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Haiqi Chen
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Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center | Full-time reproductive biologist | Part-time genomics technology developer | Lab website: https://haiqichenlab.github.io/
Celebrating new publication+grant+lab member with a lab movie outing ! 🎥 🍿
September 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Reposted by Haiqi Chen
Single-cell multitargets and mRNA sequencing enable the simultaneous profiling of transcriptome and up to six histone modifications in individual cells
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August 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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I have had the privilege to train many chinese students over many years. They enriched our lives and did great science. Many are still here and contribute to the US scientific enterprise. The push to revoke student visas is cruel and unnecessary. We must push back.
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Rubio says U.S. will 'aggressively' revoke visas for many Chinese students
The announcement to revoke visas is the most drastic move yet to curtail the numbers of international students studying in the U.S.
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May 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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The bipartisan framing of Chinese people as dangerous to the United States has been building up for years and has created this deeply racist and xenophobic opening for the Trump administration.

I stand with my Chinese colleagues and all of our Chinese students. 🧪
Trump administration to crack down on Chinese visas, applicants, Rubio says
Rubio said the State and Homeland Security departments will work to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese students in the United States, “including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Par...
www.washingtonpost.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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I stand firmly with our Chinese colleagues and our Chinese students. This xenophobia must be called out.
The bipartisan framing of Chinese people as dangerous to the United States has been building up for years and has created this deeply racist and xenophobic opening for the Trump administration.

I stand with my Chinese colleagues and all of our Chinese students. 🧪
Trump administration to crack down on Chinese visas, applicants, Rubio says
Rubio said the State and Homeland Security departments will work to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese students in the United States, “including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Par...
www.washingtonpost.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Reposted by Haiqi Chen
It’s a tough time for science so it feels odd to mention positives, but the Wert lab has had some amazing positive funding news come through and we are seeking talented and motivated postdocs! Please share! labs.utsouthwestern.edu/wert-lab
Wert Lab | UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
Located in the Department of Ophthalmology, the Wert laboratory studies the post-mitotic neuronal cells of the retina, particularly the photoreceptor cells. Our goal is to discover and understand the ...
labs.utsouthwestern.edu
May 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
During the tumultuous times, it is important to celebrate small wins in life.

Together with our Gruber Lab friends, we played paintball to celebrate Xin’ incoming baby, Rahil joining the lab, and recent lab publications!
May 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Thrilled to share our latest work in which we built a tool to assay RNA content of various subcellular compartments within native cellular and tissue context! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Subcellular level spatial transcriptomics with PHOTON - Nature Communications
Rajachandran, Xu, and colleagues present PHOTON, a subcellular resolution spatial transcriptomics technology that allows the capturing of RNA information within various subcellular compartments under ...
www.nature.com
May 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Reposted by Haiqi Chen
Recently, we found out that our R01 funded through PAR-22-241 was withdrawn by NIAID as the NIH no longer prioritizes research programs related to DEI. This has been devastating news for our young research group, and we are now trying to scram together for a path forward 🧵1/12
May 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Reposted by Haiqi Chen
How can you use spatial transcriptomics to study spermatogenesis?

This review highlights how this technology is being used to study spermatogenesis by preserving tissue context—enabling researchers to explore spatial gene expression, cellular neighborhoods, and molecular changes in the testis.
April 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Reposted by Haiqi Chen
SRI stands in solidarity with our colleagues at the NIH and CDC.

To our colleagues at NIH and CDC: You are not alone. The scientific and reproductive health communities stand with you.
April 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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🚨 Job alert! 🚨
The Chung Lab @ Yale seeks a motivated, creative postdoc to examine tissue remodeling in health and disease. We study ovarian aging and cardiovascular disease in human samples and animal models. Passionate about single-cell, spatial genomics, machine learning & therapeutics? Join us!
April 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We are looking for research technicians and postdocs. If you’re interested in genomics and/or reproductive biology. Please reach out! jobs.utsouthwestern.edu/job/21454219...
Research Technician II, Chen Lab
Discover Research Technician II, Chen Lab and other Research & Laboratory jobs in Dallas, TX and apply online today!
jobs.utsouthwestern.edu
March 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Reposted by Haiqi Chen
ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE)

If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread.

There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.
a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it
ALT: a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it
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February 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
To celebrate many things (the upcoming holidays and the lab's 2nd bday, Qiqi winning the best trainee talk at the dept retreat, and Shreya getting into med school), we went mini-golfing with our friends from the Grow lab!
November 18, 2023 at 2:32 PM
Our lab had a blast at the departmental retreat today!
October 13, 2023 at 12:46 AM
In my lab, not all ideas turned into projects as some were too out there or speculative.

Today, I share one of the crazy ones - an idea to make a spermbot for targeted drug delivery. Hope it may inspire some future brilliant minds to pursue this topic.

haiqichenlab.github.io/pubpdfs/How_...
October 3, 2023 at 4:33 PM
Hi! I'm passionate about reproductive biology and genetics/genomics. Looking forward to engaging in conversations on gametogenesis, fertility, stem cells, microscopy, single cell and spatial omics! #HiSciSky
September 25, 2023 at 2:53 PM