Yvonne Tay
National University of Singapore , Singapore
Biography
Yvonne Tay began her research career in Bing Lim’s lab at the Genome Institute of Singapore and her PhD work led to key insights into the scope and mechanisms of microRNA activity. Subsequently, she has pursued her Post-doctoral training in Pier Paolo Pandolfi’s lab at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center under a Special Fellow award from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and this research led to the discovery that protein-coding transcripts can co-regulate the tumor suppressor PTEN by competing for shared microRNAs. She has recently returned to Singapore to begin her independent research career. She has been awarded the Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship and NUS President’s Assistant Professorship to continue her research into this previously uncharacterized layer of gene regulation.
Abstract
Abstract : A FTH1 gene:pseudogene:microRNA network regulates tumorigenesis in prostate cancer