We recently welcomed two new graduate students to our lab:
Kyoung Park earned a Master of Science in Biology from Yonsei University, South Korea, and previously served as a Research Technician in our lab from 2018 to 2022. She played a key role in starting the lab and collaborated closely with Dr. Jianlong Wang’s lab at Columbia University on the OCT4 protein interaction network in naive and primed hPSCs, identifying pluripotent-state-specific interactions with distinct subunits of the BAF chromatin remodeling complex. She enrolled in the Developmental, Regenerative, and Stem Cell Biology Program in 2022 and re-joined our lab as a graduate student in March 2023.
Richard Yin is a member of the Developmental, Regenerative, and Stem Cell Biology Program and joined the Theunissen lab in August 2023. He earned his B.S. from the University of Toronto in 2022. He started his research journey as a volunteer in Dr. Phedias Diamandis’ lab, studying potential therapeutic targets in glioblastoma tumour microenvironments. As an undergraduate researcher under Dr. Jennifer A. Mitchell, he investigated the evolutionary role of human-specific KLF4 enhancer candidates in pluripotent stem cells. His passion for stem cell research led him to pursue a Ph.D. at WashU. Outside the lab, he enjoys cooking, rock-climbing, gaming, and movies.
Welcome Richard and welcome back Kyoung!
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