Experience

IDEAYA Biosciences

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Principal Research Scientist

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  South San Francisco, California, United States

• Principal Research Scientist - Protein Sciences, Lead Discovery group

  • Apr 2021 - Jan 2023



Tierra Biosciences

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Scientist, Project leader

  • Jul 2019 - Mar 2021

  Berkeley, CA • Science lead on internal R&D as well as external projects for customers • Developed proof of concept protein purification method for Tierra's Protein-on-demand production platform • Serve as on-hand consultant for protein purification, and specialized assay development • Lead specialized assay development and protein QC/analytics

• Scientist

  • Mar 2017 - Jun 2019

  Berkeley, CA • Supervisor of molecular biology core functions, including DNA design, assembly, and product QC • Successful expression and purification of proteins required for cell free DNA expression. • Developed two eukaryotic cell-free systems.



Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Research Scientist

  • Jun 2014 - Mar 2017

  Berkeley, CA • Investigated the human DNA repair protein, XPG, in numerous repair pathways. Patients with functional loss of XPG have a severe developmental disorder, which results in very early death. • Published a novel role for XPG in homologous recombination repair (HRR), probed interactions of XPG with HRR proteins, and investigated the phenotype of cells lacking XPG. • Obtained funding to investigate the role of the loss of XPG, a partner of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in driving genomic instability and… Show more • Investigated the human DNA repair protein, XPG, in numerous repair pathways. Patients with functional loss of XPG have a severe developmental disorder, which results in very early death. • Published a novel role for XPG in homologous recombination repair (HRR), probed interactions of XPG with HRR proteins, and investigated the phenotype of cells lacking XPG. • Obtained funding to investigate the role of the loss of XPG, a partner of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in driving genomic instability and ovarian cancer. Show less

• Project Scientist

  • 2009 - 2014

  Berkeley, CA

• Ruth Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow

  • 2006 - 2009

  • Investigated the significance of the interaction between XPG and the Werner syndrome protein.



Wright State University and Walther Cancer Center, IUPUI

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • 2003 - 2006

  with Dr. John Turchi