Experience

  1. IMPRS PhD Researcher

    German Cancer Consortium DKTK, German Cancer Research Center DKFZ, Germany

    Responsibilities include:

    • Working on functional analysis of epigenetic factor in control of cancer cell signaling by multi-omics integration.
    • Experienced with CRISPR editing, epigenetics, transcriptional experiments and data analysis, including RNA-Seq, CUT&RUN, CUT&Tag, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, Hi-C.
    • Implementing and optimizing CRISPR editing and RNA-seq data analysis workflow for the lab.

  2. Contributing Editor and Science writer

    The Investigator Taiwan, Taiwan

    Responsibilities include:

    • Contributing Editor and writer about recent biomedical research. Portfolio: investigator.tw/author/id003/
    • As former editor-in-chief (Year 2017), leading the editorial team, performed strategic planning and project management on editorial workflow.

  3. Co-founder

    Chang Gung University International Genetically Machine iGEM Team, CGU_Taiwan

    Responsibilities include:

    • Co-founder who organized the first iGEM team in Chang Gung University. Built an interdisciplinary team to take part the worldwide synthetic biology competition.
    • Wrote proposal, secured team grant funding, did team recruitment and experiments design for the team. The results of RNA toehold switch and engineered G protein-coupled receptor on yeast as biosensor were presented at 2015 iGEM Giant Jamboree in Boston.
    • As team advisor in year 2016

Education

  1. PhD Biology

    Max Planck IMPRS-IEM PhD Program & University of Freiburg
    Thesis on contribution of mixed lineage leukemias (MLLs) histone methyltransferase complex in TGF-beta signaling. Supervised by Prof Dr Marc Timmers.
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  2. MS Biomedical Sciences

    Chang Gung University
    • Master of Science (MS), Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Division of Microbiology
    • Worked in oral cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer research in Yu-Sun Chang lab.
    • Discovered miRNA regulation of DNA editing enzyme APOBEC3A in APOBEC3B-deletion germline polymorphism.

  3. BSc Biomedical Sciences

    Chang Gung University

    GPA: 3.9/4.0

    • Bachelor of Science (BS), College of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences
    • Worked on gene expression profiling and R in genomics core lab, Molecular Medicine Research Center, supervised by Hua-Chien Chen PhD
    • First Place Winner, Annual Research Poster Contest and Undergraduate Academic Excellence Award (Ranked top 5% in class 6 out of 8 semesters)
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Molecular Biology
Epigenetics
Data Analysis
Hobbies
Hiking
Writing
Traveling
Awards
FASEB TGF-ß Superfamily Conference Travel Award
FASEB TGF-ß Superfamily Conference ∙ July 2022
Taiwan Overseas Community Affair Council Graduate Scholarship Award
Overseas Community Affair Council, Taiwan ∙ January 2017
Scholarship worth NTD120K (USD4,500) granted for excellent academic performance among top 2% overseas Chinese students in Taiwan.
First Place Winner, Annual Research Poster Contest
Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, Chang Gung University ∙ May 2016
Granted for excellent undergraduate thesis research, poster and oral presentation: “Integrative profiling and analysis of Epstein-Barr virus-encoded microRNAs” in the academic year 2016.
Chang Gung Youth Award
College of Medicine, Chang Gung University ∙ April 2016
Granted by College of Medicine, Chang Gung University as one of the most outstanding students in the college in 2015/2016 academic year.
Gold Award in Popular Science Writing
Taiwan Genomics Medicine and Biomarker Society ∙ November 2014
Granted for pop-science essay writing about genomics medicine.
Languages
95%
English
100%
Chinese
60%
Malay
40%
Indonesian
20%
German