I am an incoming assistant professor of developmental and cell biology at UC Irvine interested in gene regulatory mechanisms underlying development and cellular reprogramming. Find my lab website at sskimlab.org!

Previously, I was an HHMI-Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow in Joanna Wysocka‘s lab at Stanford, where I studied molecular mechanisms and combinatorial logic of transcription factors using cellular models of development and cancer. My latest work include a paper on the DNA-guided transcription factor cooperativity that shapes the face and limbs, and a review on the cis-regulatory code.

I also explored three-dimensional genome organization as an NSF graduate research fellow in Jay Shendure‘s lab at the University of Washington, as well as epistasis in the evolution of antibiotic resistance as an undergraduate in Roy Kishony’s lab at Harvard.

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