

Lab Manager & Technician

Master's Student, Bioinformatics

B.S. in Biology, Cleveland State University


Dr. Logan Walker

Bioinformatician-Computational Biologist

Ph.D. Biophysics

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

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

Dr. Ye Li

Postdoctoral Fellow

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

B.S. in Biology, Zhejiang University

Dr. David (Tzu-Wei) Kuo

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. in Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco

M.S. in Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University

M.D., National Taiwan University

Dr. Sharon (Hsiang-Hsuan) Huang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. in Neuroscience,  University of California, San Diego

M.D., National Taiwan University

Dr. Xiaoman Niu

Postdoctoral Fellow

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

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

Ken Athukorala

Lab Technician

B.S in Neuroscience, University of Michigan

Dr. Mou-Chi Cheng

Research Lab Specialist Senior

Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Michigan

B.S. in Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University


Lucy (Haoxuan) Wang

Lab Technician

Master's Student, Science in Information

B.S. in Neuroscience, University of Michigan