Je Won Yang

Graduate student

Je Won joined the lab in 2022 and is investigating how post-transcriptional regulation, such as m6A RNA modifications, may play a role in differential gene expression during human and chimpanzee neurodevelopment. After graduating from Seoul National University in 2020, she developed an interest in RNA biology during her research internship at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology. Alongside her work in RNA biology, she recently initiated a project generating chimeric in vitro 3D somitogenesis models (somitoids) to tackle the question of heterochrony. Aside from the lab, Je Won enjoys baking or playing the oboe in the orchestra.