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2026
Invited talk at the Autophagy Gordon Research Conference
Spoke in Ventura, CA on how STING is suppressed by an ATG9A-ATG13-ATG101-dependent Golgi-to-lysosome degradation pathway that restrains chronic inflammation.
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January 2026
VDAC isoforms paper in JBC
Our co-first-author study showing that the three mammalian VDAC isoforms distinctly regulate mitochondrial function, the proteome, and cell metabolism is out in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Read it.
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August 2025
Parkinson’s drug candidates aren’t what they seem
Our Science Advances paper found that two reported PINK1/Parkin activators boost mitophagy by mildly poisoning mitochondria rather than by activating the pathway directly. Covered by Caltech News, Medical Xpress, and the Chen Institute. Read the paper.
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June 2025
Back to the NIH
Now as a postdoc, continuing my work in Richard Youle’s lab at NINDS.
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June 2025
PhD, Caltech
Graduated with a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics after defending my thesis, Mechanisms of Pharmacological and Cellular Regulators of Mitophagy.
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April 2025
VDAC2 paper out in Science Advances
Our study of how VDAC2’s conformational plasticity controls its interactions with cytosolic proteins is published. Read it.
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2023
Student Bioenergeticist Award
Recognized by the Biophysical Society for contributions to mitochondrial biophysics, with an award talk: “The mitochondrial VDAC isoforms: one molecule at a time.”
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December 2020
Featured by Colgate
Colgate profiled how my undergraduate research, from Singapore to the NIH, led into my PhD work on mitophagy. Read the story.
04 · Golgi apparatus
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The Golgi packages cargo into vesicles and ships it out to the rest of the cell. Here’s what’s shipping.