My undergraduate P.I. Professor Sung-Hou Kim and my research mentor, his wife, Dr. Rosalind Kim. Rosie was instrumental in getting me into MIT, from the frustrating beginning trying to train me, to the middle listening to my whining, and up until the very end when she actually got me into MIT. For all that I owe her my most sincere gratitude.
Visit Professor Sung-hou Kim's web page in Berkeley.
I'm doing my PhD thesis in Professor Jamie Cate's laboratory at the Whitehead Institute. The lab studies the protein synthesis machinery of the cell (called ribosome) by X-ray crystallography. My project deals with the structural basis of mRNA decoding, that is how the ribosome is able to facilitate template-directed protein synthesis. The cool thing about crystallography is that you get to do a lot of things: molecular biology, chemistry, physics, and computer science.


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