Neuroscience & Biomedical Research
I hold a B.Sc. in Biotechnology and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Over the past 8+ years, I have pursued a broad range of research experiences and synergistically combined diverse computational and experimental approaches to address clinical and healthcare challenges from different angles. My resume below:
University of Toronto
PhD Candidate
• I studied how biophysical properties, including ion channels and membrane electrical properties, affect information processing and computations in neurons. In particular, I combined electrophysiology, optogenetics, and computational modeling to investigate neuronal excitability and neural coding in the brain.
Marine Biological Laboratory
• Integrated advanced RNA-seq, electrophysiology, molecular biology, and multi-photon imaging techniques with behavioral studies in C.elegans, fruit fly, squid, zebrafish, and mice.
Research Fellow, Neurobiology
SISSA
Associate Research Fellow
• Used multi-electrode array recordings on behaving rodents to decipher the underlying neural coding mechanisms of tactile perception.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Engineered modern synthetic chemistry to synthesize oligonucleotides together with DNA repair enzymes to recognize and repair lesions in the genome.
Research Intern
Utrecht University
Summer Research Student
• Explored modern methods in structural and molecular biology including cryo-electron microscopy, NMR, mass spectrometry, crystallography, fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy.