Meet the Team

Lab Retreat 2024 in Santa Ysabel Valley, CA

Xin Jin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Dorris Neuroscience Center, Scripps Research

Adjunct Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego

Xin received her B.Sc. in Chemistry from MIT and her Ph.D. in Biology from The Rockefeller University working in the Laboratory of Cori Bargmann. As a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, she worked with Feng Zhang, Paola Arlotta, and Aviv Regev to develop and apply in vivo genetic screening tools to study brain development. She is the recipient of the Pew Biomedical Scholar, McKnight Scholar Award, Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship, Prebys Research Heroes, Baxter Young Investigator Award, Larry L. Hillblom Award, Mathers Foundation Award, One Mind Rising Star Award, Early Career Investigator Award from the International Society of Autism Research, and was named as one of the ‘35 Innovators Under 35’ by MIT Tech Review.

Twitter @xinjin | CV

  • Amber Selstad

    UCSD Intern

  • Andrea Balcan

    UCSD ATHS Scholar

  • Amy Pan

    UCSD Intern

  • Boli Wu

    Mark Pearson Endowed Graduate Fellow

  • Cassie White

    Skaggs-Oxford Graduate Fellow

  • Coco Yu

    UCSD Intern

  • Ellie Petty

    Joint Student (Lairson Lab, Chemistry)

  • Jill Liu

    Graduate Student

  • Jiwen Li, Ph.D.

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Kayla Nestor

    Senior Administrative Coordinator Extraordinaire

  • Nhan Huynh

    Research Technician

  • Patrick Thompson

    Dorris Graduate Scholar

  • Philip Tsai

    UCSD Intern

  • Qiucun She

    Research Intern

  • Thoko Nyasulu

    Research Technician

  • Xinhe Zheng

    Frank J. Dixon Graduate Scholar

  • Zhilin Wang, Ph.D.

    CIRM Postdoctoral Fellow

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Research Technicians

Grace Clarke 2022-24

Graham Anderson 2021-24

Kristina Ivanov 2021-22

Scripps Research Institute Ph.D. Program

UCSD Graduate Program

NYU Bioinformatics Program

Undergraduate & high school interns

Siena Parr 2024

Chloe Samouhi 2024

Abdullah Ashiq 2021-24

Isha Desai 2021-24

Josh Park 2020-23

Catherine Kuo 2023

Anjali Srinivasan 2021-22

Rebecca Gin 2021-22

Dolores Secondary School 2025’

Barnard College undergrad

Harvard University Biological and Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Program

UCSD graduate

UCSD Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Ph.D. Program

UCSD undergrad