President’s Big Ideas Initiative Awarded!
The Shen Lab has been awarded $200,000 through the President’s Big Ideas Initiative to lead the development of a Microbiome-Based Precision Biology Platform Integrating Multi-Omics, Organoid-on-Chip, and Artificial Intelligence. This interdisciplinary effort brings together Dr. Yoko Ambrosini from the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Dr. Honghao Wei from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer […]
Congratulations, Anastasia!
Congratulations to Anastasia Chepel on receiving the Novice Researcher Award in the Molecular, Cellular, and Chemical Biology category at SURCA 2026 for her poster presentation, “Mapping the Global Human Microbiome: A Reproducible Analysis of Public Shotgun Metagenomic Data with a Focus on Crohn’s Disease.” This award honors students at any academic level who are new […]
Congratulations, Lily!
Congratulations to Lily Brown on receiving the Auvil Scholars Fellowship for the 2026–2027 academic year! Administered by the Washington Apple Education Foundation, this fellowship provides $1,500 in scholarship support. We are deeply grateful to the donors whose generosity makes this award possible and helps create meaningful research opportunities for undergraduate students.
Welcome, Miyoung!
We’re excited to have Miyoung Lee join the Shen Lab as our lab manager, assisting with day-to-day operations and wet lab experiments.
Welcome, Bridget!
The Shen Lab welcomes Bridget Doyle, a graduate student in the M.S. program in Molecular Biosciences, as our first rotation student! Her rotation project focuses on developing preprocessing scripts and analyzing shotgun metagenomic sequencing data from an Australian infant cohort.
The Shen Lab Launches!
Dr. Zeyang Shen officially joined the School of Molecular Biosciences as a tenure-track Assistant Professor on September 1, 2025, marking the establishment of the Shen Lab.