Biography

Haiqi Chen is an Assistant Professor at the Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

He received a Ph.D. in Molecular Endocrinology through a joint program between the University of Hong Kong and the Population Council at the Rockefeller University in 2017. In 2018, he began his postdoctoral training at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and later on started his own lab at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in late 2021.

Haiqi is a recipient of the Lalor Foundation Fellowship in Reproductive Health and the 2024 Rising Star Award in Reproductive Biology from the Society for the Study of Reproduction. 

The Chen Lab studies gene regulation using the mammalian male reproductive organ as a model system.Towards this goal, two directions of the lab are: (1) developing next-generation spatial and functional genomics technologies broadly applicable to studying gene regulation/function in various biological systems in situ by combining techniques such as gene editing, high-resolution single-molecule imaging, and next-generation sequencing; (2) applying these cutting-edge technologies, along with machine learning and other data science approaches to study chromatin remodeling and tissue microenvironment, and how they impact gene regulation in the context of mammalian reproduction.

Visit the Chen Lab Website. 

Research Interest

  • Development of spatial and functional genomics technologies
  • Mammalian spermatogenesis and male fertility
  • Transgenerational inheritance of genetic and epigenetic information

Publications

Featured Publications LegendFeatured Publications

Cell type-specific inference of differential expression in spatial transcriptomics.
Cable DM, Murray E, Shanmugam V, Zhang S, Zou LS, Diao M, Chen H, Macosko EZ, Irizarry RA, Chen F, Nat Methods 2022 Sep 19 9 1076-1087
High-resolution Slide-seqV2 spatial transcriptomics enables discovery of disease-specific cell neighborhoods and pathways.
Marshall JL, Noel T, Wang QS, Chen H, Murray E, Subramanian A, Vernon KA, Bazua-Valenti S, Liguori K, Keller K, Stickels RR, McBean B, Heneghan RM, Weins A, Macosko EZ, Chen F, Greka A, iScience 2022 Apr 25 4 104097
In vivo hypermutation and continuous evolution.
Molina RS, Rix G, Mengiste AA, Alvarez B, Seo D, Chen H, Hurtado J, Zhang Q, Donato García-García J, Heins ZJ, Almhjell PJ, Arnold FH, Khalil AS, Hanson AD, Dueber JE, Schaffer DV, Chen F, Kim S, Ángel Fernández L, Shoulders MD, Liu CC, Nat Rev Methods Primers 2022 2
Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveal Disrupted Kidney Filter Cell-Cell Interactions after Early and Selective Podocyte Injury.
Clark AR, Marshall J, Zhou Y, Montesinos MS, Chen H, Nguyen L, Chen F, Greka A, Am J Pathol 2021 Nov
Spermiation: Insights from Studies on the Adjudin Model.
Chen H, Jiang Y, Mruk DD, Cheng CY, Adv Exp Med Biol 2021 1288 241-254

Honors & Awards

  • The Society for the Study of Reproduction Rising Star Award
    (2023)
  • The Society for the Study of Reproduction Early/Mid-career Researcher Travel Award
    (2020)
  • Lalor Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
    (2019)
  • Male Contraceptive Initiative Travel Award
    (2019)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

  • Society for the Study of Reproduction (2019)