Dr. Wenying Shou

Biography

Wenying Shou graduated from Pomona College in 1993, where she double majored in Mathematics and Biology. She then pursued her Master's and Doctorate degrees at the California Institute of Technology, where her Master's research focused on identifying a cell cycle inhibitor in Xenopus egg extracts and studying its biochemical activities. For her Ph.D., she examined the mitotic exit network in Budding yeast (S. cerevisiae) through molecular genetics and biochemistry. In 2001, she began her postdoctoral research initially at Rockefeller University and later at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Centre, both located in New York City. During this time, she engineered a synthetic yeast cooperative community to track evolution and attempted mathematical modeling of community properties. In 2007, she established her lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, where her research style evolved to utilize mathematical modeling as a powerful tool for biological research. In 2021, she moved to University College London (UCL) as part of the Department of Genetics, Evolution, and Environment, and looks forward to contributing to the rich intellectual environment at UCL.

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