Jeongwoong Yoon (‘Yoon’)
Graduate student (Bioengineering), novice programmer, husband
About (03/06/24)
I am Jeongwoong Yoon, a nerd from South Korea. People call me Yoon.
I always ponder over the meaning of life. Why do we exist? What do we live for? In search of the answer, I reached my own hypothesis: maybe, we live for reproduction.
To test the hypothesis, I am vastly interested in the evolution of reproduction, in particular genetics and neuroscience implicated in reproduction in diverse organisms. At the same time, the data scarcity prevalent in non-model organisms spurred me to work on developing research tools and efficient approaches to study their genes. My research interests fall into the fields of genomics, molecular biology, machine learning, evolutionary biology, agriculture and so on.
At Tohoku, I developed toolkit for transgene delivery and overexpression for marine bivalve cells.
Now at Stanford, I am trying to find an efficient and generalizable workflow to study genetic and cellular networks in less studied organisms, mainly harnessing bioinformatics.
Outside the lab, I enjoy workout, playing the guitar, watching YouTube, coding video games and small software and spending time with my partner.
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Education
2023–Present
Ph.D. (Bioengineering)
Stanford University
2021–2023
M.S. (Agricultural Bioscience)
Tohoku University
2017–2021
B.S. (Applied Bioscience)
Tohoku University
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