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Science is a hard yet interesting subject to me. I studied plant
biology at Peking University in China and wanted to become a researcher
in biological sciences. At the University of Illinois at Chicago
graduate school, I first studied molecular biology extensively and
then focused on an immunological question on B cell switch recombination
for my PhD thesis research. During my graduate school years, I established
several cell lines as the model systems for the study of inducible
switch recombination. I also found novel recombination activities
for different antibody isotypes. I decided to explore new territory
in neuroscience after graduate school. I became a post-doctoral
research fellow at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. The
neurons in the brain form an elaborated network to compute information
from the environment and output instructions to direct our response
to the stimuli. This neuronal network is determined genetically
by our genes but the environment can also exert strong influence
on the connections. My current work is to investigate how certain
receptors in the brain are affected by naturally occurring hormones
and what the underlying molecular mechanisms are for causing such
changes.
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