Research scientist
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Chesterfield, Missouri
Yu-Hung is currently a postdoctoral research associate in Dr. Keith Slotkin's lab at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center at St. Louis. Her research projects in Slotkin lab focus on studying the regulation of RNAi gene silencing as well as developing Protein-RNA tethering tool. Yu-Hung earned her Ph.D. in Plant Biology in Dr. Tzung-Fu Hsieh's lab in the Department of Plant and Molecular Biology at North Carolina State University. Her Ph.D. study in Hsieh Lab focused on DME-mediated active DNA demethylation, which is critical for embryo and endosperm development. Yu-Hung’s research of interest is to study the molecular mechanisms of epigenetic regulation, the role of epigenetic variation on phenotypic diversity, and to exploit crop improvement by epigenetic manipulation.