Xiaoran Guo

Education

Life Sciences, B.S., Lanzhou University, China 2015

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Ph.D., UCSB Expected 2021

Bio

Xiaoran grew up in Inner Mongolia, China. She received her B.S. degree from Lanzhou University in Gansu province, China. During Xiaoran's undergraduate studies, she got the chance to visit the United States and ended up completing her 3rd year of college at Texas Tech University and subsequently spend the last year of college at UC, Berkeley as a research intern in Prof. Rebecca Heald's lab.

Xiaoran found research intriguing yet challenging, so she decided to pursue a Ph.D. degree in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at UCSB. Xiaoran joined Prof. Denise Montell's lab and studies collective cell on cell migration using Drosophila oogenesis as a model.

She is interested in investigating how cells integrate physical and chemical cues from the environment to select a path. Part of her thesis is to uncover the molecular responses within cells that promote their migratory behavior. Xiaoran has mentored six undergraduate researchers at UCSB, and welcomes all kinds of discussions to help facilitate undergraduate student success.