Yuju Shin Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, California, United States

Foster City, California, United States

Trained in oocyte retrieval, oocyte stripping, pronuclear assessment, oocyte/embryo warming and vitrification, embryo transfer, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), biopsy, cell loading for preimplantation genetic testing

Berkeley, California, United States

Kris Niyogi Lab, UC BerkeleyChlamydomonas reinhardtii and Nannochloropsis oceanica research

Benjamin Blackman Lab, Department Of Plant And Microbial Biology

• Investigate the genetic factors that produce unique photoperiod responses in wild sunflowers• Carried out an independent project and presented important findings during the honors symposium• Trained undergraduate and high school students in a variety of lab techniques• Skills: DNA extraction, agarose gel electrophoresis, dCAPS assay, microsatellite analysis, PCR, restriction digestion, RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, qPCR, gene expression analysis, tissue culture, sterilization, NanoDrop, Geneious, R, Excel

• Teach a lab section of twenty-six undergraduate students explaining key concepts covered in Biology 1AL which range from molecular and cell biology, systems biology, to human biology• Attend weekly three-hour preparatory meetings, make and administer exams, and answer questions throughout the lab period

Mo'Orea, French Polynesia

• Designed and completed independent research on the effects of the lunar cycle and weather on the territorial and predawn crowing behaviors of feral chickens• Analyzed and collected data using statistical analysis and wrote results into a formal scientific paper which was presented at a symposium alongside peers and professors

Wayne Sousa Lab, Department Of Integrative Biology

• Involved in studies researching periodic fire in California’s chaparral shrub vegetation and its role on plants and soil nutrient dynamics• Assisted graduate student in lab soil tests• Skills: nitrogen extraction, bulk density measurement, texture and elemental analysis, field sampling, stable isotope analysis, experimental design

Bachelor Of Science - Bs (Honors), Molecular Environmental Biology

Honors Thesis: The Evolution of Gene Expression and Photoperiodic Flowering in Wild Sunflowers; Advisor: Benjamin Blackman

High School Diploma