People

Show-Ling Shyng, Ph.D., Principal investigator

Email: shyngs@ohsu.edu

Tel: 503-494-2694

Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry

Oregon Health and Science University

L334, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road

Portland OR 97239

Show-Ling received her B.S. in Zoology from National Taiwan University in 1984, and

Ph.D. in Neurobiology with Dr. Mika Salpeter from Cornell University in 1990. She came to OHSU in 1999 as Assistant Scientist of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Toxicology. In 2010, she joined the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of OHSU, which became the Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry in 2019. Outside the lab, she enjoys hiking, backpacking, reading, cooking, and catching up with her three grown children.

Mentoring philosophy

Camden Driggers Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow

Email: driggerc@ohsu.edu

Camden received his PhD from Oregon State University and join the lab in 2020 to study K_ATP channel structures.

Assmaa Elsheikh. M.S., Graduate Student

Email: elsheikh@ohsu.edu

Assmaa received her M.D. and M.S. degrees from Tanta University in Egypt. She came to the lab in 2019 as a short-term foreign scholar and then obtained an Egyptian government scholarship to pursue her PhD in PBMS at OHSU. She formally joined the lab in 2020 and is interested in K_ATP channelopathies and drug discovery.

Bruce Patton Ph.D., Senior Scientist

Email: pattonb@ohsu.edu

Bruce received his B.S. in Biochemistry from Brandeis University in1984, and Ph.D. in Neurobiology from California Institute of Technology in 1991. He was a faculty of OHSU from 1999-2014. He was recruited to the lab in 2018 to study K_ATP channel trafficking regulation in β-cells and help supervise students and postdocs.

Zhongying Yang, M.A.S., Senior Research Associate and Lab manager

Email: yangz@ohsu.edu

Zhongying received her bachelor and master degrees from Nanjing University of Technology. She has 20 years of experience working at OHSU. She joined the Shyng lab in 2016 and is indispensable for everything that we do.

Yi-Yang (Jane) Kuo, Ph.D.

Email: kuoy@ohsu.edu

Yi-Ying (Jane) received her PhD from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. She came to the lab in 2022 as an exchange student for a year. After she returned home and got her degree, she rejoined the lab in 2024 to study K_ATP channels.

Past Shyng lab members

Graduate Students

Etienne Cartier
Yu-Wen Lin
Emily Pratt
Jeremy Bushman
Fang Wang
Gregory Martin
Veronica Cochrane

Research Assistants

John Harwood
Adam Mougey
Taiping Jia
Anne Weinsoft
Shu Shen
Elizabeth Weisiger
Satoko Shimamura
Chia-Wei Lin
Jillene Casey
Malini Kochhar
Joaquin Espinoza-Goodman
Joel Gay
Paul Tewson
Erik Olson
Sara Bates
Emily Rex
John (Jack) Allen

Postdoctoral Fellows/Research Associates

Grit Taschenberger
Feifei Yan
Qing Zhou
Cathrin Bruederle
Pei-Chun Chen
Prasanna Devaraneni
Yelena Kryukova
Yi Wu
Dale Fortin
Amy Servid
Bala Kandasamy
Laura Innes
Min Woo Sung

Undergrad/High School Students

Sara Haidar
Josh Eaton
Adrienne Tozier de la Poterie
Marijn Schouton
Laura Thomas
Molly Leonard
Gisela Abigail Gonzales
Forrest Kwong
Kian Patton
Minhtam Tran