Sijia Yu
Postdoctoral Researcher at MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
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Research Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Postdoctoral Researcher
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Feb 2023 - Present
London, England, United Kingdom
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MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
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Research Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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PHD Student
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Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
London Characterised pre-mRNA splicing regulator RBFOX2 in liver and adipose tissues, in the context of diet-induced obesity and liver cancers, supervised by Dr Santiago Vernia.
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Imperial College London
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Residence Hall Subwarden
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Aug 2018 - Jun 2022
Work in a team of 9 managing Imperial College undergraduate student hall - Wilson House (~400 residents). Primary role involves taking care of the well-being, safety and managing the discipline of the residential students. Regular commitment includes answering phone calls from students when on duty, providing pastoral cares, supervising senior students in hall for events organisation.
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Research Assistant
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Oct 2017 - Sep 2018
London, United Kingdom Performed GC-MS, LC-MS and 1H-NMR spectroscopy based metabolomic analysis on samples such as medium, plasma and cell extract. Contributed to: 1) EU HeCaToS project (Hepatic and Cardiac Toxicity Systems modelling), which aims at developing integrative in silico tools for predicting human liver and heart toxicity. 2) CRUK endometrial cancer project, which aims to investigate blood levels of key metabolic marker.
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Imperial College London
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Undergraduate Student Researcher
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Jul 2014 - Jul 2016
London Designed and developed the original project ZymeDeal with 3 other group members (details can be viewed under the topic Project)
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The Institute of Cancer Research
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United Kingdom
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Research
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700 & Above Employee
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Summer Intern
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Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
London, England, United Kingdom 3-month summer research opportunity studying if/how the over-expression or silence of certain miRNAs would influence the drug sensitivity of various human cancer cells. Supervised by Dr. Chiara Braconi in the Division of Cancer Therapeutics of ICR. Learned and practiced cell biology techniques, such as cell culture, transfection, screening, RT- PCR, etc., as well as some relevant data processing skills.
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Education
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Imperial College London
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Clinical Medicine Research -
Imperial College London
MRes, Cancer Biology -
Imperial College London
Undergraduate, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology