Lab News

  • May 2024, Neha Desai joined lab for research experience as a volunteer.
  • February 2024, Ian Jones and Wafer Al-Sibai joined Guolab for undergraduate research experience.
  • January 2024, Jeff Gerst and Julian Aileru joined Guolab for graduate research.
  • September 2023, Dr. Siwen Wu joined Guolab as a postdoctoral research associate.
  • January 2023, Deepti Nair joined lab for research experience as a volunteer.
  • January 2023, Levine scholar Roshna Ragunatha (class of 2024) joined Guolab for undergraduate research experience.  
  • September 2022, Kritika Bokka joined Guolab for undergraduate research experience.
  • August 2022, Omkar Marne joined Guolab for his first Ph.D. rotation.
  • June 27, 2022, Jack sucessfully passed his Ph.D. qualifying exam. Congratulations!
  • May 2022, Zarin Khan and Maanav Jariwala joined Guolab for summer undergraduate research experience.
  • May 16, 2022, Thu Vang and Joshua Mikombo joined Guolab for their internship projects. 
  • April 11, 2022, Fareeha successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Malik!
  • August, 2021, Thu Vang and Thao My Nguyen joined Guolab as research assistants.
  • May, 2021, Belle Xu from Duke joined Guolab for summer undergraduate research experience. 
  • April, 2021, Fareeha received the GSSF Summer Fellowship, congratulations!
  • March, 2021, Dr. Guo received a 3-year NIH grant to study protein-ssDNA interactions.
  • February, 2021, Dr. Guo received a 3-year NSF grant to develop methods for assessment of protein-DNA complex models.
  • January 2021, Jack Young joined Guolab for his Ph.D. dissertation research.
  • September 25, 2020, Jing successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Chen!
  • July 16, 2020, Maoxuan successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Lin!
  • May 1, 2020, Fareeha Malik successfully passed her Ph.D. proposal defense, congratulations!
  • April, 2020, Maoxuan received the GSSF Summer Fellowship, congratulations!
  • February, 2020, Jing received the Dissertation Completion Fellowship, congratulations!
  • January 2020, Madison Wilson joined Guolab for her undergraduate Capstone project.
  • December 2019, Maoxuan Lin successfully passed his Ph.D. proposal defense, congratulations!
  • January 2019, Lonnie Baker and Jannatul (Moon) Ferdous joined Guolab for their rotation projects.
  • December 2018, Jing Chen successfully passed her Ph.D. proposal defense, congratulations!
  • August 2018, Maoxuan successfully passed his Ph.D. qualifying exam. Congratulations!
  • August 2018, Fareeha successfully passed her Ph.D. qualifying exam. Congratulations!
  • October 2017, Fareeha Kanwal joined Guolab for her Ph.D. dissertation research.
  • August 2017, Maoxuan Lin joined Guolab as a Ph.D. student.
  • July 10, 2017, congratulations to Jing Chen for successfully passing her Ph.D. qualifying exam.
  • March 2017, Kiera Patanella joined Guolab as a research assistant.
  • January 2017, Fareeha Kanwal joined lab for rotation project.
  • November 7, 2016, Alvin successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Farrel!
  • August 2016, Jing Chen joined GuoLab for her Ph.D. rotation project.
  • August 2016, Abimbola Aruwajoye joined GuoLab for her independent study project.
  • May 2016, Levine Scholar Sarah Whitmire (class of 2016) joined Guolab for her summer internship project.
  • March 21 2016, Ivetth successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Corona!
  • January 2016, Satya Uppuganti joined Guolab for her PSM internship project. 
  • September 2015, Dr. Guo received a 3-year NIH R15 grant to investigate structural features for protein-DNA binding specificity.
  • August 2015, Lei Zhao joined Guolab for his Ph.D. rotation project.
  • May 2015, Jonathan Murphy joined Guolab as a Charlotte Research Scholar.
  • May 2015, Dr. Sanjana Sudarshan joined Guolab as a postdoctoral research associate.
  • March 30, 2015, congratulations to Ivetth! Ivetth teamed up with Rachel Walstead and Chris Ball and won the Freestyle category of the Hackathon.
  • January 2015, Laken Shumate joined Guolab as a research assistant.
  • August 2014, Dr. Guo received a new NSF grant for protein-DNA complex structure modeling.
  • August 2014, Anuja Jain joined Guolab for her PSM Internship project.
  • July 2014, PSM student Maoxuan Lin joined Guolab as a research assistant.
  • May 2014, Alvin received the FASEB MARC Travel Award to attend ISMB2014 in Boston. Congratulations! 
  • May 2014, Alvin Farrel was awarded the GAANN Scholarship by CCI at UNC Charlotte. Congratulations to Alvin!
  • February 2014, congratulations to Alvin for successfully passing his qualifying exam!
  • February 2014, Shelby Matlock joined Guolab for undergraduate research experience.
  • January 2014, Van Luong joined Guolab for her PSM Internship project.
  • October 2013, Dr. Wei Song joined Guolab as a postdoc research associate.
  • August 2013, Shane Lofgren, a PSM student of Bioinformatics, joined Guolab as a research assistant. 
  • February 2013, Chi-Yu (Jack) Yen joined Guolab for his second Ph.D. rotation project.
  • August 2012, Alvin Farrel joined Guolab for his first Ph.D. rotation project.
  • February 2012, congratulations to Ivetth for successfully passing her qualifying exam!
  • November 2011, Dr. Guo and collaborators Dr. Bo Hong and Mr. Jiadong Wu at Georgia Tech receive BIBM 2011 Best Paper Award.
  • Stephanie Threatt, a rising sophomore from Harvard, joined Guolab as a summer intern (May-July, 2011).
  • Ivetth Corona joined Guolab as a Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program in January 2011.
  • Dr. Takako Takeda joined Guolab as a postdoc research associate on December 1, 2010. Takako recently got her Ph.D. from George Mason University.
  • Daniel Turner joined the lab as a summer intern on June 1, 2010.
  • Akshita Dutta received a bioinformatics summer internship at Monsanto in St. Louis, Missouri, Congratulations!
  • September 2009, Akshita Dutta, a PSM student of Bioinformatics joined the lab as a research assistant.
  • August 2009, Jason Smith joined the lab to work on his undergraduate research project.
  • August 2009, Guo lab moved to the new Bioinformatics building at UNC Charlotte.
  • July 2009, Dr. Guo received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) to investigate transcription-factor binding sites via structure-based approaches.
  • March 2009, Dr. Guo (Co-PI) received a research grant from the CMC-UNC Charlotte Collaborative Grants Program on “An Integrative Approach to Study the Transcriptional Regulation of ALAS1 by Heme”.
  • December 2007, Dr. RyangGuk (Rick) Kim joined the lab from Georgia Tech as a postdoc research associate.