Profile

Education:

For my high school I studied at a boarding school in Malaysia. Then in 2012-2016, I went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for my undergraduate degree.
Qualifications:

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Bachelor of Science
Major: Microbiology, Certificate: Environmental Studies
Work History:

I worked as an undergraduate research assistant in a research laboratory. This summer (2019), I worked for the International Programmes at Hertford College as a residential advisor.

About Me:

I am a third year DPhil student at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.
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My name is Jia and I am a third year DPhil student at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. I grew up in Malaysia and I enjoy movies and board games!
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I’m interested in protein diffusion in bacterial cells. The targeted protein is labelled with a fluorescent protein (such as a Green Fluorescent Protein / GFP) so that I can visualise its mobility in the bacterial cytoplasm using a fluorescence microscope.
My Typical Day:

A typical day for me consists mainly of lab work. I am interested in protein dynamics in live bacteria cells so I do hours and hours of fluorescence microscopy in a dark room. if I am not doing experiments in the lab, I’ll be in the office analysing results, discussing my findings with other members of the research group, and read papers.

Jia Khoo