About

I am a Research Associate at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and part of the Mayr lab. I am working with Dr. Christine Mayr to investigate how messenger RNAs and their binding proteins compartmentalize the cellular space and establish functional subdomains. I am interested in the functions of RNAs in cellular biochemical reactions and their impact on how cells respond to external stimuli. I am currently looking for faculty positions to start in Fall 2025.

I earned my Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from ETH Zurich in April 2018, advised by Prof. Dr. Yves Barral. Gapped by one year of industrial research experience at the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, I earned my M.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the National Institute of Biological Sciences in 2010. While I was there, I worked with Dr. Bing Zhu to investigate the mechanisms of epigenetic information inheritance over cell division.

News

Upcoming talk: Feb 12th, 2025 Columbia University.
Upcoming talk: Jan 10th, 2025 MSK Cell Biology First in Line Seminar.
Nov 13-14th, 2024 UChicago BSD Rising Stars Seminar.
Nov 4th, 2024 Stanford RNA Medicine Seminar.
Sep 24th, 2024 A wonderful day of RNA at the NYC RNA Symposium. I delivered a talk on functions of mRNA in the cytoplasm.
June 4, 2024The FXR1 network story is accepted to be published at Cell!
May 28-June 2, 2024I attended and delivered a talk at the 2024 RNA society meeting in Edinburgh!
May 24, 2024I updated the revised version of the FXR1 story.
May 2-3, 2024I participated in and spoke at the Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center Annual Retreat!
Mar 29, 2022I participated in and spoke at the 2022 Marie-Josee Kravis Women in Science Endeavor Symposium.
Jan 23, 2022I was awarded the Kravis WiSE Postdoctoral Fellowship.