Zhaolian Lu is a postdoctoral fellow in Hu lab at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Evolutionary Genetics at Saint Louis University under the supervision of Dr Zhenguo Lin. Her PhD was focusing on understanding the regulation and evolution of transcription initiation in yeasts. In Hu Lab, she is interested in applying evolutionary approaches to analyze large-scale lineage tracing data in somatic cells at single cell resolution.