• An invaluable professional and personal opportunity

    Fan Catherine Yang (USA)Postdoc

    I am currently a JSPS research fellow in the Noji Lab where I am trying couple artificial cell division with DNA replication. I received my PhD from the University of Oxford and my thesis was the construction of a reprogrammable chromsome-free cell. Since then I became interested in building artificial cells as one can understand biology by attempting to build it from scratch. Artificial cells can also give us clues as to how life originated on earth. Whilst it would have been easier to stay in the UK, a professor  pointed out to me that it is very important to build an international network and understand different ways of thinking.

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