Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley / Berkeley, CA
The goal of my project is to perform a genome-wide identification of regulatory non-canonical transcripts in budding yeast, using natural genetic variation between outbred individuals. I received my BS and MS in chemistry from Seoul National University, Korea, and an MS in electrical engineering and PhD in chemistry from Stanford University.
My graduate research was on developing a novel mass spectrometer, called Hadamard Transform Time-of-Flight, which has higher spectral scan rate with applications in real-time solution kinetics.
For postdoctoral research, I have made a big switch to genetics and genomics, where I use next-generation sequencing to profile the 3’ UTRs of RNA. In the future, I hope to combine my interdisciplinary expertise to study the regulation of mRNA and protein post-processing, and the effects of their misregulation on human disease. Outside of the lab, I like to play tennis and drink coffee.