Lisa Wei

I'm an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, pursuing a degree in honours biophysics.

Throughout my studies, I have been deeply involved in research. In particular, I am interested in developing high-throughput computational and experimental methods to study complex biological processes such as cellular fate decisions and regulatory networks. In my undergrad, under the supervision of Dr. Connie Eaves, I studied the regulation of signaling networks in various compartments of hematopoetic stem cells proceeding growth factor stimulation by utilizing a combination of experimental methods, mathematical modeling and computational analysis of protein phosphorylation data.

I have also worked in Dr. Joerg Gsponer's group at the Centre for High Throughput Biology at UBC investigating the kinetics of protein aggregation via molecular dynamics simulations and the construction of probabilistic models. Currently I am on an 8-month placement at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Germany in the Sandoghdar Division, nano-quantum-optics group, working towards determining the quantum efficiency of single nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond nanocrystals, previously believed to be stable single-photon emitters, using high-resolution confocal microscopy and mathematical simulations. I hope to apply the diverse skills in computational sciences and optics I have acquired throughout these internships to further my research in systems/quantitative biology.