Experience

Hi Fidelity Genetics

• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Scientist

  • Apr 2019 - Present

• Research Scientist

  • Mar 2017 - Apr 2019

• Biologist

  • Apr 2016 - Mar 2017

  Leading a team to predict Maize heterosis based on genotype and RNA profile using next-generation sequence technology.



Duke University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Post Doctoral Associate - Mentor: Philip Benfey

  • Jun 2011 - Mar 2017

  Led an interdisciplinary team of 6 people between two universities to develop X-ray CT technology to identify the genetic basis for root behavior in different soils and nutrient conditions, the results of which could be highly beneficial to agricultureDeveloped and implemented research strategies for two teams of scientists to: - Identify rice genes underlying a quantitative trait loci - Identify gene networks that specify Arabidopsis root cells Led an interdisciplinary team of 6 people between two universities to develop X-ray CT technology to identify the genetic basis for root behavior in different soils and nutrient conditions, the results of which could be highly beneficial to agricultureDeveloped and implemented research strategies for two teams of scientists to: - Identify rice genes underlying a quantitative trait loci - Identify gene networks that specify Arabidopsis root cells



University of Illinois Chicago

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Ph.D. Student - Mentor: Jennifer Schmidt

  • Aug 2004 - Aug 2011

  Graduate Research Assistant: Led a team that discovered and validated genomic elements that regulate spatial and temporal expression at the mouse Dlk1 promoter, which could advance diagnoses of multiple human cancers. Studied the function of the imprinted non-coding RNA, Gtl2, during early mouse development. Graduate Research Assistant: Led a team that discovered and validated genomic elements that regulate spatial and temporal expression at the mouse Dlk1 promoter, which could advance diagnoses of multiple human cancers. Studied the function of the imprinted non-coding RNA, Gtl2, during early mouse development.