Meet Michelle Lee

I am a 2nd year Ph.D. student in the Genomics and Computational Biology program at University of Pennsylvania. Before entering university, I had no idea what doing research was and never dreamed about becoming a scientist one day. Now, I successfully graduated from UBC and got into one of the top schools studying Computational Biology and working on cutting-edge projects. In my undergraduate years at UBC, I have done two research projects at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute and presented at various conferences such as Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) at UBC and National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC) at Harvard. I have tried both wet lab research, utilizing various molecular biology techniques to study gene transcriptional regulation, and participated in dry lab work, analyzing large Single-Cell RNA sequencing datasets using R programming. I enjoy doing research because I am discovering something new that no one else in the world understands yet and also I can chase after my own curiosity, proposing possible hypotheses and testing them out myself. Therefore, I wish I can help anyone who wants to do research but does not know where to start first, as well as anyone who has any question about finding research opportunities, applying to scholarships, creating posters or just want to chat about research.