Feng Guo, Ph.D.
Professor in Biological Chemistry
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Dr. Guo is a structural biologist and biochemist who joined the UCLA School of Medicine faculty in July 2004. He earned his B.S. in Biophysics at the Nankai University and M.S. in Physical Chemistry at the Peking University, both in China. Dr. Guo received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. In graduate school, he studied the Cre-loxP site-specific DNA recombination using X-ray crystallography. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Thomas Cech at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he worked on the thermostability and crystal structure of large ribozymes.
Current Members
Grant Shoffner
Postdoctoral Scholar
GShoffner (at) mednet (dot) ucla (dot) edu
Brian Nguyen
Graduate Student
brian (at) mbi (dot) ucla (dot) edu
Kyu Yang
Graduate Student
dlsrb91356978 (at) g (dot) ucla (dot) edu
Scott Hale
Graduate Student
scotthale100 (at) chem (dot) ucla (dot) edu
Justin Pi
Graduate Student
jmpi (at) g (dot) ucla (dot) edu
Ethan Tai
Undergraduate Student
ethantai2 (at) g (dot) ucla (dot) edu
Former Lab Members
| Name | Position in Lab | Current Position |
| Michio Matsunaga | Postdoctoral Fellow 2004-2006 | Manager at KOKEN.CO, Japan |
| Michael Faller | Postdoctoral Fellow 2004-2006 | Research Investigator at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research |
| Ming Gong | Postdoctoral Fellow 2007-2009 | Research Assistant professor at UCLA |
| Maryam Nafissi | Undergraduate Student 2005-2006 | Graduate student at UCLA |
| Charles Hu | Undergraduate Student 2006-2007 | Valley Hospital Las Vegas |
| Huanyu Liu | Undergraduate Student 2007-2008 | |
| Daniel Hwang | Undergraduate Student 2006-2010 | Boston University School of Medicine |
| Rachel Senturia | Graduate Student 2007-2012 | Santa Clara University School of Law |
| Ian Barr | Graduate Student 2007-2012 | Assistant Professor at Dominican University of California |
| Jun Deng | Lab Assistant 2008-2009 | |
| Brooke Scheidemantle | Undergraduate Student 2009-2012 | |
| Jose Jacob | Undergraduate/ Master Student 2009-2012 | |
| Yanqui Chen | Lab Assistant 2009-2011 | |
| Sara Weitz | Graduate Student 2010-2015 | |
| Jen Cleveland | Graduate Student 2012-2017 | Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz |
| Grant Shoffner | Graduate Student 2012-2018 | |
| Zhixiang Peng | Lab Assistant 2017-2020 | |
| Evan Hurlow | Graduate Student 2019-2022 | Scientist at Snapdragon Chemistry |
| Christen Tai | Undergraduate Student 2019-2022 | |
| Yan Li | Graduate Student 2018-2024 |
