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Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Cancer Biology

Research summary
Molecular genetic studies of kidney diseases and cancer

Key words
Molecular genetics, kidney diseases, cancer, single cell omics, spatial omics

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Albert H. Kim

Thesis Title: Protein deubiquitination in the brain: Signaling, synapses and syndrome

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Identifying new therapeutic targets of small cell lung cancer

Key words
Lung cancer, DNA damage repair, immunology, drug resistance, genetic screening, translational research, drug development, targeted therapy, precision therapy

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Neurosciences
Cancer Biology

Research summary
Advances the field of NeuroSonics by integrating breakthroughs in neuroscience and ultrasonics to deepen our understanding of brain function and transform the diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases.

Key words
Brain, neuroscience, cancer biology, imaging, ultrasound

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Eduardo A. Groisman

Thesis Title: Evolution and Regulation of Polymyxin B Resistance in Enteric Bacteria

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Meng Wu, PhD

Undergraduate university: China Pharmaceutical University, 2020

Program: Computational Biology

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Patrick Y. Jay

Thesis Title: A rank sum statistics based analytical framework for unbiased hypotheses generation from large gene expression datasets

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD

Undergraduate university: Chang Gung University, 2016

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Lilianna Solnica-Krezel

Thesis Title: Regulation of Early Zebrafish Embryogenesis by Calcium Signaling and Dachsous1b Cadherin

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Joseph D. Dougherty

Thesis Title: MYT1L in the making: functional studies of a novel neurodevelopmental disorder gene