User:Liuxili

I'm a 4th year graduate student in Peking University and a visiting student in UCSF now. I'm working in Chao Tang's lab in UCSF and will stay there for 1~2 years. Based on our previous model, we predict some properties in budding yeast cell cycle. We want to verify those predictions by experiments. In coupling of quantitative experiments and computational models, we could know better about the robustness and stability of cell cycle. Specifically, I'm working on the irreversibility of G1/S transition in budding yeast. And also we are interested on the threshold of G1/S transition. We will measure it quantitatively in both wild type cell and some mutants, which perturb the stability of G1/S transition. Based on our research, we hope we can find some clues about how to trap cell in G1 phase thus prevent cancer. It's my second year in iGEM. I attended iGEM last year as a major leader in Peking University's team. We had so much fun that summer and won the grand prize finally. The experience recalled all the best memory about science. So I returned this year. I'm Tiffany Saw's buddy in UCSF's iGEM team this year. We try to find a way to anti-silence the heterochromatin DNA. Hope we already make it:) I love the UCSF iGEM team and all the high school students. Ohh, Tiffany's so cute. Ohhhhhhhhh, recently, Chunbo and I gave a talk about the push on push off switch in Synthetic Biology 4.0. The conference's cooooool, and I wish no one hate the talk:)