Search for people, departments, or email addresses.
she, her, herself, they, them, themself
Graduate Studies Division
Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology Department
Postdoctoral scholar
Staff
Sinsheimer Laboratories
204
No Mailstop
Cindy received a B.S. in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior from UC Davis in 2018. As an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Hwai-Jong Cheng's lab, they became interested in the impact of environmental stressors and genetics on disease. Inspired by UCSC's rich history of combining cutting-edge sequencing technologies with bioinformatics to answer biological questions, Cindy studied the interplay of chemical stressors and recurrent mutations on cancer potential in an immortalized lung cell line in the lab of Dr. Angela Brooks, where they completed their PhD in 2024. They now continue this research area in Dr. Olena Vaske's lab as a postdoctoral scholar, working with Treehouse and the Childhood Cancer Data Lab to analyze single-cell RNA-seq signatures in pediatric cancers.
Wet lab: Third generation (Nanopore) library prep & sequencing; Validation of RNA-seq predictions through qRT-PCR, Western blot, immunofluorescent staining; Human cell culture & microplate assay design/execution; Automated microplate wash & dispense machinery operation; Drug treatment dose-response curve generation; Protein & nucleic acid extraction
Dry lab: Short- and long-read mRNA-seq QC and transcriptome analysis (gene expression & splicing); Analysis of primary sample sequence data from public databases; Statistical analysis & plotting of transcriptome results, single-cell fluorescent data
Cindy is interested in synthesizing the results of diverse sequencing technologies and transcriptomic analyses (e.g. short-read sequencing, long-read sequencing, protein-binding, splicing analysis, differential gene expression analysis) to create a multidimensional understanding of biological pathways altered in cancer. From their research, they hope to identify potential biomarkers for clinically relevant phenotypes such as disease progression and drug resistance.
UC Santa Cruz Chemical Screening Center Seed Grant, 2023
FASEB RNA Processing in Cancer, 2nd place short talk award, 2023
QB3-UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Graduate Fellowship, 2018-2019
Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship, University of California Davis, College of Biological Sciences, 2017
This campus directory is the property of the University of California at Santa Cruz. To protect the privacy of individuals listed herein, in accordance with the State of California Information Practices Act, this directory may not be used, rented, distributed, or sold for commercial purposes. For more details, please see the university guidelines for assuring privacy of personal information in mailing lists and telephone directories. If you have any questions please contact the ITS Support Center.
