{"id":4,"date":"2017-10-31T17:55:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/insight\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T03:16:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T03:16:20","slug":"our-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/insight\/our-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/kaverina-lab\/kaverina-lab\/styles\/barista_person_full\/public\/people\/Lab%20Picture%20%282%29.PNG?itok=21ktFqmT\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xiaoyue (Judy) Li<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hometown: Carbondale, IL (the \u201cSolar Eclipse Crossroads of America\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>Major: Biomedical Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Career goals: Graduate school applicant<\/li>\n<li>Research: optical coherence tomography (OCT) with zebrafish retinas (Dr. Yuankai Kenny Tao, Vanderbilt)<\/li>\n<li>Professional Interests: Scientific computing, image processing, optics<\/li>\n<li>Hobbies: watching videos about tiny houses, babysitting, eating Asian bread<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-52\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/vu-my\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2658\/2017\/10\/31125838\/IMG_1492.jpg\" alt=\"khairah\" width=\"200\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nur Khairah Bahirah Safian<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hometown: Terengganu, Malaysia (we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?biw=1280&amp;bih=703&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=1&amp;ei=zAMOWrWTHYWSmQGs97aYCQ&amp;q=Terengganu%2C+Malaysia+beaches&amp;oq=Terengganu%2C+Malaysia+beaches&amp;gs_l=psy-ab.3...4969.5812.0.6116.8.8.0.0.0.0.133.735.6j2.8.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.7.661...0j0i30k1j0i5i30k1j0i8i30k1j0i13k1.0.XpQVQIwwhBY\">pretty beaches<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Major: Biomedical Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Minor: Physics<\/li>\n<li>Career goal: Attend graduate school (Masters), medical imaging technology<\/li>\n<li>Professional Interests: Image processing, health physics<\/li>\n<li>Hobbies: Reading novels, taking walks, cooking, Malay classics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2670\/2017\/10\/IMG_0461.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0461\" width=\"216\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anna Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hometown: Fairhope, Alabama (founders said we had a &#8220;fair hope&#8221; of succeeding)<\/li>\n<li>Major: Biomedical Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Career goals: attend graduate school (PhD\u00a0candidate), conduct biomedical research post-graduation<\/li>\n<li>Research: development of an improved method of single-cell epigenome analysis (Tosato Lab, National Cancer Institute) and characterization of a new metabolic pathway regulating epigenetic alterations in pancreatic cancer metastases (McDonald Lab, VUMC)<\/li>\n<li>Professional Interests: epigenomics, cell metabolism, cancer biology<\/li>\n<li>Hobbies: dancing with the Vanderbilt Philippine Dance Theater, civic engagement, cooking, windowsill herb gardens, petting dogs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2670\/2017\/10\/IMG_0467.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0467\" width=\"216\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sophie Xie<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hometown: Kenmore, Washington (not Kenmore washers)<\/li>\n<li>Major: Biomedical Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Career goals: Medical school<\/li>\n<li>Research: Investigation of the effects of collagen matrix density on endothelial cell metabolism and angiogenic dynamics (Dr. Cynthia Reinhart-King\u2019s lab, Vanderbilt University).<\/li>\n<li>Professional Interests: angiogenesis, cell metabolism, cell mechanics, cancer research<\/li>\n<li>Hobbies: Trying new foods, ice skating, wishing she had a cat, watching short history documentaries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiaoyue (Judy) Li Hometown: Carbondale, IL (the \u201cSolar Eclipse Crossroads of America\u201d) Major: Biomedical Engineering Career goals: Graduate school applicant Research: optical coherence tomography (OCT) with zebrafish retinas (Dr. Yuankai Kenny Tao, Vanderbilt) Professional Interests: Scientific computing, image processing, optics Hobbies: watching videos about tiny houses, babysitting, eating Asian bread Nur Khairah Bahirah Safian Hometown:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7164,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}