About the Speaker:

Education:

• Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 2000-2003
• Ph.D., Yale University, 2000
• MS, University of Pittsburgh, 1997
• BS, University of Science and Technology of China, 1994

Awards and Honors:

• SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2020
• NIH/NIGMS Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, 2019
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, 2013
• National Academies Keck Future Initiatives in Synthetic Biology Grant Award, 2010