Project: Single Cell Analysis of the Human Pancreas in Type 1 Diabetes, Co-Investigator

►Where are you from originally, and where did you go to school?

Fremont, CA. BS-UC Los Angeles. PhD (current)-UC San Diego

►What is your current position?

Graduate Student

►What is the “Big Picture” of what you study?

I use diabetes genetic data (GWAS for T1D, T2D) and combine it with single cell data (expression, chromatin accessibility) to understand genetic risk mechanisms of diabetes.

►What is your favorite aspect of your research?

In genetics/genomics, most scientists focus on one aspect of data. I get to work with both human genetics (performing GWAS for diabetes) and also single cell epigenomics data.