Graduate, 1st year

Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology Program

Rice University, Houston, TX​

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Education

 

• Rice University, Houston, Texas                                                           2017-present

Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology Program

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• Peking University, Beijing, China                                                         2013 - 2017

B.S. in Biosciences

Advisers: Qi Ouyang, Donggen Luo, Ying Luo and Can Xie

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• The High School Affiliated to Renmin University, Beijing, China       2007 - 2013  

Junior high and Senior high 

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Research Experience

 

• Intracellular/surface-displayed protein recruiting platform inspired from cephalopods-derived protein Reflectin  

July 2016 – July 2017

School of Life Sciences, Peking University

Advisor: Dr. Can Xie                                                                                             

 

• Design and test a bio-inspired bilayer decellularized collagen matrix (DCM) as scaffold for islet transplantation             

Feb. 2016 – July 2017

Department of Engineering, Peking University                                                                                       

Advisor: Dr. Ying Luo       

 

•  Sensing amino acids and odors in Drosophila gustation system                                                                                    

Mar. 2015 – Jan. 2016

School of Life Sciences, Peking University     

Advisor: Dr. Donggen Luo                                                                                      

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• Surface Display of Microvirin (Mvn) on E. coli to Mediate Binding towards M. aeruginosa for water decontamination

Dec. 2013 – Oct. 2014

Interdisciplinary, Peking University

Member of Peking iGEM team

Supervisor: Dr. Qi Ouyang           

 

                                             

Selected Awards and Honors

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• ​Leo KoGuan Scholarship, 2016

• Honored undergraduate in Biology, 2016-2017

• Gold Medal in International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition, 2014                                     

• Top 1% in Beijing in China High School Biology Olympiad competition, 2012                                                       

 

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Work Experience 

 

• Volunteer of 2016 International Chronobiology summer school, Aug. 2016

  @IDG/McGOVERN at Peking University, Beijing, China

  • Hosted visiting professors and helped organize banquet and workshops for investigators and graduate students 

  • Audited lectures and discussion corners and wrote a review on animal’s photoperiodism and seasonality, which was included in PKU McGOVERN’s lecture notes. 

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Additional Information

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• Additional Professional and Extracurricular Experiences

  • Keyboard

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• Interests

  • Skateboarding​, Robots, 3-D printing

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• Computer and Language Skills

  • Strong proficiency with MATLAB, Python and C/C++

  • ​Unity3D, the game development platform

  • Native in Mandarin; Fluent in English