Lumen Chao is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Children’s National Hospital. Her research interest focus on utilizing genome-wide CRISPR screen and single-cell RNA-seq technology to systematically identify critical genes and potential drug targets in brain tumors. Having been trained as an experimental biologist for years, she hopes to integrate both computational biology and experimental biology to comprehensively analyze the critical genes (oncogenes/suppressers) and regulatory networks in pediatric brain tumor.

Lumen received her first postdoc training at Michigan State University. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Genetics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China and bachelor’s degree in biology at Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. She focused on uncovering key transcription factors and regulatory networks of temperature response and immunity in plants.