  I grew up in Taiwan, and moved to California when I was 15.  After finishing my bachelor’s degree here in Molecular and Cell Biology department at UC Berkeley, the highly ranked Berkeley research, awesome California weather (I have never lived in a place that snows so far in my life), and diverse culture make me stay for graduate school..  5th year Endocrinology. Ph.D. Candidate. Wally Wang Lab.  movies and TV shows, photography, explore different cuisines and restaurants, visit metropolitan cities, watch Buster Posey play baseball! |
 |
Awards:
Dissertation Award, Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, Fellowship 2009-2011
Publications
Koliwad S.K., Kuo T., Shipp L.E., Gray N.E., Backhed F., So A.Y., Farese R.V. Jr. and Wang J.C., Angiopoietin-like 4 (ANGPTL4, fasting-induced adipose factor) is a direct glucocorticoid receptor target and participates in glucocorticoid-regulated triglyceride metabolism. J. Biol. Chem. 284 (38), 25593-25601 (2009)
Munson C, Huisken J, Bit-Avragim N, Kuo T., Dong PD, Ober EA, Verkade H, Abdelilah-Seyfried S, and Stainier DY. Regulation of Neurocoel Morphogenesis by Pard6gammab. Dev. Bio. 2008.