Principal Investigator

Associate Professor, Bioengineering
Research Interests: Systems, synthetic and quantitative biology; quantitative biology, cell fate decision making, immunology
Contact: kueh [at] uw [dot] edu
Lab Members
Morgan Bean
Graduate Student, Bioengineering
Research Interests: Manipulating T cell circuitry to engineering new T cell functions.
Hobbies: Going to concerts, skiing, camping, watching movies, house planting
Cell Type: I would be a hair cell because I love listening to music.
Contact: mmr34 [at] uw [dot] edu
Ethan Cheney
Undergraduate, Bioengineering
Research Interests: I am interested in building CRISPR tools to probe enhancer function in Bcl11b.
Hobbies: reading fantasy/sci-fi, climbing, running, painting, video games
Cell Type: I would be a glial cell because I like giving people hugs.
Contact: ethanc24 [at] uw [dot] edu
Kathryn Denecke
Graduate Student, Bioengineering
Research Interests: Kathryn is studying the biological mechanisms of T cell lineage commitment.
Hobbies: Climbing, hiking, rollerblading, skiing, and painting
Cell Type: I would be a stem cell because I’m indecisive.
Contact: kdenecke [at] uw [dot] edu
Yufei Gao
Graduate Student, Bioengineering
Research Interests: Yufei is interested in engineering T cells for learning and treating diseases like cancer.
Hobbies: Dance, badminton, traveling, eating nice food, watching TV shows
Cell Type: I would be a chondrocyte (cells in cartilage) because I like to dance.
Contact: yug016 [at] uw [dot] edu
Linda Guo
Undergraduate Student
Research Interests: Linda is working with grad student Madeline Wong on blood cell differentiation / lineage analysis.
Hobbies: reading, swimming, crocheting
Cell Type: I would be a macrophage because I like eating and trying new foods.
Contact: lindag26 [at] uw [dot] edu
Arjun Kumar
Graduate Student, Molecular & Cellular Biology
Research Interests: Arjun is interested in understanding and modulating T-cell exhaustion differentiation in cell therapy.
Hobbies: Basketball, climbing, hiking, concerts
Cell Type: I would be a neural progenitor because I want to learn everything I can.
Contact: ajkumar [at] uw [dot] edu
Paul Leanza
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Paul is interested in exploring the role of T cell function/dysfunction in cancers, chronic infections, and autoimmune disorders.
Hobbies: cooking, walking my dogs, swimming, and drawing
Cell Type: I would be a dendritic cell because I sometimes like to walk around aimlessly sampling the environment for something that looks interesting.
Contact: pjleanza [at] uw [dot] edu
Madeline Wong
Graduate Student, Chemistry
Co-mentored with Joshua Vaughan, Chemistry
Research Interests: Maddie is interested in using new microscopy-based methods to study hematopoietic stem cell differentiation.
Hobbies: Cooking, Traveling, Napping in the sun like a cat
Cell Type: I would be a gustatory receptor cell (taste buds) since I like to eat.
Contact: mwong86 [at] uw [dot] edu
Rebecca Wu
Graduate Student, Bioengineering
Research Interests: Rebecca is interested in how peptide information is decoded in T cells.
Hobbies: Hiking, soccer, ultimate, cooking, reading
Cell Type: I would be a neuron because I am easily excited and amused.
Contact: rebw25 [at] uw [dot] edu
Lab Alumni
William White, PhD – Graduate student (now IRACDA Postdoc @ Tufts University)
Elisa Clark, PhD – Graduate student (now Patent Agent @ McNeill Baur PLLC)
Matthew Wither, PhD – Graduate student (now Research Scientist III @ Seattle Children’s)
Kathleen Abadie, PhD – Graduate student (now Scientist @ Allen Institute of Immunology)
Marcus Woodworth, PhD – Graduate student (now Postdoc @ University of Pennsylvania)
Nicholas Pease, PhD – Graduate student (now Postdoc @ University of Pittsburgh)
Jon Chu, PhD – Graduate student (now MD candidate @ University of Washington)
Sam Nguyen, PhD – Graduate student (now Postdoc @ University of California San Diego)
Lihua Chen, Lab manager/Research Scientist
Kenneth Ng, Lab manager/Research Scientist (now Research Associate II @ City of Hope)
Willow Chernoske, Rotation student
Maya Singh, Rotation student
Kira Olander, Rotation student
Eric Yang, Rotation student
Issa Yousif, Rotation student
Selena Yeung, Undergraduate student
Hailemikael (Michael) Yirdaw, Undergraduate student
Jumana Fathima, Undergraduate student
Allan Wang, Undergraduate student
Hyeon Jin Kim, Undergraduate student
Jonathan Lim, Undergraduate student
Jamie Santos, Undergraduate student
Leonard Chen, Undergraduate student
Blythe Irwin, Undergraduate student