People

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

Yan Li

Graduate Student

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Evan Hurlow

Graduate Student Intern

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Christen Tai

Undergraduate Researcher

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Former Lab Members

NamePosition in LabCurrent Position
Michio MatsunagaPostdoctoral Fellow
2004-2006
Manager at KOKEN.CO, Japan
Michael FallerPostdoctoral Fellow
2004-2006
Research Investigator at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Ming GongPostdoctoral Fellow
2007-2009
Research Assistant professor at UCLA
Maryam NafissiUndergraduate Student
2005-2006
Graduate student at UCLA
Charles HuUndergraduate Student
2006-2007
Valley Hospital Las Vegas
Huanyu LiuUndergraduate Student
2007-2008
Daniel HwangUndergraduate Student
2006-2010
Boston University School of Medicine
Rachel SenturiaGraduate Student
2007-2012
Santa Clara University School of Law
Ian BarrGraduate Student
2007-2012
Assistant Professor at Dominican University of California
Jun DengLab Assistant
2008-2009
Brooke ScheidemantleUndergraduate
Student
2009-2012
Jose JacobUndergraduate/
Master Student
2009-2012
Yanqui ChenLab Assistant
2009-2011
Sara WeitzGraduate Student
2010-2015
Jen ClevelandGraduate Student
2012-2017
Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz
Grant ShoffnerGraduate Student
2012-2018
Zhixiang PengLab Assistant
2017-2020

Lab Photos