Lab Members
Director

George Lynn Cross Research Professor and
Presidential Professor
Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology
Director
Institute for Environmental Genomics
jzhou@ou.edu
(405) 325-6073
Staff

Liyou Wu, PhD
Adjunct Professor/Research Scientist
Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology
Facilities Manager
Institute for Environmental Genomics
2006.3 join IEG
lywu@ou.edu
(405) 325-2537

Aifen Zhou, PhD
Research Scientist
Institute for Environmental Genomics
2010 - Scientist at IEG
2006 - 2010 Postdoc at IEG
aifen.zhou-1@ou.edu

Research Scientist & Associate Director
Institute for Environmental Genomics
http://daliang.oucreate.com
2016.6 - Scientist at IEG
2012.9 - 2016.5 Postdoc at IEG
ningdaliang@ou.edu

Ying Fu
Lab Technician
Institute for Environmental Genomics
2016 -
yfu@ou.edu

Naijia Xiao, PhD
Research Scientist
Institute for Environmental Genomics
2018.1 - Scientist at IEG
2016.9 - 2017.12 Postdoc at IEG
naijia.xiao@ou.edu

Zheng Shi, PhD
Research Scientist
Institute for Environmental Genomics
2021.9 -
zheng.shi@ou.edu
Adjunct Staff

Gangsheng Wang, PhD
Wuhan University
wanggs@ou.edu

Joy Van Nostrand, PhD
Utah State University
joy.vannostrand@ou.edu

Jialiang Kuang, PhD
South China University of Technology
2017.4 - 2022.3 Postdoc at IEG
kjialiang@ou.edu
Postdoctoral Fellows

Ya Zhang, PhD
from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2018.7 -
Ya.Zhang-1@ou.edu

Yajiao Wang, PhD
from Tsinghua University, China
2019.5 -
yajiao.wang-1@ou.edu

Siyang Jian, PhD
from Tennessee State University
2020.8 -
sjian@ou.edu

Shun Han, PhD
from Huazhong Agricultural University
2020.11 -
2019.11 - 2020.11 Visiting Student at IEG
shunhan@ou.edu

Xuanyu Tao, PhD
from Univeristy of Oklahoma
2020.12 - Postdoc at IEG
2015.8 - 2020.11 PhD student at IEG
xuanyu.tao@ou.edu

Xiaojun Liu, PhD
University of Massachusetts
2021.5 -
xiaojun.liu@ou.edu
Graduate Students

Carolyn Cornell
PhD Student
2016.8 - OU
2019.2 - join IEG
c.r.cornell@ou.edu

Yupeng Fan
PhD Student
2016.8 -
yupeng.fan-1@ou.edu

Jonathan Michael
PhD Student
2017.9 -
Jonathan.P.Michael@ou.edu

Zhifeng Yang
PhD Student
2020.1 -
zhifeng.yang@ou.edu

Qiuting Zhang
PhD Student
2020.1 -
qiuting.zhang@ou.edu